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  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

can’t just jump on the bandwagon. They would have to do the hard work of culture change themselves.” About the Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/skynesher] What is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

the satire publication The Onion headlined, "Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn't Be In Poor People's Grocery Carts." This study's results could have implications for everything from social and economic policymaking to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working paper stress that this shift is not necessarily negative, noting... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

to headquarters. “The organizational design ensured that decision-making authority remained firmly at the top of the FBI,” the researchers write. In the final stages of the FBI’s transformation, the paper explains, Mueller focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 27 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 27

    Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets? One view argues that limited... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

    Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf
    • 14 Nov 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera & Karim R. Lakhani
    • 01 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Zhi Huang; Banking
    • May–June 2025
    • Article

    What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey
    Psychological safety—a shared belief among team members that it’s OK to speak up with candor—has become a popular concept. However, as its popularity has grown, so too have misconceptions about it. Such misunderstandings can lead to frustration among leaders and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Employees; Interpersonal Communication
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    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    The Other Diversity Dividend

    By: Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
    Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance—especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Decision Making; Finance; Performance Improvement; Venture Capital
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    • May 2016
    • Article

    'Both/And' Leadership

    By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne Lewis and Michael Tushman
    Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes
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    • December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
    • Case

    Brasil Foods

    By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
    In mid-2011, the management of Brasil Foods, a leading Brazilian branded foods producer and protein exporter, is evaluating strategies for international and domestic growth. The team has just received approval from Brazil's antitrust authorities to complete the merger... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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    • 2011
    • Chapter

    Innovations in Governance

    By: Raymond Fisman and Eric Werker
    In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Investment; Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention
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    • August 2008
    • Case

    The Chubb Corporation in China

    By: Li Jin, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Aldo Sesia
    The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese government, as part of its "reform and open" policy invited a delegation of Chubb... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Insurance Industry; China; United States
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
    In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption
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    • 2008
    • Book

    Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy

    By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
    Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically.... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Marketing; Practice; Welfare
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      Innovations in Governance

      In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details