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  • September 16, 2022
  • Article

A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Job Mobility; Social Networks; Social Ties; Networks; Personal Development and Career
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Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development

By: Michael Beer
A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are... View Details
Keywords: Consultant; Process; Systems; Silence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Learning; Management Teams
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  • November 2008
  • Article

Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • April 2006
  • Case

Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Seattle
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    Six Myths of Product Development

    Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details

      Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

      From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast... View Details

        How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?

        Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
        • 31 Aug 2021
        • Book

        Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

        pernicious effects that power has." Sharing some of their power with their employees, for example by giving them more autonomy or allowing them to contribute to the decision-making process, can actually lead to better results: higher morale, productivity, and earnings,... View Details
        Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
        • 28 Jun 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

        that.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/joecicak] What steps did your organization take to weather the pandemic? Share your observations in the comments below. View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • 24 May 2021
        • Op-Ed

        Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

        COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
        Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
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        Bloomberg download limits

        number of securities in the download and the number and type of variables for each security.  If you see the following in Excel after downloading results, you have reached one of these limits: View Details
        • 16 Jul 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

        Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
        • 29 Mar 2022
        • Book

        5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

        can be rich in resources, providing both financial backing and mentoring, the authors say. “If you are in a society that has relatively few safety nets, both financial and other types of safety nets, then doing it within the construct of... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 06 Feb 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

        secretive companies. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Tricia Gregg is an independent researcher. [Image: Chuck Bigger / Alamy Stock Photo] Related... View Details
        Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
        • 26 Jun 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

        During the tsunami disaster, the key mindset of executives was: We have to empathize with others. And companies ought to do the same thing now, during the current crisis, empathizing with those who are suffering and trying to figure out how to help.” About the View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • 28 Apr 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

        To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz
        • Web

        Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

        School. He is the author of over 150 case studies on starting and managing entrepreneurial companies. He co-authored New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, a textbook that is used at over 100 graduate business schools. He is also a... View Details
        • 02 Jun 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: June 2, 2009

        technology, file sharing has not undermined the incentives of authors to produce new works. We argue that the effect of file sharing has been muted for three reasons: First, the cannibalization of sales that is due to file sharing is more... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 11 Jan 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

        decision,” Koning says. “Empowering other people to come up with ideas and test them without interfering in how they’re selected is huge, and it’s incredibly difficult to do, because it changes a lot of the paradigm around management.” About the View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz