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- 01 Jan 2009
- Conference Presentation
Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category: Modern Indian Art
By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
city council for funding to meet their community’s needs. Over time, all these experiences have helped quiet the voices in my head and convince me I am “good enough” the way I am. Gregory K. Tanaka is the author and editor of Systemic Collapse and Renewal: How Race and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- Conference Presentation
Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category: Modern Indian Art
By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
- 20 Jul 2022
- Podcast
MOOC to graduate degree: What the 2U, edX merger means for higher ed and skills building
Edtech firm 2U's acquisition of edX, the Harvard-MIT nonprofit education venture, has the potential to advance online higher-ed and broaden access. But there are many moving parts and interested parties. 2U co-founder and CEO, Chip View Details
- July 2022
- Article
What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition
By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile
Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Transition; Life Narrative; Construal Level Theory; Global Construal; Quotidian Construal; Meanings Of Work And Retirement; Retirement; Transition; Perspective
Steiner, Jeff, and Teresa M. Amabile. "What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition." Art. 104137. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 171 (July 2022).
- 01 Jan 2009
- Conference Presentation
Defining Fashion: The Role of the Media in Constructing the Meaning of the Fashion Industry in India
By: Mukti Khaire
- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #3: The Relationship Between Bimatrix and Extensive-Form Games and the Meaning of "Strategy"
By: Dennis A. Yao
Discusses extensive-form games and relates them to bimatrix games. View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Cash Really Mean Trash? An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Retailer Price Promotions on Household Food Waste
By: Arjen van Lin, Aylin Aydinli, Marco Bertini, Erica van Herpen and Julia von Schuckmann
- January–February 2019
- Article
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
By: Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim
We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Purpose; Employee Motivation; Belief Systems; Corporate Performance; Human Capital; Middle Management; Culture; Corporate Culture; Meaning; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness
Gartenberg, Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim. "Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance." Organization Science 30, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 1–18.
- 1983
- Chapter
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable." In Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, edited by Zvi Bodie and John B. Shoven. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. (Reprinted in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume I, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000.)
- October 9, 2020
- Editorial
‘Strategic Clarity’ Won't Solve the United States' Taiwan Dilemma: An Open Commitment to Defend Taiwan Won't Mean Much Unless the U.S. Has the Certain Capacity to Do So.
By: Andy Zelleke
Zelleke, Andy. "‘Strategic Clarity’ Won't Solve the United States' Taiwan Dilemma: An Open Commitment to Defend Taiwan Won't Mean Much Unless the U.S. Has the Certain Capacity to Do So." The Diplomat (October 9, 2020).
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
participating—and a lot of them do—group rituals can still be effective, says Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Despite the fact that they think the thing is ridiculous, it can over time start to View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz