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- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harvard Business School Case 409-107 Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
seeking by the managers. However, this increase in market size will lead to the entry of more firms, which calls for more decentralized decision making. Under reasonable conditions, the aggregate effect leads to a U-shaped relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
Record: A Step Toward Increasing Value for the Patient By: Carberry, Kathleen, Zachary Landman, Michelle Xie, Thomas W. Feeley, John Henderson, and Charles Fraser Jr. Abstract—ient-centered outcomes measurement provides healthcare View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on iTunes. This allows music collections... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
is the right organization to operate the blockchain project. What challenges will the project face? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-101 WeWork WeWork co-founder Miguel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
past few years, the pro-Malay policy remains in place. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers, such as its bureaucracy, media, and civil society, and figure out if there are checks and balances in place. Managers must also determine how View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608054-PDF-ENG Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework F. Asís Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 109-079 Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
repertoire of personal qualities, including qualities that run counter to conventionally masculine scripts. Our findings point to the mutability of masculine identity as a social status achievement and to how organizations can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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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 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
both organizations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708-417 PublicationsLeading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations Authors:Heather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace