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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
with key players from the frontlines of digital change, The Content Trap aims to reorient strategy and offers lessons for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals trying to figure out what to do next. Companies that flourish in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
government employees, whether they would maintain a connection to the local community," Ashraf says. "At the same time, they wanted to recruit the health workers who would do the best work." “I think we've deeply underestimated the desire... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
Finnish-American artist and an engineer father, a Midwesterner, and an accomplished engineer in her own right. This personalization alone could help get others past their simplistic thinking about her. And if she can genuinely connect her... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55323 Harvard Business School Case 119-020 LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged) LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
precipitates joblessness, which leads to more addiction and disorder—the quintessential vicious cycle. The Kabul of the pre-1970s Soviet onslaught was the Paris of Central Asia, successful in agriculture, tourism and hospitality. Post-war Kabul of the future could be... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
alliances are built. By motivations, we mean the conscious values and explicit purposes that initially drive individuals and organizations to explore the possibility of working across sectors. It is vital that each partner have clarity... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
awareness. In this paper, we review research on both bounded ethicality and bounded awareness and connect the two areas to highlight the challenges of encouraging managers and leaders to notice and act to stop unethical conduct. We close... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
"What UIDAI is creating is a road, a road that connects every individual to the state," Nilekani said in the case. "How each one of us uses that road, how far we travel along it, is up to each... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
when they radically restructured their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The new CBA instituted a uniform cap (as well as a floor) on team payrolls. It also set maximums and minimums for individual contracts and declared many more... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
approach and delivery to better fit with other individuals or situations; similarly, there's untapped potential in being able to establish electronic connections with consumers in ways that are not... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Although I will describe research on networks at both the organizational and the individual levels, I shall focus on the organization level. In addition, in the interest of brevity, I will emphasize horizontal relationships among... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward development of "ubiquitous, high... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
however, a catch: they tended to move from firms with lower rates of misconduct to firms with higher rates. “It seems like there is some sorting going on, with some firms more tolerant of misconduct than others.” In other words, while View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
increasing connectedness and the impact of our actions in one place on the situation in another. "We cannot deal without understanding the connections we're making," said Stevenson. "You may want to look at these four... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Specifically, Martin Edic points out that "Much of global air business travel, for example, is unnecessary ... (with) broadband connections combined with free VoIP software." Necessary behaviors can be fostered by incentives as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
financial goals while simultaneously evolving channels to be in tune with the changing market environment. That's why the role is best performed by that individual or team of individuals who have the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne