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01 Sep 2023
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Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

04 Oct 2021
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How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

themselves. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Interview has been edited for clarity and length. About the Author Christina Pazzanese is a staff writer at the Harvard Gazette. [Image: iStockphoto/Julia Garan] What... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

of media, action on these fronts and others are crucial and there is policy in place to support and incentivize it. Responsibility for working for EJ falls to every business, and the partnership of business, government, and community will be key in these efforts. ABOUT... View Details

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. About the Author Christina Pazzanese is a staff writer at the Harvard Gazette. [Image: iStockphoto/dcdr] Why do you think records are so appealing to so many? Share your thoughts in the... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24

Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public-e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking

2020
Book

Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine

Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy

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June 2008
Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives

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16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

high was never truly equitable. The actual percentage of female candidates on the site, about 42 percent, was never proportionately represented in the top rankings. Can incentives help? For that reason, the paper’s authors say,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

well, like the commercial aircraft manufacturers or the motion picture industry. Willy C. Shih (@WillyShih_atHBS) is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. About the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Meeting Past Program Resources Be an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job What if there was a way to pair the stability of a day job with the excitement and upside of entrepreneurship? Using proven strategies and a range of case studies, View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

academic paper repository, with more than 100,000 authors and 500,000 registered users who have the opportunity to view or download every paper on the site. For each paper, SSRN creates a web page that includes statistics on how many... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less effective as a means of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

challenge of serving customers with different preferences and behaviors when that model is stretched across multiple markets." As a starting point in their research, the authors focused on the organizational decision to franchise or not... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

they spend any more money or do any additional work. The only thing we are suggesting is that they change their algorithm.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: RyanJLane ] Related Reading The Profit... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

About the Authors Colleen Ammerman is the director of the HBS Gender Initiative. Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

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Tsedal Neeley | About

and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really... View Details

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

change mitigation (as travel is diminished and virtual work infrastructures expand), risk assessment and emergency responses in hazardous environments, and large-scale biosafety, allowing our economic infrastructure to grow stronger as it overcomes these challenging... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

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