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19 Jun 2015
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Kids of working moms earn more, take better care of the family: study

20 May 2016
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How Retailers & Consumers Benefit from MAP Policy Enforcement

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

08 Oct 2018
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Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

27 Oct 2016
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Public Programs Encourage Entrepreneurship

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09 Oct 2019
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For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2008
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Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams

By: A. Edmondson and Kate Roloff

We review research on psychological safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Improvement; Learning; Diversity

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WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004. As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

04 Apr 2022
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Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

realize as a typical citizen as you're going about your daily life.” A resource for COVID researchers Even though the tracker is no longer updated live, the detailed database could serve as a great resource for a growing number of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in creation, getting their hands dusty in the digital dirt,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Teaching Interests

Power and Influence, Work and Organizations, Social Movements and Organizations, Qualitative Research Methods, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Social Enterprise

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26 Jul 2021
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The Billionaire Space Race

21 Jun 2019
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The Business of Yoga

F. Warren McFarlan

Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

addition of poisonous substances to sweets and the coloring of foods for the purpose of concealing damage or inferiority. This spurred government-funded research on food-dye safety. In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture certified... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2016
Book

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

By: Bharat Anand

Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range of businesses around the world, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy

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Anand, Bharat. The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change. New York: Random House, 2016.

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