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30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

in introducing a fabric into the Company’s athletic garments that, when stretched, became transparent. He went on to explain on Bloomberg TV that “Some women’s bodies don’t work for the pants.” Employee behaviors began reflecting this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2011
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How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

the mind and body work is thought provoking. For example, in Everything is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us, sociologist Duncan Watts' thesis is that, in predicting outcomes and acting accordingly, we give far... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

approaches, despite the very real tensions between them. Reconciling Difference And Similarity One would think companies that try to exploit differences would not find it easy to exploit similarities as well. And indeed, a large body of... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

we are not talking about executives who are known to have committed serious assaults or other potential criminal acts. No board that I am personally aware of would consider hiring those people. The growing body of senior executives who’ve... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Overview

Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

let up on himself, either, continuing to work and play tennis even as his body failed. "He loved tennis, but it was a constant struggle for him," remembers his son Peter. "We held his memorial service at the Belmont Tennis... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

1988
Book

The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley

By: A. E. Roth

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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

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Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Welfare or Wellbeing; Body of Literature; Market Platforms

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1992
Working Paper

A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Deposit Insurance and Other Guarantees

By: Zvi Bodie and R. Merton

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July 2001 (Revised September 2001)
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Definitions and Typologies of the Family Business

By: John A. Davis

Introduces students to the wide variety of family business definitions in literature today. Also reviews prominent typologies of family business systems. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Body of Literature; System

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