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- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
wave” of immigration from Vietnam that the AHA triggered, the researchers discovered a fortunate coincidence: This particular group of people migrated just as the US Census created its in-depth Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
century's most dynamic and important economies. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-015 Clare College: Seeking Investment Opportunity in a Financial Crisis No... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China
By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray
We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China
Jiang, Crystal, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Murray. "Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China." Journal of International Business Studies 42, no. 9 (December 2011): 1150–1173. (Equal Authorship Among All Authors.)
- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
offers new insight into the fluid dynamics in the growing and important space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, known as DEI. “It can make you feel like it's objectifying the people who are involved or exploiting them. It can lead to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2007
- Working Paper
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship
By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
Bendersky, Corinne, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-044, December 2007.
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Sinofsky, as it encounters and overcomes many of these same challenges. Sinofsky's blog posts to his team provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the One Strategy approach works in practice. Sean Silverthorne: How did you get the idea for... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
other journalists. Analyzing the responses and drawing upon decades of academic research on institutional dynamics and careers, they detail how journalists have reconciled the moral calling of their profession with the collapse and... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Web
Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate New Dynamic Teaming Professor Amy Edmondson Acquire the tools,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
political participation and bolstered economic conditions for Black communities. But the law also galvanized "racially conservative" white voters, stoking their fear of losing power and influence, a dynamic that lingers today, write... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how Schultz and his team saved Starbucks from near collapse, by both executing a deep,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis; Expansion; Organizational Culture; Management Teams; Managerial Roles
Mikes, Anette. "From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management." Accounting, Organizations and Society 36, nos. 4-5 (May–July 2011): 226–245.
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
automated. The second scenario may be more positive for US firms. Businesses will have easier access to high-skilled workers, who often bring new ideas and increase dynamism as well as innovation. In addition, a more flexible quota... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52104 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
potential to create social good. Investing for Impact Club Over 100 students are engaged in the student-run, student-led club. From speaker series to career treks to the MINT Competition, MBA students are dynamically exploring and... View Details
- May 2014
- Article
Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat
By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel
Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound... View Details
Hackel, Leor M., Christine E. Looser, and Jay J. Van Bavel. "Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 52 (May 2014): 15–23.
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Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated experiences with a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
critical functions are part of the competitive and organizational strategy of any team or organization. Adopting value creation as the scorekeeping measure does nothing to relieve us of the responsibility to do all these things and more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen