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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
mobility, female genital cutting, and anti-abortion attitudes. Will women stray when men are away? Becker, who works at the intersection of anthropology and economics, finds evidence for the theory that such customs and were designed to... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
that empirical research has used social enterprise largely as a context for theory development, rather than deductively testing, and thus building upon, existing theories. The latter pattern is due largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
The model requires a high level of trust. "In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other means." We can put some numbers on this. In a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
ethnicity, ability, and other facets of identity. The organization Intersectional Environmentalism builds from this theory to argue that intersectional environmentalism means that “social [and] environmental... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-078797093X.html The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
since the Middle Ages by the rise and ongoing progress of modern science. The development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth century, for example, and of the science of genetics in the twentieth, have gone into the formation... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
disruptive innovation theory Assess new opportunities and potential threats Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs Acquire techniques for executive-level strategy development Organize for... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
their fundraising goals on Kickstarter. But during periods of higher anxiety, minorities experience an 8.2 percent lower success rate. Where and why it’s happening Meanwhile, Kerr and his co-authors considered—then knocked down— several different View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
day, and it's obvious where companies are going to choose to build and invest. Many exposed Western firms will have to exit certain businesses, redeploy resources to more productive ventures, and shut down large chunks of capacity - which... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52111/selling-to-many-cultures-within-the-us/ Building Intercultural Trust at the Negotiating Table Authors:Sujin Jang and Roy Y.J. Chua Publication:In Negotiation Excellence:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
positive theory of integrity that has no normative content and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance-into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
knowledge inflows into the multinational subsidiary, the literature is rooted in how subsidiaries inherit knowledge from the headquarters (HQ). In this paper we take the first step to liberate the construct of “subsidiary knowledge inheritance” from its umbilical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
of the theory you can imagine but never anything practical." Upon graduation, Hoa returned to Hanoi to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Press Center. There, she caught the eye of personnel from Harvard's Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
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
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
unlocking ESG value. Key Themes: ESG and activism may in fact be a source of financial and impact alpha; however, the path from theory to implementation is still being tested. Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest... View Details