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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the family pup); space to create organizational... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
organizational values and business ethics, Paine focused on U.S. companies engaged in business principally at home. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. standards and values... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
asks, "When organizations follow maximum profit/wealth, why not individuals?" Mark Porter posed the question in a different way, saying, "It seems that we have somewhat of a paradox if we are able to determine a threshold of 'just enough' in our personal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
recognize that expressing dissent can be very difficult and uncomfortable for lower-level managers and employees. Therefore, leaders cannot wait for dissent to come to them; they must actively go seek it out in their organizations. In short, they must View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
management of tensions caused by the simultaneous need for such things as short-term and long-term performance, the exploitation of existing ideas and the search for new ones, and the staffing and motivation of leadership teams with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
and shareholders have the ability to put the heat on the company if it is not performing. These represent rather substantial changes in the Japanese organizational model. The leading companies—the Sonys—are rapidly moving in these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
online,” Bashir told Charlie Rose. In her typical relentless fashion, she searched for the perfect partner with the technology savvy to build the company. She teamed up with Oskar Bruening, an MIT graduate with vast technology... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria has coauthored or coedited... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
post-graduation work role. “I spent every Monday afternoon at Baker Library searching for jobs.” Then two serendipitous events came together. Just as his roommate extolled the virtues of the fellowship opportunity that would take him to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global impact.” However, that long View Details
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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational culture change?” It's also important for companies to understand individual... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept of Corporate Strategy, Irwin: Homewood), attempts to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
not, how should we modify ideas about management in general? While the work that Tarun and I have done focuses on strategy, the same set of challenges exists in other parts of management thinking, too, such as organizational behavior,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
especially in B2B companies. Q: What do you mean by "performance pricing," and how does it benefit a company? Ben Shapiro: Collectively, we have worked with hundreds of companies on integrating pricing, strategy, and View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
this area in a variety of disciplines—economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy—in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In eleven varied papers, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne