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21 Aug 2012
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Rank-Order Tournaments Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti Abstract Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance. Empirical View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Introduction – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical... View Details

December 1998
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Inxight: Incubating a Xerox Technology Spinout

Xerox has established a new spinoff that utilizes software technology developed at its PARC research facility. This spinoff, Inxight Software, is formulating its plans to commercialize PARC's technology via an OEM component business model. View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Business Subsidiaries; Organizational Structure; Software

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Playing Cupid makes us happy

03 Aug 2011
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Permasteelisa to be sold to Japan's JS Group

25 Apr 2022
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What Other CEOs Can Learn from Elon Musk’s Aggressive, Unorthodox Twitter Takeover

13 Dec 2019
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How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

25 Oct 2018
HBS Seminar

Fanyin Zheng, Columbia University

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Christine is interested in how people make decisions about the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. Her research explores how people use visual cues in a face to infer the inner workings of another's mind. View Details

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Supporting a dynamic community MBA Experience MBA students focus on health care through industry-related courses, extracurricular activities, and recruiting opportunities. Faculty & Research Faculty collaborate to... View Details

11 Nov 2015
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Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

Keywords: by Danielle Li; Health; Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Individual Effectiveness

By: Frances X. Frei

This research investigates how to create the conditions for individuals to thrive. The work is guided by the observation that individauls and organizations have the opportunity to vastly enhance individual effectiveness. View Details

Keywords: Individual; Effective Leadership In Turbulaent Times

09 Jun 2021
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How the Retail Workforce Has Changed for Good

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

January 2008
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Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh

Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds. View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Profit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior

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