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  • 2011
  • Book

Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World

By: Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania and Mark R. Kramer
Do More Than Give provides a blueprint for individuals, philanthropists, and foundation leaders to increase their impact. Based on Forces for Good, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how the six practices of high-impact nonprofits apply to donors... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

"There is a very strong emotional response to the lack of fairness, irrespective of the right rational decision," says Wasynczuk.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States

Deals with the coming of the mechanized textile industry to the United States, and with it, the nation's first factories. Considers the introduction of small spinning mills in Rhode Island, and the appearance of large integrated spinning and weaving mills in... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business History; Production; Industry Growth; Manufacturing Industry; Rhode Island; Massachusetts
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  • 09 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

pre-hiring interview records, the authors found no correlation between any specific demographic or personality traits among those who opted in or out of mentoring. They did find that those who opted out... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Piece of the Action

office space; telephone, fax, and e-mail lines; and even a place to stay. With links to an extensive network of key players in the Valley, the CRC will also help researchers... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • May 2015
  • Article

Review and Summary of Research on the Embodied Effects of Expansive (vs. Contractive) Nonverbal Displays

By: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Andy J. Yap
In this comment we list the 33 published experiments based on 2,521 participants demonstrating the embodied effects of expansive versus contractive nonverbal postures. We discuss a new addition to this list that found an embodied effect of nonverbal expansiveness on... View Details
Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Research
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  • 08 Apr 2013
  • News

Ray Lane, Hewlett-Packard, and the State of Corporate Governance

  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

culture, won’t even scratch the surface of the performance problem.” As Jerry put it, “My experience with fear based management was that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative

By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Performance Evaluation; Programs; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

base rate of just under 8 cents is about a quarter of what used to be the market norm. Both Go-Jek and Grab defend these discounts and View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have over 20 mothers on campus. While we still have a long way to go to make our business school classrooms, board rooms, and executive leadership teams representative of their constituents – including mothers – we are hopeful that this... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager 'interpersonal authority' over employees (in a world with differing priors). The paper derives such interpersonal authority as... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Boundaries; Theory
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  • 2022
  • Book

Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

By: Ranjay Gulati
This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
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  • 09 Oct 2019
  • News

The Benefits of Framing Culture as a Management System

  • December 2012
  • Article

Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney

By: Rakesh Khurana, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef and Yongxiang Wang
We estimate the market valuation of personal ties to Richard Cheney. Our proxies for personal ties are based on corporate board linkages that are prevalent in the network sociology literature. We consider a number of distinct political and personal events that either... View Details
Keywords: Event Analysis; Political Economy; Corruption; Networks; United States
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  • 04 Feb 2020
  • Video

Ratan Naval Tata

Ratan Naval Tata, former Chair of Tata Group in India, assesses the base of the pyramid market and the need to respect the dignity of those consumers.
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  • July–September 2012
  • Article

The (Un)Hidden Turmoil of Language in Global Collaboration

By: Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine D. Cramton
Companies are increasingly relying on a lingua franca, or common language (usually English), to facilitate cross-border collaboration. Despite the numerous benefits of a lingua franca, our research reveals myriad challenges that disrupt collaboration and contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Loss; Spoken Communication; Performance Productivity; Research; Global Range; Problems and Challenges; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

such highly used software can lead to security issues existing in the code base for more than 20 years, as was the case with PuTTY SSH. From hobby to mainstream Over View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization

By: Walter A. Friedman
Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the largest private economic forecasting agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economics; Business History; Newsletters; Personal Development and Career; United States
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  • 23 Apr 2018
  • News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

logistics of running a university based in a remote location. “It takes over two hours to drive to the city of San José when we need to meet with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg