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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
heavily on other, usually smaller, companies or external individuals to conduct many of their activities. What part of your iPad is made by Apple? Is the Verizon customer representative you're talking with really part of that company? How... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
the conduct of their suppliers. But little is known about what influences auditors' ability to identify and report poor supplier conduct. We find that individual supply chain auditors' monitoring practices are shaped by social factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
103, no. 4 (2012) Abstract When people seek to impress others, they often do so by highlighting individual achievements. Despite the intuitive appeal of this strategy, we demonstrate that people often prefer potential rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and, second, that simply assigning a group of people to work together makes them a team. We point out that assigning a team to carry out a job may not always be the best way. Sometimes it's more effective to let a gifted individual do it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
explaining entrepreneurial phenomena by discussing three primary questions for entrepreneurship researchers: Under what conditions are individuals likely to found new organizations? What are key influences on the kinds of organizations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
enhance both individual and organizational outcomes compared to traditional executive education formats. Action-learning programs also enhance our teaching and research efforts. Building on these results and experiences, we suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
vast number of published decisions, the thorough classification of the subject [by instructors], published case books, the elements in the typical law case, and the development of general principles from the discussion of individual... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
maximize joint industry profits. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-045.pdf From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns Authors:David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius Abstract Negotiation scholars typically take the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
belief that one can talk about errors without risk of punishment—and problem-solving efficacy—the belief that the organization will support employees' system improvement efforts—were positively correlated with frontline system improvement (FLSI). Surprisingly, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
development through individual contracts, the comprehensive platform would be free to doctors and pharma alike and financed via an aggressive fundraising strategy and through the sale of the prescription data collected on the app. Barry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
a lowest-common-denominator way. An organization's definition of "good governance" should be explicit and agreed to by all, not left to individual interpretation. Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
space that supermarkets will have on hand. This will manifest itself not just in the number of excess stores in a chain's network that will need to close but, more importantly, the excess space in every individual location that a chain... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences in experience across the entire team) and intrapersonal team diversity (i.e., whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
competition, customers are better off "letting a thousand flowers bloom," fostering fierce competition which results in a de facto standard if users prefer compatibility over individual fit, or a split market, if fit is more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Periodical:Research on Emotions in Organizations. Vol. 3, edited by N. M. Ashkanasy, W. J. Zerbe and C. E. J. Härtel. Amsterdam: Elsevier, provisionally accepted Abstract Teams' emotional skills can be more than the sum of their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
Fitbit’s suite of products allowed users to track the number of steps taken, calories burned, and heart rate activity. Fitbit devices were marketed to individual consumers as well as corporate wellness programs and employers. Though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne