Collective - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal. The War on Error: A Hospital Field Manual by W.T. Subalusky (AMP... View Details

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

ensure that the excesses of the 2000s aren't repeated. "Shadow banks"—the non-bank entities such as money market funds, hedge funds, and insurance companies that provide banking-like services—still need more regulatory oversight, given their View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

study about the Genzyme Center—the first building in the nation to receive a LEED Platinum rating.) Toffel and Simcoe collected data on 735 California cities from 2001 to 2008, including LEED registrations, construction starts, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

having to shift around old inventory, and finance would be able to free up capital that had been tied up in inventory. Mattel Canada used collective conversations so effectively that it transformed its division from Mattel's least... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Casey Gerald

by a collection of extraordinary witnesses in the community, including my grandmother. My parents were sort of out of my life by the time I was in middle school, which was a typical experience for a kid in my neighborhood and... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

current system thwarted union organizing? A union election is supposed to be the expression of the employees’ desires to bargain collectively and choose their own representatives. Yet, the law allows employers to require employees to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

consistent assessment, this article provides a framework to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of compliance programs. I present empirical models that use data collected from compliance initiatives—including whistleblower hotlines,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

write. Using the keyword "work" plus either "women" or "gender," the researchers collected and analyzed several hundred media articles between 1991 and 2009. (Articles mentioning BigAC were eliminated to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

the effects of ethnic ties on the aggregate volume of trade or the effects of ethnic ties on foreign direct investment (FDI) at the country level. In this paper, we add to the large and important collection of literature on the subject by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

section. They collect only five categories of consumer demographic data: age, sex, income, geography and e-mail. And yet they have been able to garner 70 percent premiums for their demographically targeted adverting. Knight Ridder has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

researched for this book reveal considerable diversity in the types of businesses and social sector organizations involved and in their forms of collaboration. Each of the alliances that we visit in the subsequent chapters has distinctive characteristics, yet their... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

DM: To date, Brix's company has raised more than 6.5 million dollars from organizations like the US Department of Energy and the US Army to pursue this idea. The company currently has a prototype—or "cell"—which turns carbon dioxide View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed brick-and-mortar retailers to... View Details