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  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

traditional products are transforming into smart connected products and ecosystem platforms at a rate much faster than most organizations think. Schaeffer andSovie show how this reinvention is made possible: by AI and digital... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, risk taking, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Health/?view=usa&ci=9780199734610 A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations Authors:Lakshmi Ramarajan and David A. Thomas Publication:Chap. 41 in The Oxford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145499 Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions? Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani, and Saurabh Mishra Publication:In The Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

evaluation of submitted ideas. Methodology/Approach: The contest held in a hospital cardiac center invited all clinicians and support staff (n = 1,400) to participate. We used the 27-item Learning Organization Survey to measure staff... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harvard Business School Case 409-107 Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

Friendster from maintaining its leadership position. As such, allows for integration of organization and strategy in an entrepreneurial setting, and should be taught with LinkedIn (A) to facilitate cross-case comparisons. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

supporting country organizations in Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. If completed, it would eventually extend to encompass Abraham's travels to and from Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. With the endorsement of the U.N.'s... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed, and the competitive position that in-house agencies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

controlling for financial performance. The likelihood of demotion in this organization is also sensitive to nonfinancial performance on the dimension of service quality, while the probability of exit is primarily sensitive to financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace