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- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
question when he said: “There is a danger. The concept of trust itself is dynamic and culturally bound Strong cultures can reduce the need for a conversation about trust because the need for trust only manifests when there is no cultural congruence and the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The more View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching with imperfectly transferable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
stimulated by different ideas and perspectives. Importantly, these ideas do not necessarily come from the network members who are culturally different from you. Chua's experimental research found that cultural heterogeneity induced... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
the conventional financial system and the real economy. Publisher's link: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.2.213 May 2015 Journal of Public Economics De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to negative discussions about sexism, bigotry, and injustice. "Talking about and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
assessing creditworthiness, which are favored by larger banks. Costs of underwriting small-business lending are also high due to heterogeneity of small businesses and the lack of a secondary market. View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
“There’s enough heterogeneity in people’s interests that you can learn from their approaches and simultaneously have your presumptions challenged,” he reports. Research Fanele is currently investigating two distinct research questions,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
category," Sadun says. "The reality is that IT is a huge, heterogeneous set of technologies." Similarly, when examining issues such as organization and productivity, industry and academic studies historically tend to treat... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
heterogeneity within each BRIC. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-083.pdf Innovating at the World's Crossroads: How Multicultural Networks Promote Creativity Author:Roy Y. J. Chua Abstract This research examines the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental clients. “This created View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges that many other retailers don’t. There is quite a bit of... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
and corporate finance (particularly financial intermediation). I’m currently engaged in research on both fronts: the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneity in labor market institutions across the Eurozone, and the causes and... View Details
- Web
What Happens When Company Tweets Get Political | Working Knowledge
Republican-sounding speech stayed constant or, if anything, decreased toward the end. And third, when we look at stock returns around these partisan corporate statements, we see that they tend to be followed by negative abnormal stock returns. That said, we also see a... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits than withdrawals benefit most from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that predicts when information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel