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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=4045 Colorblindness and Diversity: Conflicting Goals in Decisions Influenced by Race Authors:Michael I. Norton, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga, and John M.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2015
- Article
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is focused on providing avenues... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J., and P. Devereaux Jennings. "Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene." Special Issue on Review of the Literature on Organizations and Natural Environment: From the Past to the Future edited by Stephanie Bertels and Frances Bowen. Organization & Environment 28, no. 1 (March 2015): 8–31.
- Spring 2014
- Article
Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company
By: Andrew Knauer and George Serafeim
Faced with a large percentage of investors that chase short-term returns, companies could benefit by attracting investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Asset Management; Long-term Investing; Short-termism; Sustainability; Integrated Reporting; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Pharmaceuticals; Leadership; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Finance; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Knauer, Andrew, and George Serafeim. "Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 26, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 57–64.
- 2012
- Chapter
Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization
By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
What does it cost to build a great society? More
pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society?
Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years
ago, investments in America’s communities have
spurred those questions. Today we face a society
more unequal than... View Details
Andrews, Nancy O., and Nicolas P. Retsinas. "Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization." In Investing in What Works for America's Communities: Essays on People, Place & Purpose, edited by Nancy O. Andrews, David J. Erickson, Ian J. Galloway, and Ellen S. Seidman, 407–419. San Francisco, CA: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2012.
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
negotiator who wants to be fair from the start ensure that his or her counterpart will be reasonable as well? The authors propose the final-offer arbitration challenge, which leverages an approach first applied in labor negotiations in the 1960s. You can employ this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2015
- Case
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design
By: Ryan W. Buell and Andrew Otazo
The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru
Buell, Ryan W., and Andrew Otazo. "IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 615-703, December 2015.
- March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Supplement
From "BIG" Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In August 2023, Raviv Zoller, CEO of ICL Group, discussed his upcoming business trip to St. Louis with Eduard Croitoru, VP of ICL Corporate Initiatives, to commemorate the construction of ICL's new $400 million advanced manufacturing facility. In preparation for the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Agribusiness; Accounting; Communication; Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Machinery and Machining; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Globalization; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Battery Industry; Israel; United States; China
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 424-043, March 2024. (Revised April 2024.)
- April 2013
- Article
An fMRI Investigation of Racial Paralysis
By: Michael I. Norton, Malia F. Mason, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga and Rebecca Dyer
We explore the existence and underlying neural mechanism of a new norm endorsed by both black and white Americans for managing interracial interactions: "racial paralysis," the tendency to opt out of decisions involving members of different races. We show that people... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Race; Judgments; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Characteristics; United States
Norton, Michael I., Malia F. Mason, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga, and Rebecca Dyer. "An fMRI Investigation of Racial Paralysis." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8, no. 4 (April 2013): 387–393.
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing information yourself. Ask the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2011
- Article
Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate." Organization & Environment 24, no. 1 (March 2011): 3–33. (Winner of the 2014 Organization & Environment Best Paper Award.)
- 2012
- Book
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
By: Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution... View Details
Bansal, Pratima, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
emotion regulation-mainly suppression and reappraisal-will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally charged contexts and that this effect will be mediated by the decision maker's decreased deontological inclinations. In Study 1, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Winter 2022
- Article
Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities
By: Eric Budish, Hannah Kettler, Scott Duke Kominers, Erik Osland, Canice Prendergast and Andrew A. Torkelson
By January 2022, the COVAX international vaccine collaboration had allocated over a billion vaccines to over 140 countries. We describe and review the allocation process chosen, which reflected both an objective of equitably distributing vaccines across the world and... View Details
Keywords: Vaccines; Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Distribution; Supply Chain; Equality and Inequality
Budish, Eric, Hannah Kettler, Scott Duke Kominers, Erik Osland, Canice Prendergast, and Andrew A. Torkelson. "Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 38, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 941–974.
- 2010
- Article
Hiring for Strength, Hiring for Weakness: Evidence of Internal Strategic Fit from the NFL
By: Andrew Hill
Firms may hire senior managers to shore up a weakness or to build on a strength. Using evidence on the hiring of NFL head coaches, this paper finds that teams that hire for strength outperform teams that hire for weakness. View Details
Hill, Andrew. "Hiring for Strength, Hiring for Weakness: Evidence of Internal Strategic Fit from the NFL." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2010).
- 2022
- Chapter
Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture
By: Nicholas Poggioli and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flight is technologically and culturally central to academic life. Academia's flyout culture is built on a set of shared beliefs and values about the importance of flying to being an academic. But flight also generates a large proportion of academia’s carbon emissions,... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Air Transportation; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Higher Education; Education Industry
Poggioli, Nicholas, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture." Chap. 10 in Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl and Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte, 237–268. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
paid forward in kind, greed was paid forward more than generosity. This asymmetry was driven by negative affect, such that a positive affect intervention disrupted the tendency to pay greed forward. Implications for models of generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract This paper provides evidence that market conditions matter for organization design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. We embed an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne