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      • August 1984 (Revised March 1989)
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      Direct, Personal Leadership

      By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Richard R. Ellsworth
      Argues that to be effective leaders, general managers must focus on substance, not process, and aggressively combat the forces that can lead to the politicization of the organization. Examines the leader's direct role in setting and communicating goals, managing the... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes
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      Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Richard R. Ellsworth. "Direct, Personal Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-107, August 1984. (Revised March 1989.)
      • 1970
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      Foreign Investment in Joint Ventures: Some Effects of Government Policies in Less Developed Countries

      By: L. T. Wells Jr.
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Developing Countries and Economies
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      Wells, L. T., Jr. "Foreign Investment in Joint Ventures: Some Effects of Government Policies in Less Developed Countries." Economic Development Report, Harvard University, Development Advisory Service, Cambridge, January 1970.
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      Capital flows in a Globalized Economy: The Role of Policies and Institutions (joint with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We describe the patterns of international capital flows in the period 1970-2000. We then examine the determinants of capital flows and capital flow volatility during this period. We find that institutional quality is an important determinant of capital flows.... View Details
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      Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making

      By: Jerry R. Green
      Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
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      Corporate Governance

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang

      The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

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      Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details
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      Cross-Sector Partnering

      By: James E. Austin
      This on-going research project is examining the motivations, dynamics, and effectiveness determinants of partnering between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government entities. The first major output of the research focusing on nonprofits and businesses was... View Details
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      Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

      By: Michael Beer

      Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

      1. Capacity of the... View Details
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      Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details
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      How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details
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      International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... View Details
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      Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein

      Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections).  This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

      The course is divided into five modules:View Details

      Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Communication
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      Managing Networked Businesses

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
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      Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein

      To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

      Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management
      • 2015
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      Marketing Reading: Digital Marketing

      By: Sunil Gupta and Joseph Davin
      Digital technology has changed how consumers search for information, interact with each other, and buy products. The popularization of these technologies has made it possible for companies to have a better understanding of their customers' decision journey and... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Buzz Marketing; Internet Marketing; Marketing; Marketing Management; Social Media; Social Networks; Viral Marketing; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Digital; Internet; Marketing Channels; Marketing Reference Programs; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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      Gupta, Sunil, and Joseph Davin. "Marketing Reading: Digital Marketing." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8224, 2015.
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      MBA Required Curriculum Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)

      By: Rakesh Khurana

      This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

      The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:

      • The determinants of group... View Details
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      Overview

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein
      I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
      Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
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      By: Eva Ascarza
      Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Retention; Churn; Field Experiments
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      By: Mattias E. Fibiger
      Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

      Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
      Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
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      By: Chiara Farronato
      Based on a broad interest in the economics of innovation and the Internet, Professor Farronato concentrates her research on the evolution of e-commerce and peer-to-peer online platforms, including platform adoption, economies of scale, and drivers of heterogeneous... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Antitrust; Network Effects; E-Commerce Strategy
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