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- February 2021
- Article
How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice
By: Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci
Amid growing calls for transparency and social and environmental responsibility, companies are employing different strategies to improve consumer perceptions of their brands. Some pursue internal initiatives that reduce their negative social or environmental impacts... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Operational Transparency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Behavior; Perception
Buell, Ryan W., and Basak Kalkanci. "How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice." Management Science 67, no. 2 (February 2021): 932–950.
- March 1981
- Article
Characteristics and External Orientation of Boundary Spanning Individuals
By: Michael Tushman and Thomas Scanlan
Tushman, Michael, and Thomas Scanlan. "Characteristics and External Orientation of Boundary Spanning Individuals." Academy of Management Journal 24, no. 1 (March 1981): 83–98.
- July 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Milcom: An External Partnership to Commercialize Military Technologies
Describes a promising start-up company that seeks partnerships with large military defense contractors to commercialize technology for civilian applications. View Details
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Anthony Massaro. "Milcom: An External Partnership to Commercialize Military Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 602-006, July 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- 2016
- Article
Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
This paper investigates how external mobility influences the gender compensation gap for job switching executives. Using proprietary data for 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, we find job switching narrows the gender gap by 45%, from 11% to 6%. We... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?" Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2016).
- February 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation
By: Antonio Davila
Nick Sugimoto, CEO of Honda Innovations—the open innovation organization of Honda, has to decide how to extend his organization’s approach to innovation across the world. Honda Innovations dates back to 2000 when Honda created Honda Research Institute in Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Radical Innovation; Corporate Venturing; Corporate Innovation; Organization Structure; Management Control; Business Units; Disruption; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Auto Industry; San Francisco; Japan
Davila, Antonio. "Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation." Harvard Business School Case 119-062, February 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- June 2002
- Article
External Monitoring of Property Appraisal Estimates and Information Asymmetry
By: Karl A Muller III and Edward J. Riedl
Muller, Karl A., III, and Edward J. Riedl. "External Monitoring of Property Appraisal Estimates and Information Asymmetry." Journal of Accounting Research 40, no. 3 (June 2002): 865–881.
- August 2006
- Article
Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Miki Mitsunari
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Miki Mitsunari. "Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?" Journal of Regulatory Economics 30, no. 2 (August 2006): 141–158.
- January–February 2023
- Article
External Interfaces and Internal Processes: Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures
By: Alicia DeSantola, Ranjay Gulati and Pavel Zhelyazkov
We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In contrast to existing literature, which has presumed a uniform march toward... View Details
Keywords: Market Positioning; Professionalization; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure
DeSantola, Alicia, Ranjay Gulati, and Pavel Zhelyazkov. "External Interfaces and Internal Processes: Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures." Organization Science 34, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 1–23.
- September 2000
- Background Note
Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Service Operations; For-Profit Firms; Power and Influence; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-008, September 2000.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment
By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market; Financial Analysts; Information; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Governance
Li, Zengquan, T.J. Wong, and Gwen Yu. "Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-135, June 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- July–August 2021
- Article
Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes
By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
Conti, Annamaria, and Maria P. Roche. "Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes." Organization Science 32, no. 4 (July–August 2021): 965–986.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs
By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano
This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details
Ling, Xi, Wesley R. Hartmann, and Tomomichi Amano. "Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 23, 2024.)
- July–August 2022
- Article
Generalized Trust, External Sourcing, and Firm Performance in Economic Downturns
By: Ranjay Gulati and Bart S. Vanneste
Gulati, Ranjay, and Bart S. Vanneste. "Generalized Trust, External Sourcing, and Firm Performance in Economic Downturns." Organization Science 33, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 1599–1619.
- October 2006
- Article
Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets
By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Beth Bechky. "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets." Academy of Management Journal 49, no. 5 (October 2006): 918–941.
- March 2020
- Article
Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate... View Details
Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?" Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 3 (March 2020): 602–628.
- 2004
- Article
Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics
By: R. Croson, A. Gomes, K. L. McGinn and M. Nöth
Croson, R., A. Gomes, K. L. McGinn, and M. Nöth. "Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics." Review of Finance 8, no. 4 (2004): 481–514.
- 2004
- Working Paper
Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies Externalities and Dynamics
By: Rachel Croson, Armando Gomes, Kathleen L. McGinn and Markus Nöth
- April–May 2019
- Article
Disclosure Incentives When Competing Firms Have Common Ownership
By: Jihwon Park, Jalal Sani, Nemit Shroff and Hal D. White
This paper examines whether common ownership – i.e., instances where investors simultaneously own significant stakes in competing firms – affects voluntary disclosure. We argue that common ownership (i) reduces proprietary cost concerns of disclosure, and (ii)... View Details
Park, Jihwon, Jalal Sani, Nemit Shroff, and Hal D. White. "Disclosure Incentives When Competing Firms Have Common Ownership." Journal of Accounting & Economics 67, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2019): 387–415.
- 05 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice
Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci
- November 2022
- Supplement
What were the main external barriers to entering the e-bike market
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "What were the main external barriers to entering the e-bike market." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 723-854, November 2022.