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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
to shape the use of commercial activity by social venture founders, our findings contribute to research on hybrid organizations in the social sector, communities as a context for the enactment of gender, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research
By: Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
Though workers face a series of critical challenges in contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business. In this chapter, we argue that prioritizing the rights and well-being of workers is a core dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Employees; Well-being; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Social Issues
Yen, Julie, Julie Battilana, and Emilie Aguirre. "Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research." Chap. 11 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 189–214. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We argue, from an extensive literature review, that in the vast majority of research settings, biases in alternative expected-return proxies (ERPs) are irrelevant. Therefore, in most settings, the choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research By: Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Article
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 6, no. 2 (2012): 63–149.
- Research Summary
Overview
My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Extractive Industries; Luxury; Gold; Institutional Change; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Hybrid Organizations; Governance; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pollution and Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Diversification; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Latin America; Europe
- Research Summary
Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
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
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
Leaders have fretted since COVID-19 lockdowns that collaboration and innovation might suffer when teammates interact less. New research points to an emerging concern four years on, as organizations settle into remote, hybrid, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
companies that offer internships to cultivate talent, including JPMorgan Chase, Deloitte, and PepsiCo, to roll out virtual programs in 2020. The study’s findings offer reassurance to the 81 percent of companies offering virtual or hybrid... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
explore the factors that enable hybrids to meet and sustain their social mission, while also engaging in commercial activities to support their operations. The researchers began by constructing a database... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
populations they were trying to help” In the wake of this evolution over the past decade, more organizations have adopted a hybrid business model in which a social mission is the primary goal, but they still aim to generate enough... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations
This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.
First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit and the commercial logic of a for-profit business. When View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Research Summary
Conceptualizing and measuring environmental sustainability
This research involves developing clarity around the murky construct of environmental sustainability, and improving techniques to measure corporate environmental performance. My prior research in this domain includes View Details
- 2024
- Article
Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts
By: Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson and Dominik Rothenhäusler
Algorithmic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers to locations within host
countries has gained attention in recent years, with implementations in the U.S.
and Switzerland. These approaches use data on past arrivals to generate machine
learning models that can... View Details
Bansak, Kirk, Elisabeth Paulson, and Dominik Rothenhäusler. "Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts." Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 27th (2024).
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
parent's strategic focus." The Xerox Corporation originated as a photography-paper business called the Haloid Company. 3 The Haloid Company's entrance into what would later become its principal business came in 1947, when it and the Battelle Memorial Institute, a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
Virtual meetings have become the standard for global and hybrid team communication, but what happens when the call ends? Participants who are in the same room keep talking—and the tone of those conversations can dramatically impact team... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- August 2022 (Revised June 2024)
- Exercise
How Should Netflix Add an Ad-Supported Tier?
By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia
In the summer of 2022, it became clear that Netflix would introduce an ad-supported tier alongside its existing subscription plans in the near future. Speculation abounded as to the details of the new tier: How many minutes of advertising would it include? What picture... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Television Industry; Price; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Customer Value and Value Chain; Competitive Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Olivier Toubia. "How Should Netflix Add an Ad-Supported Tier?" Harvard Business School Exercise 523-033, August 2022. (Revised June 2024.)