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  • December 1995
  • Case

Assessing Foreign Business Practices

By: Debora L. Spar
As businesses expand worldwide, corporations are increasingly being forced to grapple with definitions of "acceptable" foreign conduct. What differentiates a "bribe" from a "commission"? Should managers abroad refer to local custom or their own national laws in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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Spar, Debora L., and Zanley Galton. "Assessing Foreign Business Practices." Harvard Business School Case 796-105, December 1995.
  • October 1991 (Revised August 1992)
  • Case

Software Business Practices Council

By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Software
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Paine, Lynn S. "Software Business Practices Council." Harvard Business School Case 392-027, October 1991. (Revised August 1992.)
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices Across Firms and Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-052, December 2011.
  • February 2012
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Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices across Firms and Countries." Academy of Management Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 2012): 12–33.
  • Jun 2008
  • Conference Presentation

Advancing Leadership: Theory and Practice

By: Scott Snook
Keywords: Leadership; Theory; Practice
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Snook, Scott. "Advancing Leadership: Theory and Practice." Paper presented at the HBS Centennial Colloquium, Boston, MA, June 2008.
  • 1972
  • Book

Financial Reporting Practices of Corporations

By: David Hawkins
Keywords: Finance; Reports; Practice; Business Ventures
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Hawkins, David. Financial Reporting Practices of Corporations. Homewood: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1972.
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice

By: Alvin E. Roth
The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Failure; Mathematical Methods
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Roth, Alvin E. "Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice." In Better Living through Economics, edited by John J. Siegfried, 206–222. Harvard University Press, 2010.
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice

By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory
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Khurana, Rakesh, and Nitin Nohria. "Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice." Chap. 1 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
  • 2010
  • Book

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in the world," these same schools produce... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory
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Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2016
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Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

By: Michael W. Toffel
This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the... View Details
Keywords: Research Questions; Relevance; Rigor; Practice-based Research; Research; Communication; Media; Education Industry
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Toffel, Michael W. "Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1493–1505. (Sparked a Working Knowledge article about research relevance.)
  • 20 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

Teresa M. Amabile's research centers on how the work environment can influence the motivation, creativity, and performance of individuals and teams. A recent study focused on the influence of team leaders on these factors. Professor Amabile and New Business publisher... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
  • October 2003 (Revised December 2006)
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Corrupt Practices in International Business

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Robert E. Kennedy
Explores various aspects of corruption in international business. This abridged case contains materials from both Corruption in International Business (A) & (B), but does not include the example "caselets." A rewritten version of earlier cases. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption
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Di Tella, Rafael M., and Robert E. Kennedy. "Corrupt Practices in International Business." Harvard Business School Case 704-017, October 2003. (Revised December 2006.)
  • 2007
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Practice Segmentation in Professional Services

By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong and Robert Lees
Keywords: Service Operations; Segmentation; Service Industry
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Gabarro, John J., Thomas J. DeLong, and Robert Lees. "Practice Segmentation in Professional Services." January 2007.
  • 1999
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Integrated Marketing Communications in Practice

By: John Deighton
Keywords: Marketing Communications; Integration
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Deighton, John. "Integrated Marketing Communications in Practice." Chap. 33 in The Advertising Business: Operations, Creativity, Media Planning, Integrated Communications, edited by John Philip Jones, 339–355. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999.
  • December 2012
  • Course Overview Note

Good Practices for Supervising an EC Independent Project

By: Ian W. Mackenzie
Spurred by the notion that Faculty Supervisors (FSs) can make a significant contribution to the educational value and overall success of Independent Projects (IPs) to students, this note offers a set of good practices which can be used to guide the policies and... View Details
Keywords: Independent Projects; Faculty Supervisor; Project Manager; Student Evaluation; Projects; Groups and Teams
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Mackenzie, Ian W. "Good Practices for Supervising an EC Independent Project." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 713-469, December 2012.
  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from professional philanthropists as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • August 2013
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Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder and Michael W. Toffel
Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that violate government regulations, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Crime and Corruption; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Satisfaction; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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Bennett, Victor Manuel, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder, and Michael W. Toffel. "Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices." Management Science 59, no. 8 (August 2013): 1725–1742. (Online Appendix.  Lead article. Nominated for "Best Conference Paper Award" and "SMS Best Conference Paper Prize for Practice Implications" at 2012 Strategic Management Society International Conference.)
  • 27 Apr 2004
  • Conference Presentation

Practical Drift in Complex Organizations

By: Scott Snook
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Complexity
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Snook, Scott. "Practical Drift in Complex Organizations." Paper presented at the Harvard University Social Psychology Research Workshop, Cambridge, MA, April 27, 2004.
  • 2000
  • Book

Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life

By: Robert J. Sternberg, George B. Forsythe, Jennifer Hedlund, Joseph A. Horvath, Richard K. Wagner, Wendy M. Williams, Scott A. Snook and Elena L. Grigorenko
Keywords: Experience and Expertise
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Sternberg, Robert J., George B. Forsythe, Jennifer Hedlund, Joseph A. Horvath, Richard K. Wagner, Wendy M. Williams, Scott A. Snook, and Elena L. Grigorenko. Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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