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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
Do relationships between colleagues raise the bar? A new analysis of how physicians who know each other provide better patient care could impart wide-ranging lessons for the business world. Specialists who received referrals from primary... View Details
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
of us should pay serious attention to. I truly believe business contributes to the prosperity of humanity, and is more important to the continued prosperity View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Power and Influence
Marquis, Christopher, and Julie Battilana. "Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-034, November 2007.
- 2009
- Article
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Community Relations; Local Range; Civil Society or Community; Power and Influence
Marquis, Christopher, and Julie Battilana. "Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 283–302.
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
oversight on the part of managers. Individuals voluntarily regulate themselves, refraining from behaviors that clash with the culture. Over the past few decades, many corporate leaders have sought to build strong cultures that define... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
satisfying, credible, and accessible? People's attention spans are shrinking; we're all cutting and pasting everything in our lives. Very few people will read the book cover to cover, but you can still get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose
enriching the way I think and act on a daily basis. Moving forward, I know I will always carry with me the purpose to create, the purpose to motivate, and the purpose to engage. Create Within my Peek cohort, I connected with a melting pot View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
don’t normally like to talk about. Blendtec captured attention and increased sales with a video showing that its blender was so powerful it could crush a cell phone into a pile of powder. “The best defense... View Details
- Web
Business of Ideas - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Business of Ideas Course Number 1161 Professor Caroline Elkins Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Overview: Today, ideas matter more than ever. Idea generators – from opinion columnists and non-fiction writers to podcast... View Details
- September 2022
- Article
How HBR Has Covered Women and Business: From Articles on 'Successful Wives of Successful Executives' to 'Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers'
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Over the course of its century-long history, HBR has evolved significantly in its coverage of women and business. At first the magazine barely acknowledged the existence of women in the workforce, but in the 1950s it began to pay attention to the roles women were... View Details
Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. "How HBR Has Covered Women and Business: From Articles on 'Successful Wives of Successful Executives' to 'Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers'." Special Issue on 100 Years of HBR. Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea (September 2022).
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
interest because of recent attention on Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere. As I write in my essay in the Handbook, and have explored in other work with my HBS colleague... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
time when many bemoan the lack of skilled workers. ASD is an umbrella term for several cognitive impairments, including Asperger syndrome. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates one in 68 children have been diagnosed with... View Details
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What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta
This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details
Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta. "What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 96 (December 2013): 85–103.
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
they pay little attention to the social contract, or the spirit of the deal. So while the parties agree to the same terms on paper, they may actually have very different expectations about how the agreement... View Details
- 27 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the View Details
- 26 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
- 26 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino