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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
hospital, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that frontline workers' participation in problem solving is motivated by some inherent characteristics of the problems as well as by particular management practices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of conflict at any given moment between the angel and the devil,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
participation to improve labor standards in global supply chains. Yet little is known about whether these structures are associated with improved working conditions, especially in organizations in which they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
markets. They have shown that the second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a deeper globalization than ever seen previously using that criterion. By 1914 world capital, commodity and labor markets were closely integrated, and more... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
research organizations that partnered with business groups and regulatory bodies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53310 The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang discuss a systematic and persistent lack of female, Hispanic, and African American View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
LaGuardia is number 15 for takeoff. I miss Air Force One!! And here's one from film director Lee Unkrich: Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back home plunging a clogged... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
begin with, the top team must first agree on a "statement of strategic and organizational direction" — an outline of what the company must do as a whole in order to gain competitive advantage. They then appoint an employee task View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
the right thing to do is for shareholders as a whole. This uncertainty is a burden on managers and one that will force them not to choose investments, mergers, and accounting decisions based on the details of their contracts. Rather, they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety on perceptual and conceptual forms of perspective taking.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
place in today's supply chain, as well as the far-reaching impact of information technology advancements. Outlining the program's curriculum, they explain how the participants leave the program armed with the principles and perspectives... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology, decentralization, and management, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne