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- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
social enterprise (WISE), a type of organization that helps people transition back into the labor market after long-term unemployment. It also exemplifies what organization theorists call a hybrid: Rather than depending on charitable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
the subprime lenders—willing to take the risk on riskier borrowers, for a price. Thus far the tale testifies to America's entrepreneurial spirit. New mortgage banks specializing in subprime loans sprang up. Their panoply of products... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2019
- Case
Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)
By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States; India
Edmondson, Amy, Ranjay Gulati, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-058, September 2019.
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Bekkers. Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date Knowing how to keep a conversation going can improve your career as well as your social life, according to research by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues. Why Productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
market development, the tax system, labor market regulations, and public spending on research and development correlate with venture capital activities across countries. Our case study suggests these institutional differences led to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
reduction in monopoly price leads to the production of units that cost less than their value to consumers (standard channel); (ii) regulation calms down existing consumers because a reduction in the profits of an "unkind" firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
5.8 million job postings remained unfilled—the highest number of postings since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting those statistics in December 2000. Burning Glass data show that demand remains strong for a range of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
complementors...using as an example Intel and the microprocessor-manufacturing game...as Nalebuff and Brandenburger explain: Along the vertical dimension of the Value Net are the company's customers and suppliers. Resources such as raw materials and View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
straight and narrow. Washington looks at deregulation The research takes on added weight as Obama-administration regulation protecting financial consumers faces an uncertain future. The US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, in the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
the world, I'm not surprised that we in entrepreneurship are benefiting," he said. "The climate for entrepreneurship has never been better." Resource mobility, said Stevenson, is evident in product markets, where... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. And 5) Platforms are a double-edge sword: abuse of power, bullying poor labor practices, and bad actors can undermine even the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
organization, why men believe women are more emotionally intelligent, and the challenges female directors of corporations face in interacting with their male counterparts. 2006 pub Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund managers to incorporate ESG... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
until at least 10 minutes have passed without a bid. Q: In your study of eBay, how much sniping was going on, and what categories or products were most likely to be sniped? A: In the eBay data we collected for our 2002 American Economics... View Details