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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: organizational culture. There are many different ways View Details
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

his company and its mission forward. “When I came to HBS I think that’s one thing I learned. How to lead an organization, lead a team, build organizational structure, understand organizational culture, and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

recent Mercer study shows that organizational commitment is closely tied to employee confidence and engagement in the work that they do. Dig more deeply into these concepts by browsing HBR's collection of talent management articles. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

Technology Adoption Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Elsevier, forthcoming Abstract We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

negative emotions, lower intrinsic motivation, and less favorable perceptions of the organization-with negative consequences for performance. These actions include signaling low expectations for innovation; switching strategic direction too frequently; miscoordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

income and education can, by extension, lead to poor health outcomes. Much of the research that does explore the impact of organizational practice focuses on outcomes such as cost and profitability. For example, satisfied, engaged... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Power of Conversational Leadership Published: July 23, 2012 Communication is always a challenge, especially in multinational corporations. Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind discuss why it makes sense to adopt the principles of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

stages, which the course calls extrapolation – the period of dramatic top-line growth that occurs midway through a typical S-curve, after a venture has confirmed product-market fit and raised its first round of VC financing. Adopting the... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm during... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

dominated by philosophical and political discourse due to a lack of systematic evaluation. Very little empirical evidence is available to indicate whether these codes legitimately distinguish adopting companies and factories as providing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations with formal View Details
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

go before humans cede the craft of writing to machines—if that ever happens in an organizational context. Overcoming aversion “is the billion-dollar question in front of the AI industry,” says Choudhury, who teamed on the paper with Bart... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

adopt the role of studying the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities of the private sector from afar. SECON gives students an opportunity to tangibly affect the conversation, trends, and insights in an part of the economy that has a... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

increase their allocation to growth stocks as a result of their desire to optimally increase their overall allocation to equities. We also explore the welfare implications of adopting the optimal dynamic rebalancing strategy vis-à-vis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2023
  • Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
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  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel