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  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

When an algorithm recommends ways to improve business outcomes, do employees trust it? Conventional wisdom suggests that understanding the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) can raise confidence in such programs. Yet, new View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

today's business environment, says Roy Y.J. Chua, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who has focused his research on exploring how such collaboration can effectively take place. A... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Working Conditions in Supply Chains microsite

    This microsite is a new resource for managers of global supply chains, including brands who want to source products from suppliers that avoid problematic working conditions, auditors who assess factory working conditions, and NGOs focused on this area. The site... View Details

    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior

    By: L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton and E. W. Dunn
    While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Cost vs Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Outcome or Result; Relationships; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
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    • February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
    • Case

    Caterpillar Tractor Co.

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Describes the structure and evolution of the earth moving equipment industry worldwide in the post war era, particularly focusing on developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Describes Caterpillar's strategy in becoming the dominant worldwide competitor (industry market... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    and people of color in leadership roles continue to remain scarce, perpetuating a pattern of sameness, with white men often replacing other white men in high-level positions, Chang says. However, the research results also reveal a bright... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 14 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14

    innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin and View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • Teaching Interest

    Information in Financial Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2016)

    Second-year undergraduate course covering various aspects of information propagation in financial markets. The course is divided into four units. We begin by covering canonical pricing anomalies that illustrate the importance of information distribution and... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

    Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers'... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
    • 07 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

    predatory behavior to obtain donations, it did not attract less educated or less affluent donors, the researchers observe in the paper. There was a higher instance of donors who died from cancer, however, which raises the View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • August 2021
    • Article

    (Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

    By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
    In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Perspective; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 31 Aug 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

    number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Research Summary

    The Commercialization of Internet Infrastructure

    By: Shane M. Greenstein

    Why did commercial Internet service initially develop in some geographical areas and not others? What determines the success of businesses? What determines the value of Internet services? The research stream developed the first analysis of the Internet access... View Details

    • November 2013
    • Exercise

    People Management (Abridged)

    By: Boris Groysberg
    Highlights critical gaps between research and practice in the field of strategic human resources management. Also, aims to debunk some myths and preconceptions that general managers bring to their HR decisions. Before class, participants fill out a true-or-false... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Management; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Performance Evaluation
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    • August 2022
    • Case

    In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission

    By: Joshua Lev Krieger and Josh Lerner
    In 2022, the leaders of In-Q-Tel (IQT) considered what was next for the unique mission-driven organization. Since 1999, IQT had one mission: to be the most sophisticated source of strategic technical knowledge and capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. IQT... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; National Security; Technological Innovation; Research; Geopolitical Units; Risk Management; Recruitment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Knowledge Management; Information Industry; Banking Industry
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    • 05 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

    report was co-written by Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon of the Burning Glass Institute and supported by the Schultz Family Foundation. The scorecard comes as employers struggle to find skilled workers in a stagnant labor pool, trends that are likely to... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 2021
    • Chapter

    Renewing the Relevance of IB: Can Some History Help?

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    International business (IB) as a discipline has given limited attention to contemporary grand challenges of inequality, global warming, aging populations, endemic health crises, and de-globalization, in all of which multinationals are either central to the problem or... View Details
    Keywords: International Business; Globalization; History; Multinational Firms and Management
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    • 13 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Spot a Liar

    evaded questions about the amount of the endowment, but ultimately offered the receiver less than half). After a graduate student transcribed all the allocator/receiver conversations, the researchers... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Jun 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross Section of Expected Returns World

    Keywords: by Charles C.Y. Wang; Accounting