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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
present day. It covers early entrepreneurial attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War II, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of entrepreneurial actors, sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
mobilizing joint action in these areas. Download working paper: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
high tech community about social issues and the use of its technology. Senior executives of Apple, Tesla, Google, Uber, and Cisco, among others, already had spoken out about the treatment of migrants. A collection, led by Mark Zuckerberg... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
distinct roles, one to administer the existing institutional frameworks, including the provision of infrastructure and the administration of laws and regulations, and the second to mobilize political power to bring about modernization of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
voluntary programs-such as certification regimes, codes of conduct, and social monitoring-that seek to enforce global standards governing business practices. But little is known about the conditions under which companies are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated risks may undermine the efficacy of accountability reforms by limiting the ability of low-performing schools to attract and retain effective leaders. This paper empirically evaluates the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
historical scholarship and address a wealth of questions emanating from them, Global History, Globally is a must-read book for all students and scholars of global history. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54306 in press View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
information that function as organizational, location, and personnel mobility barriers among quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
investigates dialog and objects in recurrent social practices. Drawing from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that priming consumers with products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman