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- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present theory suggesting that experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
entrepreneurial program procured donations that the academic-housed program often did not attract. Specimen recipients' distinct demands partly explain these procurement behaviors. Thus, organizational efforts to meet demands seem to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than creating an institutional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Abstract—What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper shows that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation joined together to form a new organization, AGRA, to tackle the historic challenge of increasing agricultural production in Africa. Launched with much fanfare and led by former U.N.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
Commons: Lessons from Teachers' Participation in the Design of New Schools By: Gil, Nuno A., and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We argue that a design commons can be an advantageous organizational form under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
percent of board members are women. They teamed with Fletcher, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational behavior, to answer questions on gender, competition, and cooperation that have not been addressed in previous research: Do... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
creativity is absolutely essential for current business success. I define creativity as producing novel, workable ideas and solutions to problems; innovation is implementing those ideas within an organizational context. You need novel and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
American managerial capitalism, the Japanese cultural heritage fostered a form of management Chandler called "group capitalism." As many observers have noted, the homogeneity of Japanese society, its isolationism during the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance between the logics they combine. Our evidence further suggests that the crucial early levers for developing such an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
partners. We introduce the managed ecosystem governance form in which a central organization engages external communities and also manages these communities by maintaining some degree of control over their activities. This model is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract— Various View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
In contrast, we find no increase in crimes against men or gender-neutral crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
silence? Michel Anteby: Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals. Indeed, the absence of direct guidance from higher authorities does not equate with the absence of any guidance. In vocal silence, an View Details