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September 2018
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Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters

By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano

Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them dwindled, others proved resilient. Contributing to the recent literature on co-located clusters and clusters'... View Details

Keywords: Production; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy; Competition

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Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

longer-term opportunities while meeting shorter-term objectives Work effectively with peers and upper management to facilitate necessary change and realize the potential of pioneering ideas Embrace your role as change agent Bring out the... View Details

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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

Future of Work How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO, on View Details

2009
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Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations

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18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

that offers the benefit of calling two sections home (love to sections J and A!). Learning how to support each other in school and at home has been an incredible part of our... View Details

2010
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Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting

By: Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman

We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting", the intentional registration of misspellings of popular website addresses. We estimate that at least 938,000 typosquatting domains target the top 3,264 .com sites, and we crawl more than 285,000 of these domains to... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Online Technology; Web

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07 Oct 2010
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The Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Eurasia

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal; Energy; Utilities

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On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity

By: Anke Becker

This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details

Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture

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The Political Power of Weak Interests

By: Gunnar Trumbull

One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details

20 Dec 2006
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The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

07 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison

Keywords: by Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith & Mengxin Zhao

2010
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Multi-Rater Assessment of Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations

By: Giovanni B. Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steve J. Kramer

This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects, completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory and rated themselves and their... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Research; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Projects

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02 Jul 2009
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Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

that work. The challenge now is to build the support to scale these solutions. Key concepts include: Public education is in a state of crisis. Fixing it requires radically reforming a dysfunctional system.... View Details

Keywords: Education

02 Mar 2020
HBS Seminar

Drew Carton, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

07 Feb 2020
News

The Age of Mass Migration: Contrasting Economic and Political Effects

01 Jan 2017
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Sphere of Influence

scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s... View Details

August 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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Milwaukee (A): Making of a World Water Hub

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird

Starting in 2007 Milwaukee leaders from different areas (large established companies, civic organizations, public sector, academia, and entrepreneurs) negotiated a path for converting the region into a global water hub to address economic and environmental concerns.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Growth Management; Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Wisconsin

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