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2015
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Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union

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20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

identity groups may experience an additional form of identity threat known as "devaluation." Identity devaluation occurs when negative attributions about your social identity group(s) undermine key constituents' perceptions of... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

Podcast - Business & Environment

2022 | Climate Rising Climate change poses two very different challenges to the U.S. Navy. First, the Navy has to buttress its billions of dollars of shoreline assets against rising sea levels. Second, it has to plan to be called on more often to address both military... View Details

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

than ever. Amid all this turbulence, strategic thinkers must quickly evaluate opportunities and threats while operationalizing strategy. What organizations need now are “T-shaped leaders”—those who share knowledge across the organization... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

19 Feb 2013
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PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for revolutionary change. Three Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

Research Summary

Professor Hiatt’s research is aimed at discovering how institutional factors can affect sector growth and technology development and adoption by mediating and moderating uncertainty. His work encompasses two related research questions:

1) How can... View Details

Policy versus Practice: Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence

The recent growth of concern around issues such as social biases implicit in algorithms, economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), or potential existential threats posed... View Details

2009
Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

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16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

have deeply downsized their staffs. “There’s a lot that happened in the situation that should sound alarm bells for others,” Montgomery says. “The cases point to risks that can arise when firms facing severe competitive threats adopt a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jun 2010
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PublicationsPathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:ACM Sigecom Exchanges, June 2010 Abstract Much has been written about online search advertising, where Google enjoys 90% plus market share in numerous countries and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2010
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Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology

2013
Working Paper

Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick

The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States

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2024
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Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous

By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay

How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details

Keywords: Public Opinion; Communication; Perception; Reputation

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27 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

threat of lawsuits. A recent report found that companies were shedding diversity-related roles at a faster pace than non-DEI roles. Just two years ago, companies seemed to be making nascent progress on DEI. While only 6.3 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

July 16, 2016
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A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes

By: Elisabeth C. Paulson, Igor Linkov and Jeffrey Keisler

We study a strategic, two-player, sequential game between an attacker and defender. The defender must allocate resources amongst possible countermeasures and across possible targets. The attacker then chooses a type of threat and a target to attack. This paper proposes... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Game Theory; Strategy

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Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson

We study how a commercial firm competes with a free open source product. The market consists of two customer segments with different preferences and is characterized by positive network effects. The commercial firm makes product and pricing decisions to maximize its... View Details

Keywords: Profit; Product Launch; Network Effects; Open Source Distribution; Adoption; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage

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01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

significant number of corporate clients. —Ellie Luce (PMD 30, 1975) The Right Answer I had been working for Helene Curtis for one year right out of college when they promoted me to the company headquarters in Chicago, to rapidly build up a sales department to compete... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and right-wing View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology