Cultural Adaptation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

usually creates a massive gap between what people know and are able to do, and what they are now expected to do. This creates the need to invest heavily in human capital. Given a longstanding culture that values egalitarianism and rewards... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details

July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States

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22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

about whether organizations can adapt—and if so how. One perspective, organizational ecology, presents evidence suggesting that most organizations are largely inert and ultimately fail. A second perspective argues that some firms do learn and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

proof of one-sided strategy-proofness for worker–firm matching under continuously transferable utility. A new “Lone Wolf” theorem (Jagadeesan, et al., 2017) for settings with transferable utility allows us to adapt the method of proving... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

production and "customization" of materials. The engineering or applied science-based culture of many German firms kept power and authority closer to the factory or subsidiaries. Craft production meant skilled workers also... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

an ambidextrous approach to solve their own innovator's dilemma. They contrast these luminaries with companies that—often trapped by their own successes—have been unable to adapt and grow. Drawing on an extensive research program and over... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

individuals to enroll in weight loss programs, without a decrement in program effectiveness. Future research could explore the cost effectiveness of such subsidies or alternative designs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51020 Spring... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

strangle innovation efforts with the same rigid planning, budgeting, and reviewing approaches they use in their existing businesses—thereby discouraging people from adapting as circumstances warrant. Companies must be careful how they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new out-group affect the economic,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

and stockholders. However, this implication is invalid when managers can manipulate information flows that influence short-term stock price movements. Neoclassical economic theory thus fosters a corporate culture that ignores the personal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness and performance outcomes. Using a hybrid research design that adapts and blends quantitative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research on international... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2024
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ZEISS: Commercializing Science

By: Maria P. Roche, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer

Karl Lamprecht, President and CEO of the ZEISS AG Group, mused on how far ZEISS had come in 175 years of being a pioneer in optics, and how the course he had charted since taking the helm of the company could keep it on track. In his role, he oversaw the four core... View Details

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20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

The BP case also illustrates that investor relations is increasingly looking for a more strategic role to play within an organization, trying to take its work to a new level. Q: "Investor Relations at TOTAL" is set in a particular sociopolitical View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details