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  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories of the multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

lifelong employer due to global competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Mae. Fannie Mae was a Depression-era creation that was charged with establishing a secondary market for home loans. By purchasing qualifying residential mortgages from individual home loan issuers, Fannie Mae provided these institutions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

theory about, and the practice of, technologically mediated communication, power, and interpretation in organizations. Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von gro en westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, the way people behave, and the resources they use. Transformational reforms typically involve a decision to change a suite of institutional arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

practices; and there is scant empirical evidence that any of these approaches really work (Pfeffer & Fong, 2002; Mintzberg, 2004). In short, the current state of leadership education lacks the intellectual rigor and institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Library. She earned her Masters in Art Conservation with a specialty in Paper Objects at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation and a Board Member of the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Business Answers the Call

margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and reform efforts. Alumni have created and funded national... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

specialized groups working independently of one another. The 'modules' could then be connected and (in theory at least) would function seamlessly, as long as they conformed to a predetermined set of design rules." In addition, module... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

to the emerging literature on open and distributed innovation by demonstrating the value of openness, at least narrowly defined by disclosing problems, in removing barriers to entry to non-obvious individuals. We also contribute to the knowledge-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members, but not senior managers, a result that is contrary to what existing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Research Resources | Baker Library

Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable skills in the period of... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman