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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
$60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans, an amount that rises in years when IBRD loans are in high demand, particularly for countries in the most influential seats. This effect is more likely driven by informal rules and norms in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
scholars (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects) pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management. We provide a step-by-step roadmap that illustrates how to use four ML... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
observers. We identify boundary conditions and demonstrate that the positive inferences disappear when the observer is unfamiliar with the environment, when the nonconforming behavior is depicted as unintentional, and in the absence of expected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing nature of the sales and operations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
scholarly, detached and dispassionate judgment. Without such a commitment, academics and the subjects they teach are in danger of being discredited. It is far too easy to enumerate flaws in the current state of leadership education: course content rarely conforms to... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
frame, is the perfect example. Every process, every incentive, every cultural norm was optimized to deliver efficiently, bypassing the retail channel. When the strategy changed, the organization simply did not follow. Execution continued... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
dynamic, hypercompetitive world. But many have been forced to face the grim reality that the decades ahead will demand even more radical change. As disruptive technologies, business models, regulatory environments, and societal norms... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
creating opportunities for norm reinforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52457 Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By: Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice Presidents" in other firms, they may... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School by a professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Many managers interpret Reg FD subjectively, often relying on individual industry norms to decide where to draw the line. Ultimately, the ambiguity of Reg FD leads to considerable variation in the information managers privately provide to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1002/smj.2303/full February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne