Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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Michael F. Cronin

The real deal: Up from the streets of Boston, a venture capitalist helps companies and people flourish. Photo courtesy Michael Cronin On the 50th floor of the John Hancock Tower, the east side of Michael Cronin's corner office offers... View Details

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

with age. Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser, and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract Substantial evidence... View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

close friends where phones and PDA's are off limits. "When we're secure in the relationships that matter most," DeLong writes, "it's far easier to take chances at work, to embrace new experiences, to tackle challenging... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

accountable. “But what you start to realize is that the problems that have been uncovered have been going on for a very long time,” says Dennis Campbell, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Far from being... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

Whether their mission is to protect wildlife, help disabled people, or offer financial services in developing countries, nonprofit organizations often believe they need to grow big before they can achieve significant social impact. HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Global Activities 2020

collaboration, which is leading to meaningful results for a microfinance organization in Santiago, Chile. Middle East & North Africa South Asia Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan... View Details

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

he went so far as to write 10 to 20 handwritten personal notes to employees at all levels of the organization each day to recognize those who were performing well. During his 10-year tenure as CEO, that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

2009
Working Paper

Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss

In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East

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01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

stuck with him. He talked to local organic farmers to learn more about the nuts and bolts of planting, watering, and harvesting. Hundreds of miles to the northwest, at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska, he found indigenous... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

other mistake companies make with innovative culture is presenting it as something that is going to be really fun." And, sometimes responding is not even the right response. As I write in the book with the example of digital photography, sometimes a new thing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

is far more valuable in decisions regarding people " However, intuition lags reality. "Use it to consider if the new idea makes sense, but don't give it more weight than it deserves." B. Graham equated judgment with a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

not a meaningful, let alone actionable, comparison. Similarly, although the cost of serving a customer who is purchasing clothing from a Wal-Mart store is likely far below the same cost for an Armani store, Armani would probably not... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

they're clearly oriented toward maintaining the status quo. They're suspicious of new ideas. Sometimes the organization has a culture where new ideas are evaluated harshly, and people see that. It speaks much louder than any corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing... View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

word “taguan.” The researchers banked on the notion that most people have never heard of a taguan, which, FYI, is a type of East Indian flying squirrel. If participants claimed to have solved the taguan jumble correctly, the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World Pictured: Masato Nakamura and Yasu Sasago (both MBA 2020), at far right, with team members at the 2019 pop-up ramen event in Cambridge. For world traveler Yasu Sasago (MBA 2020), being... View Details

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