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  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff Publication: In Institutional Foundations of Public Finance, edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel Shaviro. Harvard University Press, 2009 Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

positive theory of integrity that has no normative content and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance-into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

multi-level model to explain how expertise dissensus affects team processes and outcomes. We further advance theory by investigating the effects of expertise dissensus on all dimensions of team effectiveness: team performance, team... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

  Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors' agency and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

associated biomarkers, placing an emphasis on the factors affecting their development, pricing, and access. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52453 Theory of Machine: When Do People Rely on Algorithms? By:... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

The Wise Men

Professors Williams, Lodge, Goldberg, and Salmon, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the School during its crucial middle decades and further benefit from their accumulated wisdom as to future directions for the institution they helped... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark discourages... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Authors:Scott Snook, Herminia Ibarra, and Laura Ramo Publication:Chap. 22 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana Abstract Despite the wealth of managerial and scholarly attention paid to... 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
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

forbid the most popular form of life insurance (tontine insurance), limit the growth of life insurers (which included several of the nation's largest financial institutions at the time), and prevent insurance firms from owning the stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

offenders—and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological differences across judges (to which detainees are randomly matched) into very large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace