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12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

operations that have great potential for exciting and innovative conceptual and empirical work. To frame these research themes, the article provides a systematic literature review of operations articles published in the Journal of Service Management (JOSM). The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2012
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Prof. John Macomber in Kampala On 25 February 2025, Pippa Armerding, Executive Director of the Africa Research Center, joined Professor John Macomber in Kampala, Uganda at an event for alumni and other stakeholders where Prof. Macomber discussed his View Details

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46779 Working Papers An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1976
Article

Effects of Externally-Imposed Deadlines on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation

By: T. M. Amabile, W. DeJong and M. R. Lepper

Studied the effects of externally imposed deadlines on individuals' task performance and their subsequent interest in the task. In 1 deadline condition, 20 male undergraduates were given an explicit time limit for solving a series of initially interesting word games.... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Time Management; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment

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30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Cambridge to Nairobi

name of Ushahidi’s headquarters in Nairobi, before heading to San Francisco to work closely with the company’s business development team. Beyond the internship, the environment is full of energy: the Nairobi... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Technology

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

difficult. Success may validate the rightness of the culture—until it doesn’t. But that success is relatively short for organizations on track A in a competitive environment that is changing faster and faster, much too fast for any change... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

autumn 1993
Article

Motivational Synergy: Toward New Conceptualizations of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Workplace

By: T. M. Amabile

The foundation for a model of motivational synergy is presented. Building upon but going beyond previous conceptualizations, the model outlines the ways in which intrinsic motivation (which arises from the intrinsic value of the work for the individual) might interact... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Theory; Creativity; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture

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27 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Association

The Latino Student Organization (LASO) at the Harvard Business School is dedicated to fostering a collaborative community of aspiring Latino business leaders who wish to pursue a career in the United States. We provide resources and services to U.S.-born Latino... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

surprisingly, we found that piracy contributed to the decline in music sales but was not the main cause. In this article, we review and respond to recent criticism of our work by Stan Liebowitz in Econ Journal Watch. We show how the use... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
Blog Post

Scratching the surface

as many people as these two years will allow. Meeting others is by far what I was most looking forward to. Before this, I worked primarily in insulated, small-team environments where opportunities to branch... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

31 Mar 2016
News

A Map for Economic Renewal Begins in Maine

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2001 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Venture Capital Vignettes

By: G. Felda Hardymon

Presents three fictionalized but realistic situations in which a venture capitalist may find himself. One situation requires crisis intervention to quell a dispute between a vice president of sales and a CEO; another poses the problem of working out the composition of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Crisis Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Executive Compensation; Situation or Environment; Employee Relationship Management; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry

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