by Julie Wulf - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2012
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Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf Abstract For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest ideas in modern psychological... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf Abstract—Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

shape important outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - The year in Review

core activities of teaching, research, and disseminating ideas. Faculty and students alike embraced the custom technology that enabled teaching and learning both in the classroom and remotely. They were supported by hundreds of frontline... View Details

22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/sleeping-with-your-smartphone-how-to-break-the-24-/an/10816-HBK-ENG Assessing Country Competitiveness: The Case of Spain Authors:Mercedes Delgado and Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:In Innovation, Global Change and Territorial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2020
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Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]

By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda

Authored at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this book is the result of an international collaboration between twelve female academics who apply their expertise to offer a blueprint for a more resilient, dignified, and sustainable society. The extension of... View Details

Keywords: Society; Economics; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Ethics

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2012
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Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models

By: Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and Julian Cardenas

In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a global sample of 200 social entrepreneurial organizations to develop a typology of social entrepreneuring models. This typology is based on four possible forms of capital that can be leveraged: social, economic,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure

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29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53137 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

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15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find that advertising agency establishments are more likely to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

Abstract—In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship

By: Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca and Eva Boxenbaum

As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept... View Details

Keywords: Change; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Framework; Research; Theory; Organizations; Management Practices and Processes

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Fall 2012
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The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised

By: Julie Wulf

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Governance Controls; Decision Making

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25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a value-based health care system. To... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

January 2020
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Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil

By: Julie Battilana, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey and Priscilla Zogbi

Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban areas and the official landowners—with the aspiration to improve the lives of the poor. A business-led approach to the... View Details