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- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One: Global Norms And The One-leader... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
conflicts between employees’ personal and professional identities, decreasing their performance and commitment. “Employers should understand the fundamental shift in employees’ lives and recognize that they have to radically alter their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new activities; and to establish... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
a successful social strategy. In A Social Strategy, he contends that the real world comes with certain social norms of conduct that keep people from saying what they really want to say, or acting how they really want to act. Successful... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line between adherence to principles of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
professional status would allow me to have a better life than they had. They grew up during the Depression, and both began working at young ages to help support their families. They both continued to work long hours throughout their adult... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is the tension between embracing... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
from the institutional status quo, namely, (1) changes that diverge from the institutionalized template of role division among organizations and (2) changes that diverge from the institutionalized template of role division among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
coaches about lessons learned, factors that have led to success, and what the coaches wish they had known” A successful colleague employed at the bank for at least two years is appointed as a peer coach; he or she will have an extensive View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
story. But at the News of the World, the people who were asked to hack the phones were apparently hired by journalists, but were not journalists themselves. This gave them the freedom to obey norms different from those of their employers.... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
financially constrained. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2338575 Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: False Expectations of Leniency in the Punishment of Transgressions By: Gino, Francesca,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
missing the consequences and longer-term effects.” UNEQUAL PAY FALLOUT Partnerships remain key to the way the professional service and investment sectors are run. Previous research has shown that the partnership structure has many... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
research covered the era between 1850 and 1950, when big business emerged and grew spectacularly, and when the United States became the world's largest economy. There is an underlying assumption in Chandler's work that the United States and large, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne