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- November 2010
- Technical Note
Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation
By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations...
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Accounting;
Corporate Accountability;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
History;
Code Law;
Managerial Roles;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Private Ownership;
United States
Khurana, Rakesh, Andrew David Klaber, and Eric Baldwin. "Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 411-069, November 2010.
- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing and View Details
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Entrepreneurship
- August 2023
- Article
Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco
By: Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data...
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Migration;
North Africa;
Morocco;
Sub-Saharan African Migrants;
Middle East;
Immigration;
Perception;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Labor;
Morocco
Buehler, Matt, Kristin E. Fabbe, and Eleni Kyrkopoulou. "Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco." ILR Review 76, no. 4 (August 2023): 748–773.
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ties back to the cost of code switching and micro-aggressions in the workplace. People’s satisfaction with work, their sense of belonging, among Black employees, actually grew...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we’re optimistic in that the C-suite is really focused on this and it does have it as a priority moving forward. Kerr: That’s very consistent with the type of surveys that we’ve been conducting at Managing...
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- 14 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Smart Money: The Effect of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Financial Literacy on Financial Market Participation
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
an opportunity to change fundamentally their cost structures at the same time.Kerr: Ok, so tell us a little bit next about the design of the survey. Who were you trying to reach? How did you conduct the...
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want. In a world where we can search at our fingertips and plug in mom with dementia in this zip code and get a list of memory care facilities, getting that—what EAPs refer to as resources and referrals as...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a...
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Experience and Expertise;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Expectations;
Groups and Teams
Gardner, Heidi K. "Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-126, April 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- 2013
- Article
Is It All about the Self? The Effect of Self-control Depletion on Ultimatum Game Proposers
By: Eliran Halali, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Axel Ockenfels
In the ultimatum-game, as in many real-life social exchange situations, the selfish motive to maximize own gains conflicts with fairness preferences. In the present study we manipulated the availability of cognitive-control resources for ultimatum-game proposers to...
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Halali, Eliran, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and Axel Ockenfels. "Is It All about the Self? The Effect of Self-control Depletion on Ultimatum Game Proposers." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (2013): 240.
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100...
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April White
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Gallup in the area of workforce actually started with George Gallup, our founder, who back in the 1950s was conducting some research on global polling, but also some research on centurions, folks who lived...
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internal training that’s required in any given year, whether that’s the obvious things we all do, like code of business conduct, etc., as well as skills transformation-related training courses that are made...
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way up to computer coding skills. So there were five levels, sort of the mid-level was basic workforce productivity. So as we go forward, we see an increasing opportunity to expand what we’re doing in that...
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automating around it. They will find it by writing code to replace people. And so if we don't solve these talent needs, the systems effects are pretty dire for employment opportunities and our economic growth. Stephen, thanks so much for...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management that would qualify as a "profession," combining "mastery of specific knowledge with adherence to certain formal or informal codes of View Details
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by Jim Heskett
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Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"
My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details
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management. What share of a Fortune 500 companies’ business do you expect will need to be conducted in this platform? We know it's very high-value, but you think about how far down in the stack View Details