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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

approach found only in Gulati, Mayo, and Nohria's Management. This unique text demonstrates how success within a constantly changing business environment requires a clear understanding of the interactive and dynamic nature of strategy, View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working paper, “Unmask-ing Manly Men:... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent contributions to information systems... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54953... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

organizational differences could account for about 16% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

individual and organizational capabilities and presents the theory and research on deep smarts. The six most universally found characteristics of this particular kind of expertise are deep domain knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2011
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

which) the job makes the person (might be related) to the degree of alignment in values between the person and the organizational culture." Dinesh Kaushal suggested that "relative position also changes the way people... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Management Theory By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—Observation is key to management scholarship and practice. Yet a holistic view of its role in management has been elusive, in part due to shifting terminology. The current popularity of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

service, at HBS and beyond. Members of the unit have written case studies not only for the Service Management elective but also for other units, such as Technology and Operations Management, Organizational Behavior/Human Resources... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

exposure to shift work, long work hours, job insecurity, work–family conflict, low job control, high job demands, low social support at work, and low organizational justice. Our model uses input parameters obtained from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership. This collection captures Porter's unique ability to bridge theory and practice. Each of the articles has not only shaped thinking, but also redefined the work of practitioners in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace