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  • 1991
  • Chapter

Ethics as Character Development: Reflections on the Objective of Ethics Education

By: L. S. Paine
Keywords: Ethics; Trust; Personal Characteristics; Education
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Enfranchisement of Service Workers

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett
Enfranchisement is achieved through an integration of empowerment with methods of pay for performance. Evidence from Ito Yokado Group in Japan and Nordstrom in the US demonstrates the positive effects of enfranchisement. Successful efforts to enfranchise employees: 1.... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Franchise Ownership; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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  • May 1990 (Revised September 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Provides a framework that helps explain these real-world observations about accounting and financial statement analysis. When managers have superior information on firms' strategies, and when investors suspect that managers have incentives not to fully disclose this... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Strategy; Knowledge Management
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  • November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
  • Case

Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor

By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Conflict Management; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Employees; Competitive Strategy; Projects
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  • September 1988 (Revised July 2000)
  • Case

Alex Dean

By: Shoshana Zuboff, Dave DeLong and Kathleen Scharf
Traces the evolution of Alex Dean's internal and external careers, exploring his psychological and emotional development, as well as seemingly dramatic shifts in career direction from research scientist to venture capitalist. Designed to encourage students to reflect... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Emotions; Research and Development; Venture Capital
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  • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • November 1981
  • Supplement

Corning Glass Works International, Part I, Interviews with Division Managers, Video

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino
Presents tapes of interviews with Forrest Behm (previously president of Corning International), Bill Hudson (ex-country manager, international business manager, world board chairman, and current product division manager), and Van Campbell (corporate treasurer).... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • March 1981 (Revised April 1983)
  • Background Note

Reflections on Japanese Factory Management

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Japan
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  • March 1981 (Revised November 1998)
  • Supplement

Corning Glass Works International (C2)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino
Follows the impact of a change in global strategy on a diversified company's global organization structure. Reviews the company's subsequent performance internationally. Also presents reflections by top management on future possible change in the organization... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Change; Performance; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry
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  • spring 1978
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Reflections on Women and the Legal Profession: A Sociological Perspective

By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Law; Jobs and Positions; Gender; Science; Legal Services Industry
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  • Forthcoming
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Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers

By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
This paper uses novel, firm-level communication measures derived from communications metadata several months before and after a CEO transition for 102 firms to study whether and how this organizational event is reflected in employees’ communication flows. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Information; Communication; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment
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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

By: Tarun Khanna

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

  • Research Summary

Corporate Governance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

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Creativity and Innovation

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation
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Environmental Policy and Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter has been exploring (with Claas van der Linde of St. Gallen University, Switzerland) the relationship between environmental regulation, industry competition, and international competitiveness. He finds that many forms of environmental pollution... View Details
  • Forthcoming
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Government, Business and Making China an Educational Powerhouse Since the 1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang
This article examines how China successfully built a highly competent K-12 education system since the 1980s achieving high liteacy rates, broad basic education and gender equality. It argues that this success was driven by a strategy of blending public and private... View Details
Keywords: China; Education; Education Industry; China
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Growing as a Purposeful Leader

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details

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Incommensurable Values and Rational Decision Making

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Rational decision making is widely thought to require comparing alternatives with respect to a single measure of value. Accordingly, asking managers to consider values in addition to economic efficiency has been criticized on the grounds that doing so violates the... View Details
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India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 (with Anusha Chari)

By: Laura Alfaro
Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India’s economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
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Is Personal Identity Intransitive?

By: Julian De Freitas and L. Rips
There has been a call for a potentially revolutionary change to our existing understanding of the psychological concept of personal identity. Apparently, people can psychologically represent people, including themselves, as multiple individuals at the same time. Here... View Details
Keywords: Identity; Judgments
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