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  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

Social Psychology Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal By: Aknin, Lara B., Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

development. Detailed historical economic and social data allow an evaluation of policy results. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706497 Inniskillin and the Globalization of Icewine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how these bases change depending on the circumstances of a relationship. Also describes how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

where suddenly the ultimate concern [was] an awareness of life, and it became suddenly so monumentally important to people that they began to feel a connection to their faith as well. When you think of those kinds of moments, and you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

decide whether to compete on the ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

BP and Body Shop. At what point in time was purpose not enough? Too often, I see controls (structure) put in place that effectively raise barriers to both the understanding of, and more importantly a connection to, the company... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

offers weekly Zoom meetings with guest speakers, game-based messaging, positive social norming exercises, and the promotion of “protective factors” such as staying connected to others, being physically... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

scientifically grounded way to align our speech and nonverbal behavior with our beliefs, abilities, and values to produce a synchronized inner state that resonates and connects with others. In this way, we can capture the inner strength... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

time periods to offer a comparative perspective. “I think we’ve discovered a bit of a niche here,” she says, noting that there could even be parallels to discover in the experiences of present-day refugees. “It would be great to expand this work and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly related to mining, such as trade,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

website; putting their firm’s logo/board member on your website Invitations to marketing and sales events Tapping their social media presence for sharing news and events Beyond the basics: Investors look at markets all day, every day, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

complicate the connection between market exchange and value creation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908068 MySpace Harvard Business School Case 708-499 The case, set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

conditions that foster creativity. Combined with the development of new communication technology that connects information workers (and their brains) at precisely the moment that a new generation of workers trained in the use of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

task forces' progress at various junctures to IBM's Worldwide Management Council. Gerstner and Childs followed up with the task force sponsors to ensure that the groups were gathering meaningful information and connecting it to the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 21 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

company’s investment in the online social entertainment world. The researchers started playing Fortnite during the pandemic “to break the monotony of constant Zoom meetings,” Wu says. But soon, they found themselves spending real money on... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

companies that rely on employees from around the world to help the firms capitalize on the promise of their global reach and resources. Global teams, however, face significant challenges; physical separation and demographic differences can create View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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