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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

Manage your network. Effective managers know they cannot avoid conflict and competition among organizational groups; they build and nurture ongoing relationships. Manage your team. Team members need to know what's required of them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Reimagining the MBA

emerged was an awareness that HBS could do more in three areas: leadership development, globalization, and experiential learning. Afterward, Dean Jay Light formed faculty committees to identify ways HBS might uniquely address these areas.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • July 2011
  • Teaching Note

Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 408077. View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Employees; Growth and Development; Situation or Environment; Consolidation; Acquisition; Digital Platforms; Blogs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web; Public Relations Industry
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  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in a professional setting. Nonconforming behaviors, as costly and visible signals, can act as a particular form of conspicuous consumption and lead to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed formed the foundation for... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

common goal via information-sharing, joint decision-making, and coordination of activities. In contrast to prior work, we distinguish forms of collaboration by three organizational goals—unit management,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

that would distribute funds to four organizations equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

in press More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership Nudging as a Tool for Leaders By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

  PublicationsRecent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:,em>Annual Review of Economics Vol. 2 (2010) Abstract We present a survey of recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

than that of other CEOs. CEO turnover sensitivity to firm performance is also significantly higher in founder-director firms compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

work? A: Many firms adopt what we call a "production outsourcing" mindset to collaboration. This is typified by a focus on lowering cost at the expense of other potentially more valuable benefits. These firms view collaboration as a form... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to make decisions in the field... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design... View Details
  • 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
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

M.I.A. Boards

they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC... View Details
Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

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