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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
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
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
seen the inner city as a separate part of the economic landscape. Almost always, he said, entrepreneurs would rather borrow money from a leading local bank than from a community development bank. "The challenge [is] to connect the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
cost-plus contracts to fixed-price ones. Companies are willing to accept worse contracting terms in an effort to rebuild trust with the government,” says Perez Cavazos. To find out whether a company’s political connections might have... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
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 Aug 2016
- First Look
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
- 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
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
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
- 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
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose.... View Details
- 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
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
tax" is one that guarantees a socially desirable distribution of the tax burden, which is of course shaped by the views and beliefs of a country. Ane Damgaard Jensen: Overall, people have different views of what a flat tax is and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace