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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he discovered his love for the field... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
other forms of competition in strategy and organizations. Next, we organize and review the findings of three ostensibly separate theoretical perspectives that have arisen from game theory, competitive dynamics, and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
sample of 1,083 acquisitions of venture capital-backed private companies from 1976 and 2001, we find strong evidence that venture capital firms can form a bridge between acquiring firms and target firms that reduces asymmetric information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's 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
- 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
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
of work in their lives. And Richard Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 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
- 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 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
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
"is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to launch and operate. Funding sources are identified and a plan for securing initial investment is articulated. Performance Measurement : The plan takes a practical approach to milestones and organizational outcome measurement and... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In Experiment 2, we show that prosocial bonuses in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Blog
HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
organizations are working together well. That's the objective. This is not about restructuring; it's about getting the two organizations integrated. So HBS Online and Executive Education will maintain their own organizational structures?... View Details