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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights provisions, in particular,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
viewpoints; Restructure the governing process by forming an independent commission to redesign congressional rules to greatly reduce two-party control over which bills are considered and how issues are... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Most leaders view employee... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
startup is initially focusing on the freely tradable global market for copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver concentrates—estimated to be around $50 billion—which excludes companies that process their own concentrates or those View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
"solution" information (how to satisfy those needs) lies with the manufacturer. Traditionally, the onus has been on manufacturers to collect the need information through various means, including market research and information gathered from the field. The... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
non-conformance and quality control programs that were designed to optimize patient experience. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? I studied mechanical engineering because I wanted to build upon my analytical,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
interest to customers (earthquakes, fires, conflicts at key border crossings) and to autonomously instruct the constellation to monitor them in a process known as “tipping and cueing.” The platform’s algorithms can interpret the radio... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
retail investors and dismiss them as uneducated or unworthy. It strikes me as incredibly egocentric and paternalistic. I inherently believe that people have the ability to learn, to take control of their own destiny.” “I will say that I... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China
By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou
We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China
Marquis, Christopher, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou. "Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China." California Management Review 54, no. 1 (Fall 2011): 39–63.
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
are due to attendance and are conditional on high levels of attendance and those holding leadership positions within the IETF. Surprisingly, standards endorsement is insignificant when controlling for simple physical attendance. These... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
adversity, boards become more active by definition," one director said. "But what one has to ask is: Should they be more active when things are good, to make sure that the risk-management processes are in place, that the financial View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
pool. Be aware of how video background and noise out of a candidate’s control influence your perception and offer alternatives. Standardize your interview process so that each candidate answers the same... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
IV.2, f. 30. Exposure record for test photographs of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, January 1954. Polaroid Corporation Records, Photographs & Correspondence of Ansel Adams, b. IV.2, f. 27. Adams understood that Land “believed strongly that if a stable, simple, and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
The social sector is big business. In the United States alone some 1.5 million nonprofits and other social ventures have combined revenues of $700 billion and control assets valued at $2 trillion—a seemingly substantial arsenal to tackle... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne