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  • 29 Mar 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
  • Web

Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

in favor of the railroads and firms having interests in each other. “[The railroads] sought to influence the people who could regulate and control the bottlenecks View Details
  • Research Summary

Dynamics of Network Structure and Content in Social Media

Organizations use social media to leverage knowledge contributions by individual employees, which also foster social interactions – activity in blogs, forums, wikis etc. is critical to ensuring a thriving online community. Prior studies have examined... View Details

  • 10 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

supposed to not have a day job? Should I actively avoid having a stable income and the safety of working for a large company? Coming from Perú, where the music industry is still in a very incipient stage, I grew up under the View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

By: Alvin E. Roth
The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Education; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Mathematical Methods; Theory; Practice
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

delivering standout services and experiences that provide a competitive edge and build customer loyalty. 4 weeks, 5-6 hrs/week Pay by September 18 $1,850 Certificate Power and... View Details
  • 1994
  • Chapter

Separation of Ownership and Control

By: Michael C. Jensen and Eugene F. Fama
Keywords: Ownership; Power and Influence; Governance
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  • June 2014
  • Article

Mastering the Intermediaries: Strategies for Dealing with the Likes of Google, Amazon, and Kayak

By: Benjamin Edelman
Many companies depend on powerful platforms which distinctively influence buyers' purchasing. (Consider, Google, Amazon, and myriad others in their respective spheres.) I consider implications of these platforms' market power, then suggest strategies to help companies... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Market Power; Dominance; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Channels; Agreements and Arrangements; Competitive Strategy; Negotiation; Transportation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • January 23, 2023
  • Article

Digital Public Health Interventions at Scale: The Impact of Social Media Advertising on Beliefs and Outcomes Related to COVID Vaccines

By: Susan Athey, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca and Nils Wernerfelt
Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about $40 million of social media advertisements that were run and experimentally tested on Facebook and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Vaccines; Social Media; Advertising; Power and Influence; Health Care and Treatment
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Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova and Ryan Howell
A comprehensive study is currently lacking to explain why material values strongly influence compulsive buying. The goal of the current study is to test if money management, buying motivations for improving mood and identity, and self-transformation expectations... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cards; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Emotions
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  • 2014
  • Chapter

Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action

By: Ranjay Gulati and Sameer Srivastava
We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded in the actors' resources and motivations within their structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Agency Theory
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4. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Joint work with Lee Fleming (Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School) and David Chen (Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of... View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

off technically difficult, sometimes dangerous, installations around the city. Their elaborate, thin-stroked graffiti incorporated German-, Gothic-, and Old English-style lettering, and was View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Medium and Message: The Role of the Media in Establishing Institutional Logics

By: Mukti Khaire and Erika Richardson
Research on industry institutional logics has provided insights into the factors that influence organizational behavior and actions. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of how industry logics emerge from societal-level values, get disseminated, and become... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Media; Organizations; Behavior; Societal Protocols; Fashion Industry; India
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  • 20 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild

Keywords: by Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky & Max H. Bazerman
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

Before last week’s election, polls and pundits suggested that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was doomed to failure, because it could not attract enough votes from women, who saw him as a misogynist—and worse. Conventional wisdom... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • July–August 2020
  • Article

Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work

By: Brad Bitterly and Alison Wood Brooks
Humor is widely considered essential in personal relationships, but in leaders, it’s seen as an ancillary behavior. Though some leaders use humor instinctively, many more could wield it purposefully. Humor helps build interpersonal trust and high-­quality work... View Details
Keywords: Managing People; Humor; Leadership; Relationships
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  • 22 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Banking

    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details