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  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

processing costs affects organization boundaries, business models, interdependence, leadership, identity, search, and intellectual property. We suggest that much of the received wisdom in these areas of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

body and can potentially be harnessed by organizations and governments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=dunn%20aknin%20norton%20CD.pdf August 2013 Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

courses were general and descriptive ("Economic Resources of the United States," "Railroad Organization and Finance") and taught primarily through lectures from the economist's point of view. The situation remained... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

  Publications April 2015 Routledge Strong Brands, Strong Relationships By: Fournier, Susan, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery Abstract—From the editorial team of the groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry runs). This paper proposes that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

well as emotional and business factors) every organization has to find its own optimal solution neuroscience in the last 20 years has proven that current business theory which basically has been developed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
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  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and organization of the market when a match was operating and when it was not. After the GI match ended,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

important role for economic logic in the policy-making process, I criticize economic theory when used at the exclusion of other social science knowledge. Indeed, my central goal is to provide evidence for the need for social sciences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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