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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
focus primarily on their internal capabilities—have realized this and pursued strategies that not only aggressively further their own interests but also promote their ecosystems' overall health. . . . The Keystone Advantage Keystone View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
ethics at its core is about excellence and high attainment rather than misdeeds and malfeasance. But we do pay attention to misconduct, and I have seen many types over the years—from the garden-variety deceptions and betrayals that sap morale and waste human energy to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
twentieth-century industrial organization structures to twenty-first-century information-based organization structures. Q: In your novel, though Barton had been willing to critique his predecessor for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
his team were bringing business rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
with age. Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser, and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract Substantial evidence... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
under the supervision of a "floating" manager responsible for several such stores. They received above-market pay, partially in the form of performance incentives. The result? More highly energized workers, better cost control,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
problem-solving that conserves scarce cognitive resources. We then review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details
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Executive compensation
report reviews key employee compensation practices at charitable nonprofit organizations based on data derived from the GuideStar database of digitized Form IRS 990 and 990-EZ information. View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
behaviors, and personal decisions. However, leader success depends not only on their ability to make good decisions but also on their ability to help others make wise choices. The approach can also foster more cohesive, empowered organizational culture. In this... View Details
- 19 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a mission I believed in and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
he became the youngest state banking commissioner in the United States when he was appointed to that position in Utah. He left this post in 1952 to organize the Bank of Utah in Ogden. A year later, he became president of the Lockhart... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
M. Viceira Abstract—Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoscedastic macroeconomic dynamics and time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks. Consumers' first-order condition for the real risk-free interest rate takes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
microeconomic competitiveness in Mexico will be used there by the President’s Office on Strategic Planning and Regional Development. “Now is a very good time for Mexico,” adds Ramirez. “We have a fully democratic government for the first time in 71 years. Fox has... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
organizations we analyzed. Personal feelings played a more important role in forming work relationships—not friendships at work but job-oriented relationships—than is commonly acknowledged. They were even... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
transcontinental [railroad] became.” 36 Regulation supported the abilities of companies in other industries to become larger corporations as well, and companies sometimes subsumed other organizations with related functions required for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
experience at HLS and HBS because students take their first-year classes with their section peers. Since the first two years of the program allow for joint degree students to have the same experience as their peers solely at HLS or HBS, JD/MBAs often View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specialized form of central planning. “A change from the current insane, superstitious, or religious belief in official money may occur sooner than expected.” Xingang, on the other hand, worried that digital currencies are instruments... View Details