State Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

a tremendous return on loyalty and engagement from workers who hear from their supervisors. Do exit interviews, add to your performance review questions like “Have you thought about leaving? What would cause you to do that?” Find out... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

assessment from the solving phase. In most cases, innovators engage simultaneously in definition/solution/assessment stages and iteratively define the problem and its solution. Open innovation breaks this vertical integration and forces... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

a challenge for researchers who wish to study them and for the governments, business leaders, and citizens striving to improve life quality in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers provide tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Organization Science 21, no. 6 (November-December 2010) Abstract This paper investigates whether an employee's perception of customer wealth affects his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

in two major product lines for a large enterprise software vendor to examine the use and success of pricing and product strategies. Regarding pricing, the paper demonstrates that the vendor engages in significant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

example, both companies know that their investors are very concerned about the large amount of cash generated in oil and gas, but each has committed to explaining its use in a different way. While BP is very willing to state they will... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

competition for executive level visibility, further their solutions for organizational control problems and engage in 'credentializing' (Power, 1992) to support their claims. At MultiBank, accountants drew on the institutional logic of... View Details