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Partners - Case Method Project

Malia Coloma-Smith Inderkum High School Sacramento, CA CA 12 of 65 Marcy Cooper Los Gatos High School Los Gatos, CA Subjects: AP U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. Government CA 13 of 65 Kristin Cowles Laguna Beach High School... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

MA Rachel Cooke Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Sudbury, MA CA Marcy Cooper Los Gatos High School Los Gatos, CA Subjects: AP U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. Government NJ Nicole Cooper Teaneck... View Details

June 2012
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Leadership Is a Conversation

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships

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Events - Business History

Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 10 10 Nov... View Details

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

by reconstructing what some of those anticipations were. Power, Competitiveness, and Advice Taking: Why the Powerful Don't Listen Authors:L.P. Tost, F. Gino, and R. Larrick Publication:,Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

occurs because words of beneficiaries strengthen one’s sense of belongingness, a key driver of human behavior. Employees, in fact, seek to belong—and seek to enhance their sense of belongingness in work settings. We conducted two studies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

receiving creativity scores 23 percent lower than the average of the other conditions. In the other three conditions, creativity was about the same.] "As human beings, we pay more attention to negative information because it is a signal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was listed as #14 on the Porchlight Business Best Seller list in 2019. Amy C. Edmondson : Named the Most Influential International Thinker in View Details

13 Mar 2005
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The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

domestic civil society and when their buyers are more sensitive to such exposure. At the program design level, we find that suppliers improve more when the monitoring regime signals a cooperative approach and when auditors are highly... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Economics category for The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). Victoria Ivashina : Finalist for the 2018 Pagano & Zechner... View Details

08 Feb 2010
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Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do more good for Internet freedom... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
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Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details

Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America

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18 Mar 2019
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Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

employees are in limbo between their home and work roles. This unstructured time gives rise to “role ambiguity,” leaving people with the unpleasant feeling of being unsure what they’re expected to do. Sources: The Organization for Economic View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

University in 2020. Julian De Freitas : Awarded the Goethals Teaching Prize by Harvard University in spring of 2020. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a Hodgson Fund Grant from Harvard University in 2020. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a Pershing Square Fund for... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of a 2018 Webby Award for Best Use of Machine Learning from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Streetchange... View Details

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

oils. “My day-to-day interactions in the ER inform my art, and that grounds me,” he says. “Dealing with the dualities of sickness and health, life and death, and hope and despair makes me both a better human being and a better doctor.”... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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