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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores, factories, consumers, or workers, or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
wrong? In their article Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs, which appeared in the September 2011 issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Ely and coauthors... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association The New Empirical Economics of Management By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the relationships between exploitation, perturbation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
more. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51866 Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory By: Colpan, Asli M., and Takashi Hikino Abstract—This working paper examines the historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Traditional capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing, and living their lives. As psychological View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics—jointly affecting all R&D scientists—for the progression of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne