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  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

is capital intensive and when it is difficult for headquarters to identify the value-maximizing investment strategy for the business unit. In evaluating the performance of profit centers, rate-of-return measures like ROA are likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

in reinforcing stereotypes, which conflate leadership with masculinity. When the industry or subject of the case is traditionally associated with men and masculinity, the leader-equals-male effect compounds. "A robust body of research has... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • Web

Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

deliver measurable financial, environmental, and social impacts. Harvard University Office for Sustainability Our mission is to advance solutions to evolving global health and environmental challenges that benefit the common good by... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

In contrast, we find no increase in crimes against men or gender-neutral crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 6th ed., edited by Lawton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

participants to ask questions and see other people also interacting with the presenter. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/glOfUOMYMIXCqiWsSiCd][/div] The live experience included interactions with six to 12 strangers. Before watching the video, participants took a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

establishments in the US that they certified to the OHSAS 18001 standard. The researchers used automated and manual techniques to match workplaces across these and other datasets. To estimate the effects of certification, they compared... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

to the job post to get more information—an indication of their interest to researchers. Participants clicked on job listings for 7,900 companies, with 7,300 companies having diversity scores. Job applicants seek diverse firms The average View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

begin a study with such distinctly practical footing, the researchers devised a set of experiments to measure executives' and admissions officers' resistance to this phenomenon. The first study asked professional university admissions... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

three different levels: How can export competitiveness be improved, is export competitiveness (still) a feasible policy approach, and is export competitiveness an appropriate policy objective? How can the effectiveness of export... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

occurred—across four experiments, we find that revealing both successes and failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. This effect holds regardless of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

internet,” as Avinash Umesh Rao calls it) rather than an assessment of its long-term importance. Umesh Rao was somewhat skeptical of the metaverse’s effect on productivity: “Productivity at the end of the day will continue to remain a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2012
  • Article

The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are... View Details
Keywords: Headquarters; Subsidiaries; Multinational Corporations; Organization Design; Administrative Heritage; International Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Organizational Design; Multinational Firms and Management; Size; Business Headquarters; Global Strategy
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  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

disparity in the wealth of nations, in spite of the fact that technology adoption lags have shortened dramatically in the past few decades. In their paper An Exploration of Technology Diffusion, Comin and fellow researcher Bart Hobijn described a scientific model to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Diversity and Firm Performance By: Zhang, Letian Abstract—How does a firm’s gender diversity affect its performance? Existing work has shown conflicting evidence—some finding a positive effect of gender diversity while others finding a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks 5 hours per week 6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns... View Details