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- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
around, who would travel to inquire how they, too, could get connected. The Jacobs place stood out in daylight as well. Next to the house was a windmill several stories tall,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
family and societal levels: family-of-origin social class moderates effects of maternal employment, and childhood exposure to female employment within society can substitute for the influence of maternal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages instead lead to lower effort with substantial targeting behavior. A reference-dependent theoretical framework suggests an explanation for this differential impact: when individuals place less value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
behavior translates to truly macroscopic levels, and what its consequences may be, remains unknown. Here, we use call detail records (CDRs) to examine the population dynamics and manifestations of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
actions with social or future benefits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53178 A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies By: Giacomin, Valeria... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
system firm put in place to align innovation. These cases help us to identify the range of outsourcing strategies that system firms could pursue and the factors that appear... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
"working in present time." When the actors perform, they know the dialogue in the script as much as a musician knows the notes in a score. But they want to arrive at a place in the script feeling... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
"There is always a tendency in communities or in any social organization to have this boundary and say in or out," Lakhani says. "This might be happening in isolated places... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
transforms them from "box-checkers" to "frame-makers." Frame-makers understand how important it is to attach the tools they create to C-level... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
KaBOOM!’s total annual number of playgrounds built by as much as a factor of 10. The case explores how KaBOOM! evaluated its goals and determined a strategy to achieve the scale required to meet its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
prioritize social benefits over shareholder reward. CEOs adding their signature to the pledge included Apple's Tim Cook, JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, IBM's Ginni Rometty, and GM's Mary... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
social sector, and it can guide businesses in bringing together the various actors in their ecosystems to help remedy some of the world's most urgent problems. In the process, companies will find economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
name of the newspaper. Within seconds, he located three bios for Perez, information about her work with the UC Irvine alumni club, the citation for an "up-and-coming journalist" award she'd won, links to her personal pages on several... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
be used to forecast product life cycles at scale. In two empirical studies, one of search interest in social networks and the other of new computer sales, we demonstrate that our model outperforms leading... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
world's leading iron mining company. Regulatory obstacles and unexpected costs have placed the project in jeopardy. Outside Brazil, however, Baosteel has been growing rapidly, and market trends favor an overseas plant. Baosteel must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
ED. We propose that the dedicated queuing system yielded shorter throughput times because it provided physicians with greater ability and incentive to manage their patients' flow through the ED from arrival View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne