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- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
family of objectives that have been well studied in the literature for their fairness properties. We deal with the problem of selecting the appropriate objective from this family. We characterize the trade-off achieved between efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational form that is known as free-standing company in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the literature argues that entrepreneurs relied heavily on an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review literature from two separate bodies of literature. Research in psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations sheds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
conditions. Both large and small businesses felt the sting of job losses during the crisis, but small firms were hit harder, took longer to recover, and may still be reeling from the economic fallout. This is consistent with economic View Details
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
literature on this subject is limited because the ideas are still in the early stages of development. I highly recommend Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Wherever You Go, There You Are and his CD Guided Mindfulness Meditation, and Yongey Mingyur... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
an overview of the literature on both areas, and identifies opportunities for creating more effective and useful research. By Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman. 2. Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship How do your coworkers affect your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
effect of external agglomerations may be overestimated because the existing literature abstracted from internal agglomerations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52181 forthcoming Organization Science Sink... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
(c) that some of our people are really very inexperienced and starting from scratch. How do we set up a coaching system? First of all, the literature shows that mentoring systems work best when people select each other, not when they are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
standards. We extend the literature on private politics and organizational self-regulation by identifying several conditions under which codes and monitoring are more likely to be associated with improvements in supply chain working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
specialization, or firm prestige. We discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the literatures on status and groups, along with practical implications for strategic human resource management. The Flattening Firm and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by psychological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
with the convenience of an on-site facility, some busy Google employees found it difficult to stay active. Academic literature would suggest that they just needed the right cues and environment to help them establish a habit they would... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
ant-like and practical. "There is a well-developed literature around self-control issues in the fields of sociology, psychology, and economics," Keinan says. "We all know that people can be too impulsive and yield to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
practical implications to the literature on organizational change, emotions, and language in global organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55473 December 2018 Strategy Science The Strategy in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel