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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
for organizational forms beyond the executive team. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982531 Causes and Consequences of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts Authors:Healy, Paul M., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Summing Up Can Managers Afford to Ignore Predictions in Planning? There is a healthy skepticism when it comes to the reliability of predictions as a basis for planning. Donald Kortalon, commenting on this month's column, cites a number of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
these companies have suffered the consequences for making concessions to the Chinese government rather than sticking to global standards of privacy and censorship. What would happen to the select group of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
new ways technology can improve their businesses. They are more likely to consider the systemic consequences of their Internet propositions. They do not wait for a plan to spring full-blown from the heads of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
substantial policy change over the coming months and years. At Harvard, the combination of renowned faculty, endless student resources and a location at the epicenter of biopharma R&D made it the perfect place for me to learn more... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
the structure of managerial capitalism. Our book addresses this growing chasm between today's people and the organizations upon which they must depend for consumption and employment. The last fifty years have seen the rise of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
beneficiaries," wrote Werker in an e-mail from Liberia, where he was conducting another study. The World Bank was a necessary subject for investigating such issues, continued Werker. "While the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
families, presidential candidates, and some citizens on the other. But is this just as much a struggle in which Apple is facing the inexorable consequences of IT innovation itself? For those who may have... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
promotion and advertising had long-run consequences on consumers' buying behavior in two ways: by influencing the brand equity and by affecting the consumers' price sensitivity. Jedidi and colleagues then simulated how different promotion... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9
Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
variables. The results suggest that individuals bring to the workplace specific, measurable beliefs about speaking up, and that these implicit theories operate largely independently of current leader behaviors and other current work experiences. Overall, this research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
shelf-space allocation? When are power plays appropriate? When should you exercise power? When should you give in to power? What are the consequences for partner relationships and channel performance? When a... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference. Here is Desai's summary statement to the subcommittee with a link to his full testimony.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne