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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

management level.” If only they could be heard. Often these individuals remain buried in hierarchy, impacting only their isolated areas of influence. In the working paper Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • November 2003 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)

By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Soon after the death of the firm's legendary founder, the individuals then serving as chairman and as president--Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively--talked about the future of their firm. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a private investment firm, had grown... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Competitive Advantage; Valuation
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  • October 10, 2023
  • Article

10 Reasons Why Inclusion Is a Competitive Advantage

By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their third strategy is creating an inclusive environment that allows all employees to... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement
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  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

value, meanings, or enactment of an identity. I also develop a theoretical model and propositions that generate insights into how individuals respond to identity threats originating from a range of sources. I use this theory to explore individual and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

here”? Would the result have been the same? We can at least hypothesize several notions based on early research regarding remote work. Many talented people love it. Some of the reasons they love it, such as the ability to gain more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

explained, is that such issues are deemed too threatening to organizational harmony or to individuals' career advancement. As a result, the validity of a principal U.S. rationale for the Vietnam War, the "domino theory," was... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

them." Alcácer advises companies to consider sending an advance team to live in a target locale to research the market and business models before expanding. Another problem with following competitors: an increasing risk that those... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G. Rukstad, the late senior View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

Few people see a relationship between tipping and bribing. But consider this: In places where people tip heavily, bribes are more likely to exchange hands as well. Research shows that there's actually a fine line between the socially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

have been recipients of it say that it’s humiliating,” she says. "It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?" Instead, Neeley takes a page from the late J. Richard Hackman, an View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

  Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

stores to 2,227. This surprising resurgence piqued the interest of Ryan Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who studies how mature organizations and industries faced with... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail
  • January 2018 (Revised August 2020)
  • Background Note

Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Samuel Clemens and Olivia Hull
In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product... View Details
Keywords: Continuous Improvement; Continuous Development; Continuous Delivery; Continuous Integration; Product Development Processes; Computer Programming; Agile; Waterfall; Software Applications; Software Engineering; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Quality; Product Marketing; Product; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • 2008
  • Chapter

When Learning and Performance Are at Odds: Confronting the Tension

By: Sara Jean Singer and A. C. Edmondson
This chapter explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. We start with the general proposition that learning promotes performance and then describe several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior
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  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1815370 Strategy as Innovation: Emergent Goal Formation in a Nascent Industry Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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