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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and affect welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Author:Alnoor Ebrahim Abstract What does it mean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although existing theory posits that increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the one hand, arguments based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard... View Details
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Harvard Business School
I am going to stay here and try to make a difference, and I am going to start with pulling this organization together.'" He explained that he counted on members of the class of 1970 "to staff the new View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power, and... View Details
- Blog
How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
At HBS, research and case development are tightly intertwined. Cases provide the opportunity for faculty to develop ideas, gain insight into nascent research questions, and illustrate theory in practice. In addition, case writing provides... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
for clusters” Pisano and Buciuni looked to four industrial clusters in northeastern Italy for their answer. Italy "is a great laboratory because it's been historically organized around these very specific districts all over the country.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
something other than just recruitment activities would be necessary to create the kind of progressive change needed at HBS. At UC Berkeley he and I agreed that we would combine our efforts to usher in an organization to be our collective... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
opportunity, marshaling of required resources, exploitation of opportunity, and harvesting." In other words, "entrepreneurship" is a way of managing that occurs in organizations large or small, youthful or experienced. Underpinning... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and their firm's overall performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a... View Details