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- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice Presidents" in other firms, they may... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
is subject to isomorphic pressures, which cannot be completely explained by industry affiliation or peer group membership. Inter-firm professional network connections, such as board interlocks and compensation consultants, provide means... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Many managers interpret Reg FD subjectively, often relying on individual industry norms to decide where to draw the line. Ultimately, the ambiguity of Reg FD leads to considerable variation in the information managers privately provide to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a piece of the action.... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Abstract—To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
receive ideas that are different." “You need to start engaging people from different cultures in a more intense way"—Roy Chua Chua confirmed that belief with a pair of studies that linked the cultural diversity of participants' View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract Professionals are a growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
difficult because of their varied interests and often-conflicting definitions of success. Culture consists of the norms and behaviors in the organization—in other words, everyone's shared understanding of "how things work around... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is too complex, and our ability to model it too limited, for us to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
was highly susceptible to normative pressure and most evident among individuals concerned with self-presentational aspects of appearing biased (Study 1). However, this tendency was often counterproductive, as avoiding race during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
board, their past professional experience, and their political contributions vary with the degree to which the accounting standards they propose are perceived as increasing accounting "relevance" and/or decreasing accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
the company had lost its "human touch" in the process of professionalizing and modernizing to capitalize on the fantastic market opportunities that had opened up in Spain. Some felt that the work was now too structured and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of order, a dislike of deviance, and a greater... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman