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- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
leadership means understanding the emotions of leaders and followers. Brain science is making me question much of the literature I've read on leadership." These comments call for the question: Is there really a formula for great... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level, and... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
the literature I have seen. Obviously, it will depend on the range of services to be delivered and the nature of capabilities a firm already possesses. Q: Your research covered several different industries. Did your findings vary by... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
they go beyond earlier research to look at the broad context of call center service delivery. "Although much literature has recently been written about various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," write... View Details
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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
Literature The Baker Old Class collection is Baker Library’s first circulating collection and is a resource integral to tracing the development and growth of global business and industry from the late 19th century to the first half of the... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
appraisals. There is an overriding contradiction at the center of the Bank's approach to public participation. On the one hand, Bank literature and policy statements are replete with testimonials to the importance of participation and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
outlines answers in the contemporary literature to these questions, starting with questions about the nature and possibility of value incommensurability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50622 February 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
innovation-to-productivity studies. Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? Authors:Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh Periodical:Journal of Economic Literature 45, no. 2 (June 2007): 331-372 Abstract Diversified business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
something in the mind of the individual. People perceive a problem or opportunity and have some thoughts on how to approach it. But when individuals come together as a team, ideas can be built on and modified to become something larger. There has been a notion in the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
degree in Russian literature from Harvard. The colonel offered to write a letter of recommendation for Hall, but only if it was addressed to Harvard Business School. "I told him I couldn't see myself at Harvard. I was in a war zone, and I... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments? By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The literature on the competitiveness of locations has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43830 Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination By: Valentine, Melissa, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—In this paper, we integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Behavior and Impact of Patent Trolls: A Survey By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We survey the empirical literature on non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation behavior and its consequences. We document both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Rohingya’s spirits and break the monotony of life at a refugee camp. But, Hussam wondered if small work opportunities could help refugees reclaim their roles as providers, bring meaning to their days, and ease some of their psychological pain. “There's a lot of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards. The regulatory capture View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding