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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Such motives spring from the humanitarian values possessed by the organizations or individuals involved. Utilitarian motives, on the other hand, cater to the partners' organizational needs, focusing on issues like risk management or the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process." Flexible And Nimble HBS professor Kent Bowen, a technology and operations management expert who... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
economies. It’s also testimony to a darker phenomenon. A recent study reported in MIT Sloan Management Review concludes that from April through September, the main reason for quitting in the US (10 times more important than compensation)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
making up 40 percent of the Class of 2014. But a new case study shows that there's still a ways to go. “We want them to grapple with what it takes to build an organization, to leverage diversity and create an inclusive culture."... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world," Nohria said. Indeed, the anniversary has spawned a survey of several thousand alumnae on work-life balance and a new case study on the female experience... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
complementarity theory, we propose that although extraverted leadership enhances group performance when employees are passive, this effect reverses when employees are proactive, because extraverted leaders are less receptive to proactivity. In View Details
Keywords: 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
searches.) Studies show that customers prefer waiting when the work being done is transparent—even when the waits are longer or the results are no better than those obtained with shorter waits. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Organizations increasingly rely on teams to carry out critical strategies and operational tasks. How do teams learn, and what factors are most important to team learning? This paper reports on current perspectives and findings that address these questions, looking at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of income to real-world poor people in the context of dictator games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
demonstrated their capacity to build a HCHP firm and to study them more formally. My own interest in HCHP companies began at Corning, Inc. I started my career there, after earning my Ph.D. in organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
demands can sometimes cost more than the revenue actually generated. By studying numerous companies and their customers across multiple industries, the researchers learned that the way firms derive profit through the customer management... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
getting underway and is not conclusive, Huang believes that the study of FDI in the context of local entrepreneurship in Asia deserves a closer look. "I'm not claiming local entrepreneurship is the only determinant of FDI," he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
with organizational culture, a matter of interest to him throughout his career. My own favorite of Bennis's writing is a curious little book called Geeks & Geezers. It was the subject of one of these columns in 2002. (Can it really be... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both debt and equity-into public and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
environment qualities, are systematically missing. Regions would benefit from a closer look at the insights from businesses when developing their strategies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49625 in press View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
hypertension." Why Diabetes Is A Good Case But first, diabetes. Beaulieu chose diabetes as a context in which to spark discussion on organizational and financial systems for several reasons, she said. It is a very prevalent disease:... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how different time zones affect employees’ ability to communicate in a paper published in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding