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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Michael Maples
will focus less on layers of management hierarchy and coordination and more on creating networks of access where customers as well as loosely-connected providers of their labor are a key part of the network. “So you won’t need the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
will focus less on layers of management hierarchy and coordination and more on creating networks of access where customers as well as loosely-connected providers of their labor are a key part of the network. “So you won’t need the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
measures via deception. In a first study, we use deceptive self-downloads on SSRN, the leading working paper repository in the social sciences, to show that employees higher in a hierarchy are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
were also proud of their company culture, which de-emphasized traditional company hierarchies and encouraged independent thinking and cooperative working arrangements across departments. Keeping the company private, in their view, had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
driven by intellectual capital formation.” The Dean’s hands-on attention embraced not only the HBS faculty, but also friends, staffers, associates, and friends of friends, all up and down the many hierarchies he traveled through. He... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
is it China, a place into which more resources are going than any other place in the world, and a place with more extraordinary human capital than any other place in the world, and a place (maybe because it's a communist country) that is more obsessed with View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
hierarchy did form (Thyssen hardly ran some sort of democracy), but one that accorded a space of responsibility and decision-making flexibility to subordinate managers. In spite of the fact that he was personally very authoritarian and it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
big way.” This year, just over half of the 204 million Americans who engage in digital video viewing will do so on their smartphone, a 14 percent increase over 2014 according to research firm eMarketer. Kilar ranks his own screen View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
economy.” Just as important, ARD’s support of Digital and dozens of other unproven little companies ushered in a new era of corporate culture. At Digital, the engineer was king. Hierarchy was out. Controlled chaos was in. Like Jack... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
categorical hierarchies and in the ability to reconcile incompatible organizational capabilities. Second, we theorize and attend to the role of emotional frames in innovation adoption. Thus, we advance a model that articulates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
terms of strategic negotiation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism, and economic development. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-049.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace