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Anil Doshi

economists, operations management scholars, organizational theorists, and others studying topics ranging from open innovation to information technology to product innovation. I have borrowed freely from... View Details

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gianpiero Petriglieri , INSEAD Authenticity in Midair Laura Morgan Roberts , Antioch University Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities Panel: Performance & Appearance Tina Opie , Babson College Hair Penalties and Other View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Research Available on World Wide Web

will produce hundreds of new cases and dozens of books, as well as numerous articles and working papers. This activity covers an enormous variety of business and organizational issues; taken as a whole, it constitutes an unmatched... View Details

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2016
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Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching

led the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS and was the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration. He also served as senior associate dean and director of faculty recruitment from 2005 to 2008. At Georgetown, Thomas is... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

often need organizational change that the retailer is reluctant to make. Implementing analytic skills might require collaboration across multiple functions. Analytics are simply not "fun" for many people. Q: How can managers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

he writes. In his working paper "Flexibility: The New Social Contract between Individuals and Firms?," Bradach studies independent contractors, companies that use their services, and staffing agencies that bring the two parties together.... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Organizational Behavior (LEAD). Rae Johnson Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist whose research centers on the intersections between embodiment and social justice. Chair of the Somatic Studies... View Details

23 Jan 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Sports: Lessons for Managers

Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors This field-based study of the Union of European Football Associations and its main international sporting event,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

our next cohort of Fellows, who will study the impact that models of enterprise ownership have on societal and organizational objectives. You can find the link to apply here . Applications are due by 11:59pm... View Details

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Residents & Fellows Course Value-Based Health Care Delivery for Residents & Fellows There is growing recognition that true health care reform will require major strategic and organizational changes in the way health care is actually... View Details

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-057.pdf Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

approach has supposed." Marie Taillard adds, "we are shifting away from thinking that we can predict or control the behavior of others ." Because economics is a study of value, Deepak Alse comments that "what we need... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2015
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Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language differences “as the most divisive,... View Details

Career Coach

Sasha Grinshpun

have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

meaninglessness, uncertainty, and boredom. These negative psychological states increase nostalgia because nostalgia is restorative. After conducting dozens of studies using diverse methods ranging from qualitative text analysis,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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