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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2009
- Article
Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It
By: Benjamin Edelman
The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: Existing protocols allow only a finite set of computer numbers ("IP addresses"), and central authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: Sharing... View Details
Keywords: Internet; Performance Capacity; Technology Networks; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Policy; Price; Information Technology Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It." Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications 14 (2009): 95–106. (Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Science.) (Featured in Working Knowledge: When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses) (Circulated in 2008 as Running Out of Numbers? The Impending Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It.)
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become... View Details
- December 2019
- Supplement
The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids (B)
By: Erik Snowberg, Trevor Fetter and Amy W. Schulman
This case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders.
In 2007, Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Addiction; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Launch; Ethics; Society; Pharmaceutical Industry
Snowberg, Erik, Trevor Fetter, and Amy W. Schulman. "The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-423, December 2019.
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
professorship? Why not endow a scholarship? Why not endow a laboratory?" Bolnick said. In the long run, he said, this kind of assistance is more valuable than doing nothing and, in the medium term, business will benefit from an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by changing people’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Comunale Abstract— This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2012
- Working Paper
Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior
Substantial research with adult populations has found that selfish impulses are less likely to be pursued when decisions are publicly observable. To the best of our knowledge, however, this behavioral regularity has not been systematically explored as potential... View Details
Keywords: Research; Age Characteristics; Behavior; Decisions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Announcements; Situation or Environment
Houser, Daniel, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan. "Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-073, February 2012.
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
early-life-cycle firms facing high information asymmetries benefit from protections against the market for corporate control by making more valuable long-term investments and reducing myopic behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
gun restrictions. Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
the company, tap into management skills, leverage existing technologies, and use existing compensation and HR functions. But while you are protected from failure, your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the argument that counterfeit competence is driven by self-protection, we find individuals do not predict they would experience such a boost (Study 5) and that cheating after threat offers benefits similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered
By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; Mexico; United States
Maurer, Noel. "The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-108, June 2010.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance
By: Paul Green, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may seem... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Belongingness; Motivation; Job Design; Field Experiment; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Job Design and Levels
Green, Paul, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats. "Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-073, February 2017.
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
economically important, is driven by compensation consultants' tendencies and by firms' governance-related frictions, and is associated with lower ROA. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
visible intervention, like the innovation contest, has both benefits and risks. Our findings suggest benefits such as increased engagement with work View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
opportunities for creating shared value are closely related to a company’s particular business, and in areas most important to the business. Here a company can benefit the most economically View Details