Culture Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

create a course of action. She acknowledges that this is easier said than done, especially when a bad boss has created a culture of fear. But teaming up to effect change need not require a palace coup.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

results for the setting of executive compensation and illegal financial accounting. Finally, we outline some managerial and policy implications to blunt these adverse incentive effects. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50417 Will a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2008
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The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

for today if a similar meltdown of globalization is to be avoided. Q: Did putting the Handbook together change your own thinking? A: One of the most surprising revelations for Jonathan and myself was just how many people are working in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207069 ThedaCare: System Strategy Harvard Business School Case 708-424 Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

retail trading areas. We hypothesize two effects, cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may change over time and may differ between the catalog and online channels. We find that opening... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Cultural Change (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit and mortgage their land-use rights. We use... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

changing the revenue-generating model by incorporating an online market place within "The Blonde Salad," but which strategy and timeline would she need to achieve her aim? Should Ferragni's shoe line, a separate company with a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2004
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Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

letter actually getting to his friend—there were six referrals. This idea has passed into popular culture and urban folklore as the six degrees of separation. That's where it lay until a decade ago when a few researchers out of the Santa... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details

02 Aug 2010
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Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

the attributes underlying their relative value. So, the Indian art market is an interesting case to understand how entrepreneurs may take advantage of changing contexts and build on the actions of other actors in the ecosystem to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2008
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Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2021
Teaching Plan

Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; San Francisco

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Purchase

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

participation, a result also consistent with household self-reports. Several experiments find an important role for trust in insurance participation. We find mixed evidence that subtle psychological manipulations affect purchase and no evidence that modest amounts of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2019
Case

GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull

In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details

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Purchase

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries Author:Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012) Abstract This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

never change. Since its founding in 1911, the company operated under a set of principles articulated by founder Thomas Watson and became known for a strong culture and a commitment to fairness and social responsibility. As IBM entered its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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