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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich
  • February 2025 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire

By: Lauren Cohen, Mayra Gazel and Sophia Pan
As Lachlan Murdoch left the courthouse, he puzzled on the next phase of his battle for control over his father Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. With Rupert aging and his siblings determined to retain their voting rights, Lachlan was convinced that the future of News... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

By: Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Much academic work asserts a relationship between the design of a complex system and the manner in which this system evolves over time. In particular, designs which are modular in nature are argued to be more "evolvable," in that these designs facilitate making... View Details

Keywords: Product Design; Adaptation; Software; Information Technology Industry
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    Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

    * Top 10 Technology Books of 2020 (Forbes)
    * 10 Best Business Books of 2020 (Inc. Magazine)
    * Top Shelf Pick of Best Business Books 2020: Technology & Innovation (Strategy + Business)
    * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

    • 01 Sep 2020
    • News

    Ink: The Habit of Innovation

    can kill innovation energy: the plague of the zombie project. Do you shuffle and linger on, sucking the innovation energy out View Details
    Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
    • Article

    A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery

    By: Ting Zhang, Tami Kim, Alison Wood Brooks, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
    Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule" paradigm to show that individuals underestimate the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Information Management; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

    By: Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner and Ratnika Prasad
    A variety of factors is leading to fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland, with an emphasis on the combination of conservation goals and private investments. But the barriers to successfully achieving attractive financial returns and desirable... View Details
    Keywords: Financing; Forestry; Environmental Management; Natural Resources; Financing and Loans
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    • 2022
    • Interview

    Prime Venture Partners Podcast: #104 Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School, on Creating the Conditions to Create, The Value Of Trust & The Power of Diversity

    By: Tarun Khanna and Shripati Acharya
    Tarun Khanna, Professor at the Harvard Business School chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners regarding: Creating the Conditions to Create, State of Entrepreneurship: India vs China, The Value of Trust in Entrepreneurship, Working with... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Trust
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    • 18 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

    sociodemographic characteristics. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration, and Ascarza, View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 14 Nov 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

    (AdobeStock/Kostiantyn) There are numerous studies of character traits in leaders. Human resource experts have advised us on what to look for in those who would be potential leaders. Management development... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

    By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    Work scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks... View Details
    Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Delegation; Behavioral Operations; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Industry
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    • 06 Jan 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

    view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett
    • 04 Nov 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Real Cost of Bribery

    understanding of the benefits of bribery—facilitating entry into a market, for starters," says Serafeim, an assistant professor in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Apr 2020
    • News

    Managing Through Crisis: How To Be Happy During COVID-19

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework

    By: Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
    This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms during periods of rapid innovation. Focusing on... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Temporality; Context; Microfoundations; Business History; Competitive Advantage; Change; Innovation and Invention
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      Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

      An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details
      • 21 Apr 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The New Math of Customer Relationships

      and The Service Profit Chain and The Value Profit Chain (with Lenoard A. Schlesinger). Some of the ideas go back to Heskett's 1986 book, View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization

      By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
      In this article, we build on the recent efforts of scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research... View Details
      Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Resource Allocation; Research; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking; Growth and Development Strategy
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      • 18 Sep 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

      arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 07 Feb 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

      frustration or sadness. Wolf differentiates those expressions from anger directed at others. In the paper Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as... View Details
      Keywords: by Roberta Holland