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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
response to unexpected endogenous or exogenous threats to meeting work goals. Managers employed two distinct forms of redundant communication to mobilize team members toward mitigating potentially threatening discrepant events—unforeseen... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
has a distinctive culture. Don't assume you understand it even if you have done business elsewhere in the Middle East. It's going to take another generation for businesses in this region to approximate Western models. If you are... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
flaky, unreliable, art-based processes. We reject this premise. Our close examination of art-based processes shows that they're understandable and reliable, capable of sophisticated innovation at levels many "scientific"... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
only what is traded, proves integral to constructing legitimacy, thus suggesting a practice-based view of moral markets. The professionals, including a group of "gatekeepers," construct a narrative distinction between their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408095 Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big? Harvard Business School Case 409-047 Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
level, an organization has to be established with the capabilities to understand the total system of systems, manage external interfaces with the multiple stakeholders, and coordinate the integration of its component parts. At the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
& Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry and reviews and applies key ideas of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
organizations were able to: CollaborateEngage in discovery-driven learning Make integrative decisions Our leaders' uniform emphasis on fostering these three capabilities will not surprise anyone familiar with existing research on... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and small states, and is most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects are economically meaningful and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
up-or-out knowledge organization, we assess the distinct effects of demographic match with superiors and demographic match with peers on the exit of junior professionals. We find largely cooperative effects of cross-level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
innovation in this industry. We consider the relative importance of key factors such as geographic and within-firm capabilities and the role of financial resources. We find that location in a region of concentrated expertise and prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
incremental improvements to it. Each firm has its own assessment of the market potential for the radical innovation, and the reliability of these market forecasts can differ. We show that when the entrant's market-assessment capability is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
software modules and in another case conferred distinct strategic advantages on a firm (by permitting substitution of an at-risk software module without substantial change to the rest of the system). The experiment supports our hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Toffel Periodical:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace