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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Innovation and Invention; History; United States
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Models of Best Practice in Integrated Reporting 2015

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot
In March of 2015, the authors reviewed the integrated reports of 25 multinational companies that participated in the International Integrated Reporting Council's (IIRC's) Pilot Programme Business Network. Because it was not until December 2013 that companies had any... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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  • 20 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Standard-Essential Patents

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Jean Tirole; Legal Services
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

to create a new survey instrument that defines 11 factors and associated survey questions that will be used to understand the level of comfort and self-confidence that founders and non-founders have with various dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership. These 11... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 03 Apr 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan
  • Research Summary

How a Multicultural Social Environment Influences Creativity and Innovation

My second stream of research draws on my first stream of work to examine how a multicultural social environment influences individuals’ creative thinking and performance at a global workplace. In an on-going project, I found that individuals high in cultural... View Details
  • Research Summary

The Transition to Retirement

By: Teresa M. Amabile

My current major research program is the Retirement Transitions Study: a broad study of retiring professionals' everyday experiences, including identification with work; identity stability, change, and development; meaningfulness of work; changes in life structure,... View Details

Keywords: Careers; Psychology; Creativity; Identity; Retirement; Meaning
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Employees; Human Capital; Retail Industry
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  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

identification documentation, let alone a credit score. Loan officers often end up relying on qualitative information and intuition, all the while knowing that these loans may be vital to the nation's economy. "Small businesses in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

can increase employees' identification with the organization. Benefits of returning to the office do not require everyone to be there every day, by any means. By thoughtfully and fairly customizing the right mix of remote and office work,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

identification of every employee with the firm as a whole and its overall goals. Remember that four-drive theory argues that the innate pressure to fulfill all four drives together has served to evolve a social contracting skill as a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

identification and the pronouns they use. “That question says from the beginning that we choose to value our employees as individuals.” In daily meetings and communications, leaders and coworkers promote the value of diverse opinions and... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

resource-based view and identification of core competencies are effective frameworks for strategy formulation. If the company has a great human capital base, with skilled, experienced, and highly motivated employees, then striving to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

"One difference between shareholder and stakeholder management may be in the identification of those carrying the greatest weight in a decision." In fact, the late management professor H. Jeff Smith, in his classic article, questioned... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

the identification of Unilever as being in the fast-moving consumer goods business. By 1990 Unilever no longer fitted Cole's description of thirty years previously of being "several different fleets . . . doing all kinds of different... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

pro-social words used were nice, giving, and helpful; examples of anti-social words were rude, stingy, and selfish. We found that luxury-primed participants identified significantly fewer pro-social words than non-luxury-primed participants. However, there was no... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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