Publications

Keywords: Strategy; Global Range

1 Jul 2010
Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchies in Global Organizations

Keywords: Status and Position; Organizations

May 20, 2010
Article

Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies

Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Diversity

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1 Mar 2010
Conference Presentation

Language Mandates, Power & Emotions in Globally Distributed Teams

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Emotions; Power and Influence

1 Feb 2010
Conference Presentation

Language Mandates, Power & Emotions in Globally Distributed Teams

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Emotions

January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Gobi Partners and DMG

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Thomas G. Tsao, founding general partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but finding a replacement with the... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; China

Educators

1 Jul 2009
Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy

Keywords: Communication; Status and Position

2009
Working Paper

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton

In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and... View Details

Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks

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01 May 2009
Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy

Keywords: Communication; Status and Position

2009
Chapter

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

By: Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff

A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Finance; Labels; Measurement and Metrics

1 Feb 2008
Talk

Language Proficiency as a Stigma in International Work

1 Jan 2007
Conference Presentation

Language Proficiency as a Stigma in International Work

2006
Book

Design-Inspired Innovation

By: James Utterback, Bengt–Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez, Sten Ekman, Susan Walsh Sanderson, Bruce Tether and Roberto Verganti

When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development

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November 2006
Article

Strategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages

By: Roberto Verganti

29 Sep 2006
Conference Presentation

Walking through Jelly: Uneven Language Proficiency and Disrupted Collaboration

2006
Working Paper

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

By: Jerry R. Green and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

1 May 2006
Conference Presentation

Language Proficiency as a Stigma in International Work

2006
Working Paper

Identity, Interpretation and Influence: Positive Community through Language among San Pedro Longshoremen

By: Kathleen L. McGinn

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August 2005 (Revised July 2014)
Case

Can Bollywood Go Global?

By: Geoffrey Jones, Namrata Arora, Surachita Mishra and Alexis Lefort

Considers the opportunities and challenges facing Indian film producers in accessing the global film market. Provides a historical context by describing the history of the cinema and the rise of Hollywood to global dominance by the 1920s. Although film industries... View Details

Keywords: History; Competition; Film Entertainment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Product Development; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India

Educators

5 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005
Conference Presentation

Language Challenges in International Work: The Impact of Uneven Proficiency in the Lingua Franca

By: T. Beyene, P.J. Hinds and C. D. Cramton