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  • October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Twiga Foods: Revolutionizing African Retail (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Pippa Tubman Amerding and Wale Lawal
Twiga is a leading agricultural produce supplier in Kenya offering services to mostly informal retailers. Under Peter Njonjo, a co-founder and Twiga’s new CEO, the company is considering multiple options for expanding its business, including offering packaged foods and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; Nairobi
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  • 2013
  • Article

Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs

By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can enable or constrain organizational decisions, practices, and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 2019
  • Article

The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
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  • Research Summary

Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap:  America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

worked 27 million delivery shifts between Feb. 1, 2019 and Aug. 1, 2020. The typical driver worked 3.4 days per week, for a total of 9.1 hours spent actively making deliveries.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

relevant for the third sector. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a global CSO, until recently headquartered in Oaxaca (Mexico), which supports the sustainable management of the world's forests. In this... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Measure Economic Activity at Scale By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

favor posted prices; our estimates suggest the latter is more important for explaining the shift away from auctions. We provide supporting evidence from a survey of eBay sellers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

the AAR; the process must start at the same time as the activity being reviewed; lessons must be linked explicitly to future actions, and everyone involved must be held accountable. The midst of a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 09 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure

Keywords: by Christopher G. Myers, Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • May 2024
  • Article

Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms

By: Caroline Marra and Ariel D. Stern
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can enable more patient-centric therapeutic development by generating evidence that captures how patients feel and function, enabling decentralized trial designs that increase participant inclusivity and convenience, and collecting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Health Testing and Trials; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 01 Jun 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

organizations ready to take advantage of the talent surge? Just how prepared are employers? Are incentives and support systems for returnees to the workforce in place? Have we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman; Legal Services
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

more important than when information is monopolized by the government. If not constrained, government’s monopoly control of information, combined with its incentives to shape support for its policies, may at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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