collaboration - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

an integral role in the growth of his company, the team’s dynamics were dysfunctional. Lack of communication, mistrust, and refusal to collaborate were some of their biggest challenges. Barker had had enough and was ready to take action,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Feb 2011
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learning challenges presented by rapid knowledge growth, uncertainty, and complexity in dynamic settings. We test whether there are additional performance benefits to using deliberate learning activities and whether the effectiveness of these activities depends on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper explores the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2010
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One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

the project to convince your manager that you understand his or her views. The point is for everyone to contribute to perfect the approach, and do so in a collaborative fashion and with integrity. Beautiful, handcrafted slides don't cut... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

Organizational Growth By: Malter, Daniel Abstract—I propose that an organization's growth potential may suffer if its identity is eclipsed by or confounded with the organizations with which it collaborates and competes. Using status as a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks. Examining Wall Street sell-side equities... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

accountability, collaboration and initiative. Each of these factors lead to winning, and winning reinforces the actions and leads to greater confidence. This holds for external confidence as well. Winning yields positive attention from... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

focused on physical health much more than they have on mental health," says Professor John A. Quelch, Charles Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In collaboration with Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

report their preliminary findings in their working paper BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment. (The collaborative effort addresses each of their particular interests. Karmarkar, an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

is unlikely to materialize without changing payment models and incentives to promote value over volume. Achieving such a seismic shift in incentive structures will require time, energy, and collaborative efforts. As technology advances,... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

2024
Book

The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details

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12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

write a book with four co-authors. How did your collaboration for Pursuing the Competitive Edge come about? A: An earlier book, Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing, that Steve Wheelwright and I wrote, had been... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

and sometimes unique opportunities reflecting their passions. The result was increased brand differentiation and deeper collaborative ties between Mastercard and its bank and merchant partners. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

new external partners and could move quickly into experimentation to accelerate learning and innovation. This case also shows how two very different organizations managed to team across boundaries. Doing so, it emphasizes the human side of inter-organizational View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

thereby bring down prices, ultimately benefiting the poor. To minimize negative public perception, however, companies that find that they are "profiting from the poor" must be willing to publicly address the profit debate, work View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

night while sheltering at home: A French Village. Its 72 episodes across 7 seasons (one for each year between 1940-1946) tell a story of collaboration and resistance under the WWII Vichy government. It has more than a dozen principal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

are you working on now? A: I'm continuing my broader research efforts to understand how the design of knowledge-intensive work affects teamwork, collaboration innovation, and ultimately performance. For example, I'm writing an empirical... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

First Look at New Research: January 17

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First Look: April 21, 2009

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

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First Look: Feb. 9

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

Operations and the Competitive Edge

First Look: March 6

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

March 8, 2016

Business and the Global Poor

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

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Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

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