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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

tax avoidance activity. These "book-tax" gaps are shown to be larger when firms are alleged to be involved in tax shelters. OLS estimates indicate that the average effect of tax avoidance on firm value is not significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses have been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

about the world of noncompetes before you embarked on this study. How did you get interested in studying them vis-à-vis inventor mobility? What gap in the research did you want to investigate? Matt Marx: You're right; this topic drew... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55541 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions, such as taxes that involve personal characteristics, asset-testing, and history-dependence, remain rare in practice. Where large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us-and ultimately, are left feeling dissatisfied. Each of us is unique and brings distinctive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

Marquis, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is generated. I attempt to address... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

can learn the truth about gaps between vision and reality. Without a commitment to a vision and an institutionalized learning and governance system, well intentioned boards will continue to be surprised ethical, human, and performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

resources, but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

manufacturing components and processes change, and IT security becomes the job of every function. Companies need different skills and expertise, which creates new imperatives for HR. In the marketing function, the ability to track a... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

and their impact on organizational climate, which predicts successful outcomes. We addressed this gap with a field experiment suggested by Toyota's problem-solving process. We tested three related process improvement activities: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions. 3) Clout: redistribute power to "bridge builders" and customer champions. 4) Capability: develop employees' skills at tackling changing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

understanding of the expertise and content of what these people were trying to transmit, and how they did it. And, to the extent that we now have data on the companies, how well the companies did. There is obviously a big gap between what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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