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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
forces, he says. “The government feels like a well-run organization, and that’s new for this country.” Changing the private sector will take longer. A whole host of structural impediments predated the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
to which the trend is a product of nature (declining employee motivation, changing aspirations, shorter-term planning, etc.) or nurture (such things as leadership, hiring policies, organization, incentives, and the job environment they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization. Organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
coworkers by default. I would like to be one of many to tell you that Black people are not responsible for your education on individual, institutional, or structural racism. Furthermore, the time to be a silent and passive ally is over.... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
other factor for the great influence it has enjoyed in American society—have changed significantly from the era when the earliest schools were founded up until the present day. Thus the institution that came to be the major influence on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
voting. Plan-making prompts are simple, inexpensive, and powerful tools for changing behavior, which preserve the autonomy of decision makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50157 November 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
innovation, design, openness to trade, quality, as well as internationalization, and strategic flexibility. Italy’s family capitalism has shown it can evolve and adjust to a changing world. Students will analyze how it has done so even... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
companies creating sabbatical policies: Marty would make a few crucial changes if redesigning the program from scratch. First, he believes that three months isn’t enough. According to Marty, “it takes three months just to recharge; only... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
track how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off welfare and start earning wages and paying taxes, there's an inverse relationship. They end up... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
forthcoming Handbook of Structural Transformation Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to founders and works to change elements of the venture capital View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons