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  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

forget that," says Hall, now the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration. "That had such a huge influence on me." It's an example of what Hall calls "value-creating" behavior—doing a favor for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others; 2) Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based contracts, we document that,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Sep 2007 - 2007
  • Conference Presentation

Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

research on the ways in which work and workplace quality influence people’s well-being around the world. It also highlights a number of best practices that may inspire policy-makers and business leaders in putting well-being at the heart... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • January 2025
  • Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Perspective Taking; Liabilities; Family Business; Family Ownership; Business Growth and Maturation; Alignment; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict Management; Conflict of Interests; Power and Influence; Perception; Trust; Perspective; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Identity; Goals and Objectives; Legal Liability; Contracts; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Family and Family Relationships; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

Motivation Authors:F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her idea, order the necessary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more global in its outlook will have a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • January 2006 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Capitalism and Democracy in a New World

By: Bruce R. Scott, Sarah Potvin and Alison Adams
Focuses on the formulation of the Northwestern Ordinance as the core of a development strategy for capitalism and democracy in the United States. A precursor to the Constitution, the Northwestern Ordinance was based on the New England Model to achieve a broad and... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Economic Systems; Income; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Power and Influence; United States
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  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

decisions are endogenous, and 3) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing) once they have decided to affiliate. We show that search diversion remains a necessary strategic instrument for the intermediary even when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

destruction" research. As Devdip Ganguli put it: "The sphere of influence of companies goes beyond themselves and their investors: their decisions encompass social and environmental consequences... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

repertoire of personal qualities, including qualities that run counter to conventionally masculine scripts. Our findings point to the mutability of masculine identity as a social status achievement and to how organizations can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Quarterly 52, no. 3 (September 2007) Abstract Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

Ane Damgaard Jensen. The case, "Rovná daň: The Flat Tax in Slovakia," describes how the flat tax was introduced there in 2004 as well as the surprising influence of Slovakia ever since. But the concept of a flat tax is not new:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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