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  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

accurately, your hologram or avatar) can, among other things, go to school, go to work, play games, watch concerts, and browse stores. For Facebook, or now Meta, its dominance in social networking combined with a Meta-based strategy is an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

A Call to Innovation

decline: an eroding educational system relative to other top nations, a talent drain, the drop-off of spending for basic R&D, and a lackluster telecommunications infrastructure. Meanwhile, Finland — with the same population as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information; Management
  • Web

Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

opportunities. Kyriarchy A complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression. // coined by theologian Elisabeth... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

frustrated by the "explanations" offered for the country's economic and social problems. One of the more standard arguments was that corruption was the cause of all our problems. It seemed that we could become rich by becoming... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

lens to integrate the psychology literature on habitual choice, System I and II decision-making, and a recent stream of empirical work that involves social and situational effects into the scope of context... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

with each other. Azrah interacts more frequently with my sectionmates than I do. In fact, my sectionmates now reach out straight to Azrah whenever they want to make plans with us.” Rishon Benjamin (MBA ’22, Section E) remarked that his wife Ina brings another dimension... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

was obligatory that everyone agree before a decision was taken, not just have their point of view heard. As a consequence, decisions were not taken in a timely manner, and conflicts were dealt with indirectly. To address these issues, we installed a View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Article

Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We show that capitalism is far from common around the world. Outside a small group of rich countries, heavy regulation of business, leftist rhetoric, and interventionist beliefs flourish. We relate these phenomena to the presence of corruption, with causality running... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Voting; Economic Systems; Fairness; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Emotions
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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the time. Matching demand closer to supply, rather than the other way... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and View Details
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

that follows an inverted U-shaped evolutionary pattern, wherein an increase in the small-worldliness of the system is followed by its later decline as a result of three factors: (1) the recursive relationship between the evolving View Details
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

already-stressful situation—not only for factories, but for corporate offices, schools, and other organizations, Toffel says. “Why is it that every school system has had to develop their own standards and policies for masks, for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and comprehensive patient... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer