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- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social distinctiveness" view of sexual... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing, R&D) behave differently from functions further from the product ("administrative" functions, e.g., finance, law, HR). We... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
with—and may displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
MBA students, 87 percent opposed the change, 6 percent favored it, and 7 percent were indifferent. A letter to the administration signed by nineteen of twenty Student Association representatives argued that grade disclosure “would have a... View Details
- 14 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale
America which seeks to holistically redefine business success by certifying “B Corporations” that commit to meaningfully incorporating social and environmental concerns to their bottom lines. Correa delineates ways to reduce plastic usage in industry from the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
that Wikipedia uses. "So you've got a very clear set of criteria for telling your fellow Wikipedians, 'Here's my contribution, here's why it's valid and needs to be included,' " McAfee continues. "Now, you can argue about the wordsmithing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
associate professor Yasheng Huang asserts that it is not strengths but weaknesses in the Chinese economy that are responsible for some of the country’s impressive FDI figures. Huang argues that foreign direct investment in China surged... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
projected words from stories and poems, and peek into the nooks and crannies of a “surprise bookshelf” to learn about an author or a literary work. “This seems to be a particularly good time to remember that the United States was established as an idea, one that was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
“manufacturing industries” over service industries. Notes Pisano, “For many years, people like Bob Hayes, Kim Clark, and Steve Wheelwright were arguing that manufacturing mattered to competitiveness. So what Willy and I are saying today... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
Debt, Norton and his fellow researchers argue that separating the purchase from the actual payment demotivates consumers from paying more than the minimum. In contrast, repayment-by-purchase “recouples” the elements of the transaction and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
As he says, "Linking management fees/rewards to fund performance would be very attractive to investors: Who can argue with shared ambition?" The importance of these questions lies in the heavy reliance that so many people deep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
product. In four-drive terms, we would argue that brands would be stronger to the extent they come to represent an implicit promise to the customer that can be trusted, a promise that to some extent addresses all four primary drives. Take... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Informing Dissent By: Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao Abstract—The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention should focus on government... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
$8 billion. Proponents of the proposed rule argue that it would prevent companies from having to consider frivolous proposals from small investors who don’t have much stake in a company’s success. After all, it takes a lot of time and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Role of Business. "Our book argues that if we don't begin to address, in a systemic way, the issues and problems and the negative outcomes and challenges [of market capitalism], then we are likely to see a lot more movements like Occupy... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
lives of their employees, customers, and communities. Leaders who want to actualize purpose within their organizations, he says, should be ready to take a big leap. In the following excerpt, Gulati argues that a deep-purpose leader has to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It by Josh Lerner (Princeton University Press) As governments worldwide seek to spur economic growth in ever more aggressive ways, Professor Lerner offers an important caution, View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism of the humanities will help us restore humanity to finance,”... View Details