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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Management; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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Regulatory Change/Business-Government Relations

“Sources of Learning Heterogeneity: Discontinuous Regulatory Shock and its Impact on Organizational Search Behaviors”

Co-authoring with Jerry Kim, in this study I look at how discontinuous regulatory shock shapes organizational... View Details

Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Regulations; Regulatory Capture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
  • August 28, 2018
  • Article

How Intermittent Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence

By: Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher average solution quality due to exploitation of existing answers through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Social Influence; Collective Intelligence; Interaction; Problem Solving; Collaboration; Intermittant; Breaks; Always On; Communication Technologies; Communication; Design; Information; Management; Leadership; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology
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    Michael L. Tushman

    Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

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    Timing is Everything: The Importance of Finding the Right Moment in Leading Teams

    Great team leaders have superb timing. We explore in this article two different types of timing that leaders need to help their teams. First, they understand when teams are naturally open to help, and what kinds of help to give teams at predictable times in... View Details

    Keywords: Strategy; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style
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    • 18 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

    Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Motion Pictures & Video
    • 30 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 30, 2016

    exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 15 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way

    Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Michael I. Norton
    • 01 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 1

    Publications Behaviorial Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty Authors: Max Bazerman and Francesca Gino Publication: Annual Review of Law and Social Science (forthcoming) Abstract Early research and teaching on ethics focused on either... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Generative AI and the Nature of Work

    By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu
    Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details
    Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor
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    • 17 May 2016
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    May 17, 2016

    of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18, 2009

    relationships and if these three individuals can be successful partners. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809098   PublicationsContent vs. Advertising: The Impact of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct

    By: F. Christopher Eaglin
    Under what conditions do firms engage in strategic misconduct? Why do they undertake actions that increase profitability yet break laws or violate strong norms often with costly consequences for public welfare? The strategic management literature offers two external... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Capital Constraints; Organizations; Crime and Corruption; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Capital
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
    A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
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    • 11 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

    native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable men." We also explore... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    that become the basis for debate and learning. The goal in this session will be to provide frameworks for critical thinking, with an emphasis on assessing current media articles on complex topics like healthcare, climate change, and education. Participants will View Details
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    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    of the Democratic Party; political career of Martin Van Buren; bank chartering system; Panic of 1837; Democrats vs. Whigs; free banking Property, Suffrage, and the "Right of Revolution" in Rhode Island, 1842 This case View Details
    • 03 Apr 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions

    Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan