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  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

  Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

going to have the power and the passion to fundamentally change it. For example, almost half of Sony's profits now come from a guy who six or seven years ago was a lowly engineer in corporate R&D. He had to fight his way up the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

that humor plays a fundamental role in shaping interpersonal perceptions and hierarchies within groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51589 September 2016 Harvard Business Review Know Your Customers'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

  Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

changing social hierarchy and Wedgwood's bringing what had been the trappings of a small minority, the aristocracy, to the growing middling classes at a moment when Britain was industrializing. From a branding standpoint, it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

categorical hierarchies and in the ability to reconcile incompatible organizational capabilities. Second, we theorize and attend to the role of emotional frames in innovation adoption. Thus, we advance a model that articulates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously creates a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

self-downloads on SSRN, the leading working paper repository in the social sciences, to show that employees higher in a hierarchy are more likely to engage in deception, particularly when the employee has enjoyed a high level of past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

hierarchy did form (Thyssen hardly ran some sort of democracy), but one that accorded a space of responsibility and decision-making flexibility to subordinate managers. In spite of the fact that he was personally very authoritarian and it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-088 John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World By the late nineteenth century, scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities, and its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational hierarchy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

revenue streams, he wondered how to maintain their entrepreneurial culture that he saw as a prerequisite for this—particularly their lean hierarchy and researchers' freedom to follow innovation where it led them—in a company of more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

measures via deception. In a first study, we use deceptive self-downloads on SSRN, the leading working paper repository in the social sciences, to show that employees higher in a hierarchy are more likely to engage in deception,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

collective, the nature and importance of relationships, how personal space and the role of time are viewed, the extent to which authority and hierarchy are accepted, how ambiguity and risk are regarded, and so on. Extending this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

is it China, a place into which more resources are going than any other place in the world, and a place with more extraordinary human capital than any other place in the world, and a place (maybe because it's a communist country) that is more obsessed with View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

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