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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing...
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Deborah A. Farrington
revenues is on its way to nearly $1 billion. The firm has grown from 40 employees to nearly 4000. And Farrington remains the lead director of the firm. Building on her success, Farrington has long been a vocal advocate and supporter of...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost of management and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
find that while a coordination system—the relevant processes, roles and responsibilities, and structure—can be designed to address existing individual and functional biases in the organization; the new View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other states, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
may be the most important environmental objective, and in others it may be reducing the amount of water used. Racial and gender diversity can be a priority, but so too is ensuring some minimal amount of training for all employees every...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to provide the highest value, highest...
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- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
will require leaders who can build and lead what he terms "dual operating systems," staffing innovative networks with volunteers from the existing hierarchy, comprising a "guiding coalition" that can coordinate the...
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by James Heskett
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
7:00 AM meeting for one time zone and then an 8:00 PM meeting for the other side of the world. Trying to do some top-down coordination and rules of engagement to avoid work spilling out everywhere. I think all managers and all View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in family business governance: the top management team, the family employee council, and the board of directors. Purchase this note:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Amy Regan Morehouse on workforce transformation Employers are wrestling with how to provide the resources and foster the motivation workers need for continuous learning in an AI-altered economy. Workers of all stripes are looking to acquire the skills to compete. How...
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- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
safety of the employees who make the goods that the retailer sells? No need to feel awkward if your answer is no. Most people do not think about the harms created by indirect actions, that is, behaviors that hurt others indirectly, such...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make it possible for their View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
immediate loss of income, in exchange for a better situation at some point down the line. What about organizational biases? Since the events of 9/11, it’s been well documented that the CIA and FBI didn’t coordinate their information. Each...
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