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- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
is a noun. A team is an established, fixed group of people cooperating in pursuit of a common goal. But what if a team disbands almost as quickly as it was assembled? For example, what if you work in an emergency services facility where...
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Re: Amy C. Edmondson
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
the "Wheel of Change," and why businesses must act to solve large global issues, such as climate change and income inequality. Highlights Prisoner's Dilemma Cooperating with External Stakeholders KAF Continued: The Business Model What...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Periscope. He is also cofounder and a board member of Prefer. He serves on the advisory board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is president of the board of trustees for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Belsky...
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- July/September 2005
- Article
Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale
By: Rawi Abdelal
This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union...
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Abdelal, Rawi. "Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale." Critique internationale, no. 28 (July/September 2005): 87–115.
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The Role of Institutions in Overcoming Imperfect Monitoring in Relational Contracting (with Carmit Segal)
In a world in which firms can be hit by transitory adverse shocks it may be too costly for any single worker to verify the true state of the world. In this case, it may not be possible for firms to lower wages in response to adverse shocks and still have the workers...
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The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions
Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
individual and community perspectives as they relate to knowledge creation, reuse, and recombination for innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-065.pdf Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive...
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Martha Lagace
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Third-party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Trustworthiness
By: Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom and David G. Rand
Third-party punishment (TPP), in which unaffected observers punish selfishness, promotes cooperation by deterring defection. But why should individuals choose to bear the costs of punishing? We present a game theoretic model of TPP as a costly signal of...
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Jordan, Jillian J., Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom, and David G. Rand. "Third-party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Trustworthiness." Nature 530, no. 7591 (2016): 473–476.
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
an image of the giant enterprise as a “soulless” corporation. For example, United States Steel, a corporate history written by Cotter in cooperation with Gary and U.S. Steel, leveraged text and photographs illustrating the process of...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using...
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Management;
Relationships;
Gender;
Labor and Management Relations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Employees;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Colombia
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-032, November 2023.
- 2016
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Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data...
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Competition;
Fairness;
Supply and Industry;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25." Chap. 1 in Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, 25–42. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix
By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between...
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-004, July 2015. (Revised July 2016.)
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
competitive and cooperative logics (see Cennamo, 2021; Cozzolino et al., 2021) that have characterized the (traditional) economy so far, to represent a paradigm shift. Thus, it requires formulating the new (departing) assumptions, logics,...
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- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
not only on employee development but also on cross-boundary cooperation and organizational learning and innovation. The culture associated with track B fosters a high level of trust; therefore, it functions well with a heavy reliance on...
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by Avery Forman
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
metaverse believe in and fight for the notion of interoperability.” Wu emphasizes that the true potential of the metaverse won’t be achieved if companies don’t cooperate and agree on basic technological standards and protocols that would...
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- January 1987
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Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian...
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem." Econometrica 55, no. 1 (January 1987): 69–94.
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
any other country in Europe. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says the country is now home to 1.3 million foreign-born residents, 14 percent of the country’s total. Sweden has also opened its doors to more than...
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by Lane Lambert
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details
- 06 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals
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