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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
because of a workplace accident, illness, unemployment, or old age. Government policymakers responded to this rapidly expanding problem of worker insecurity by constructing an elaborate social insurance system covering many of the most...
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by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the introduction and impact of lean management techniques in a nontraditional setting we are able to move beyond the artifacts and gain insight...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
platforms, crowdsourcing, and the gig economy. Building upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, we argue that these increasingly common governance models offer a wealth of opportunities but require organizations to adopt a translucent institutional logic that is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
system in Germany is more cumbersome than the U.S. system. Germans are more formal in their interpersonal behavior inside corporations than Americans, which often leads to an appearance of stuffiness or stiffness. The use of titles or...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
President of Product Development and cofounder, closed on a $41 million investment round. Their firm was one of the hottest companies in the health information technology field. They provided core data warehouse technology to enable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
environment conditions. Both are most strongly associated with stronger economic outcomes, with lower impact on other dimensions of the New Growth Path. The third section creates a new dataset of cluster initiative intensity at the regional and cluster category level....
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Anna Secino
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
the worst of the crisis was over. With the global financial system no longer spiraling into an abyss, government officials, business leaders, and American taxpayers could now take stock of where they had been and where they should be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
use of knowledge previously codified and stored in the organization affects team performance. We draw upon the team effectiveness, knowledge management, and information systems literatures to develop five hypotheses on the effects of team...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, argues that the sudden availability of niche offerings more closely tailored to their tastes will lure consumers away from...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
great deal of pleasure out of that. It really wasn't, I don't believe, until he finally got to the University of Budapest, which was shortly before he escaped, that he began to make gentile friends, close gentile friends. But no, it was...
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