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- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put your name to toilets. You're...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
booth is a differentiator—something to keep the slow creep of the chain stores at bay. She also earns money directly from the booth, collecting half of the 30-cent user fee. (The other half goes to Barared.) All told, Reyes says the booth...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA enrollments...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
relationship with France. Yet at the same time, we lack a vision of where to go as a small territory. We have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean, but we miss a collective sense of pride in common achievement. Clearly,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
stores and donation centers. But the 120-year-old nonprofit is among the largest workforce development organizations in the world. The global network is focused on equipping a wide range of individuals with skills to land and keep jobs....
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- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
graduate, our students will be joining organizations with increasingly diverse workforces. Making the most of these differences will be crucial. Inclusion also is key, because diversity is only the first step. Even as we recruit more...
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- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little systematic study. We collect a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
most of strategy’s history, those are precisely the factors that the paradigm hasn’t found a way to work into its calculations. If the discipline is to continue to be of service, it will have to find that way. In seeking models of an View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
wrote a case study on Code.org, which is a nonprofit organization that wants to make sure every student in America’s K–12 system has the opportunity to learn about computer science. There are millions of jobs available that are going...
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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed, and the competitive position that in-house agencies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
absence. She built trust with us early on and we were able to go so much deeper as a result.” Startup Bootcamp Over at Startup Bootcamp, which in 2017 pioneered the concept of short January courses (SIPs), organizers Allison Mnookin,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
retaining our own people and hiring from our competitors.” Well, you could do that, but you can’t collectively do that.Fuller: I’ve certainly heard also many times the inverse, which is I don’t want to spend a lot of money training people...
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- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods had a View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will optimize its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
thousands of women and men MBAs, research by Catalyst finds that women are still placed in less-promising roles and at lower compensation from their first post-MBA job—and those gaps only widen over time. This means that today's MBA women have to start their careers in...
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