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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
bridging. We conclude by highlighting fruitful avenues for cross-disciplinary dialogue in the hope of promoting future research on emerging markets and defining the next frontier of institutional theory in organizational analysis....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
their new industry along with the federal standards and workforce they’ll need. Last fall, she began brainstorming with green entrepreneur Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower, when both attended events promoting the Biden infrastructure bill,...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
not luck. It’s the ability to recognize opportunity. Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ I was ready.” Indeed, he was. Summoning his HBS skills and McKinsey experience, Rogers quickly went about rounding up the $1...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
primary customer? Decided whether shareholders, employees, or customers come first? Narrowed down which performance variables to track? Have you set creative boundaries? Are you generating creative tension? Are you promoting cooperation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring intuitive judgment, but not reflective judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So leaders have to understand how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
views on the ethicality of a favored company, and were less influenced by motivated factors than when under separate evaluations. Book: The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win Authors:Simons, Robert...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
While other companies settled the suits, FindTheBest decided to fight. A judge initially ruled in favor of FindTheBest, awarding the company $300,000 in damages. Lumen appealed, and a three-judge panel reduced the damage award to...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order impact on setting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical behavior. In four studies, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus banks had to find new ways to recapture these now more expensive...
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by Staff
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
seriousness of the allegation, a company should consider the answers to questions like: Did the employee feel threatened or humiliated? Does the behavior interfere with the employee’s ability to do his or her job? Does the employee feel if he or she didn’t provide a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
experience. Deep support enables psychological self-determination. It produces time for life. It facilitates and enhances the experience of being the origin of one's life. It recognizes, responds to, and promotes individuality. It...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
dependencies. Tradition holds that tightly coupled relationships are by nature more efficient; for example, close collaboration between customers and suppliers is usually favored in existing management theories. However, tightly coupled...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien