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- 22 Feb 2011
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Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
In spite of the cultural and social revolution in the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace (and, in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?
The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
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Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
and team creativity, entrepreneurship, organizations, and society. To develop a research agenda that identifies new questions and approaches relevant to both academics and practitioners. The underlying assumption of the colloquia was that...
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
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cut the data differently or want to try to do some longitudinal research, they have much greater ease of extending the research in this area, because it is completely virgin territory, and we think there are a lot View Details
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Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are...
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Governance;
Management Practices and Processes;
Open Source Distribution;
Product Design;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Structure;
Performance;
Problems and Challenges;
Behavior;
Software
MacCormack, Alan, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak. "Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis." Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012): 1309–1324.
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
not be there tomorrow. A good set of principles and values will remain with you for a lifetime." Among the wider societal responsibilities that Chandaria felt was to improve the rules View Details
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you and can encourage you. The other thing we do is, we make very detailed assessments of where a person is, where they want to go, and a realistic understanding of what it View Details
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maternity and adoption, and the debate about things like maternity and paternity leave, obscures the fact that people have a very regular sequence of care events that unfold across their whole lives. So you have that child, a significant...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions
By: Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman and Francesca Gino
Consumers are often faced with the opportunity to purchase a new, enhanced product (e.g., a new phone), even though the device they currently own is still fully functional. We propose that consumers act more recklessly with their current products and are less concerned...
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Carelessness;
Product Upgrade;
Justification;
Loss;
Consumer Behavior;
Attitudes;
Product;
Ownership
Bellezza, Silvia, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Francesca Gino. "'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-077, April 2015.
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
its customers well, their assets will grow to the point that they'll need more sophisticated services and advice. To control midfield, companies like Charles Schwab must stay consistent in their positioning but also respond to the...
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percent of our people will be office based. A big chunk in the middle might be near some of our local office hubs and campuses. But anyone, anywhere, can decide to work...
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women. So when you kind of look at any organization as if it’s a triangle, the bottom of the triangle, there’s equality there. But then we start losing and losing and losing women as we move to the top. We...
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difficult and slow. But with the advent of new technological solutions, all of these processes will be transformed,” explains Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard... 08 Mar...
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likely to generate new uses, new markets, and most importantly, new jobs. Many observers anticipate sweeping changes to health care, education, manufacturing, and other sectors. Low-latency, reliable local links will bolster the emergence...
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customers.Kerr: Did your research ever ask questions along the lines of, would you be willing to give up 10 percent of your pay in order to have the remote flexibility, versus being in person? So some way...
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at that. In the future, there’ll do even more things. So summarize this document for me, or give me all the things related to this. I think AI will help us create better filters for our attention to sift through all View Details
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will give you a flavor of it. Last week we published—in cooperation with the Burning Glass Institute through the philanthropy of the Schultz Family Foundation—we published the...
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- 13 Feb 2020
Information Session at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Join us to learn more about our college programs including 2+2, Peek Weekend, and SVMP. You will have the opportunity to ask questions with a member of the MBA Admissions team.
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- 10 Apr 2013
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Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
radiologist having experience with that customer. If you're an outsourcing firm, that has implications for how you think about staffing a new client versus one with whom the firm has a longer history." Huckman's future research will look...
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- 21 Aug 2006
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How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
helping to finance that deficit. If those global imbalances are unraveled chaotically, the stirrings of a crisis of legitimacy for the free movement of capital would be...
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by Ann Cullen