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related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that...
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- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
and delivery only and the prospects for returning to full employment by June 30 were dim given the constraints imposed by capacity caps. "I have no idea what to do with the PPP loan that I’ve been...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound governance systems, or are hindered...
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Garry Emmons
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
identity and reputation from unjust attacks. And the firm as a whole needs a similar defensive capacity for its dealings with hostile competitive firms, community groups, or governmental agencies. The defending and learning drives can...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership is actually given fairly short shrift. The gap—between...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints...
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
hiring scholars who study race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality—by assuring each unit that it can hire such individuals without diminishing its capacity to hire other candidates. The encouragement applies to candidates at the senior...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
try to understand it. When you thoroughly examine the assumptions behind their current use, you will likely make surprising discoveries with a capacity for large changes. When you get to the root cause, you are not only solving this...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The externalities of business-as-usual are a View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity Authors:Daniel Snow Abstract In this paper, I propose and examine a specific means by which firms' R&D experience may be helping firms to improve their current-technology products: Firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
court press,” “Slam dunk,” “Going for the gold, “Hit a home run” your favorite here). It’s a cooptation with a curious side. To me, music and sports convey transcendence: the mind and body at play, freed from the constraints and demands...
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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
before key decisions are made; The capacity constraints of citizens and CSOs should be identified, so that efforts can be made to improve capacities and accessibility at all...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
adequately support many online publishing businesses, and riddled with complex relationships that hinder accountability. Download the paper: http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_9/1/EDELMAN.pdf Constraints and Entrepreneurship...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
non-western participants are committing significant resources to winning in those markets. The gulf between sophisticated African consumer preferences for products and services and resource and capacity View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
(Study 2). Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49533 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints? By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, and Alexander Ljungqvist...
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Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
contribution was higher than initially planned. Executive Education faced residence and dining capacity constraints in fiscal 2015. The group successfully managed these challenges and delivered...
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- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
comprehend what they may mean. But other times I know I need help. This is one of those times. Just two decades ago, we didn't have Google and other information sources; storage constraints would not have permitted Google to provide...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
the United States in 1999 versus $7 billion in 1997, according to the National Venture Capital Association—has attracted thousands of business plans. This sheer volume of funds to be invested and plans to be evaluated has strained the View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness...
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Sean Silverthorne