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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal. The War on Error: A Hospital Field Manual by W.T. Subalusky (AMP...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
description in which the company, organization, or enterprise runs as a kind of military operation in which everyone lines up and falls in line. Although in the early 20th century many businesses were structured along such lines, “command and control” organizations...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which passed overwhelmingly despite the absence of any economically powerful interest group behind it; and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), which became View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
to government to private equity, but each has one thing in common – a passion for social impact. The Social Enterprise Initiative Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, spent his summer internship while...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the...
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Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Common mistakes, the authors say, include failing to view disruption as a gradual process (which may lead incumbents to ignore significant threats) and blindly accepting the “Disrupt or be disrupted” mantra (which may lead incumbents to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for View Details
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Anna Secino
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to break down silos and provide a unified body of knowledge to inform public policy. Two proposed legislative agenda items from an earlier version of the group’s white paper were voted into state law last year: making the...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
managerial decision making. Six facets of institutional logic-a common purpose, a long-term focus, emotional engagement, partnering with the public, innovation, and self-organization-radically alter leadership and corporate behavior and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of “Sagwa” on display. These marketing strategies...
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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in 2008, however, the couple began to look for a place to live together and raise a family. At McKinsey, Moore was working on a project for Union Pacific (UP), headquartered in Omaha, a company of more than 46,000 employees signed into View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Moving on to the specific drivers at play in our sample cases, we identified two powerful utilitarian motivations: risk-management and competitive advantage creation. Risk Management A common reason for engaging in cross-sector...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
take stock of some crucial public policy issues. Ryan, welcome to the podcast. Ryan Craig: Great to be here, Bill.Kerr: Ryan, why don’t we start with a little bit of your background and how you came to focus on workforce development.Craig: So out of View Details