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- 2009
- Working Paper
Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?
By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Saving;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Emerging Markets;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry;
India;
Indonesia
Cole, Shawn A., Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia. "Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-117, April 2009. (Revised October 2009, September 2010, October 2010.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups
By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We...
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Keywords:
Fluid Personnel;
Team Scaffolds;
Team Effectiveness;
Role-based Coordination;
Multi-method;
Health Care and Treatment;
Analytics and Data Science;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Organizational Structure;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Effectiveness;
Groups and Teams;
Networks;
Behavior;
Balance and Stability;
Health Industry
Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-062, January 2012. (Revised June 2014.)
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
who handle their clients’ anxieties with more skill and confidence do tend to set more reasonable expectations for their teams. They know how to narrow the scope of a project to exactly what’s needed and avoid unnecessary effort, she...
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- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s book sets out to help these job seekers—a group that’s...
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- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil (A)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Urban Scope;
Social Issues;
Education;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Learning;
Leading Change;
Brazil
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Daniella Suarez. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil (A)." Harvard Business Publishing Case 313-116, 2013. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- Research Summary
Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks
Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power. This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use...
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- 17 Jul 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market
- June 2015
- Article
Looking Beyond Mau Mau: Archiving Violence in the Era of Decolonization
Elkins, Caroline M. "Looking Beyond Mau Mau: Archiving Violence in the Era of Decolonization." American Historical Review 120, no. 3 (June 2015): 852–868.
- 08 May 2022
- Blog Post
The Territory of Motherhood: A Reflection in Honor of Mother’s Day
have spent twenty days in the NICU watching our babies become strong enough to come home. All of our first interactions have been tangled with cords and closely watched by wonderful nurses as we grew the View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s book sets out to help these job seekers—a group that’s...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
from buying stocks, he notes. Minimum prices for shares, for example, put equities out of the reach of many. But by convincing the government to liberalize regulations, Saeki hopes to win public confidence and pull View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
knowing which type of approach they default to can help them be more deliberate about how they make decisions, giving them confidence that there is in fact a method behind their investment choices. For...
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- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
mention the executives in my class. "Here’s some good news: We can engage with that anxiety productively." Many of us are familiar with this kind of anxiety. I’ve interviewed and studied many leaders whose View Details
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by Francesca Gino
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
huge loss of capital. And, in fact, a lot of knowledge was lost in that transition. Many people had to figure out new things, had to learn how to operate under difficult...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
meet great people, and practically apply the knowledge I’d gained in the HBS classroom. Making an Industry Pivot Post-Internship The startup experience put me at a career crossroads by August 2021. Going in,...
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Energy / Cleantech
- Web
The Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
occupy policymaking positions at some point in their careers. The skills and knowledge it develops, however, are increasingly valuable to the broad range of businesses, non-profit organizations, and civil...
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- 2012
- Chapter
Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms
By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration
By: Carolyn Fu
Organizations are often advised to engage heavily in exploration in order to succeed – to cast a wide net for diverse solutions that are superior to what they currently exploit. However, what is the organization to do when the fruits of its exploration are inconsistent...
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Fu, Carolyn. "Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration." Working Paper, April 2020.
- November 2019
- Article
The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market
By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani and Carlo Sommavilla
This paper shows that the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then...
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Keywords:
Broker Networks;
Institutional Investors;
Asset Prices;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Institutional Investing;
Information;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Financial Markets;
Asset Pricing
Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla. "The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market." Journal of Financial Economics 134, no. 2 (November 2019): 419–446.
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
Q&A, Edmondson explains why a psychologically safe environment is more important than ever. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? People who feel psychologically safe are confident that candor and vulnerability are welcome View Details