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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Through Social Media: Passable Trust and the Paradox of Non-work Interactions By: Neeley, Tsedal, and Paul Leonardi Abstract—Despite the recognition that knowledge sharing among employees is necessary to enact knowledge strategy, little...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
business out of it. It is fair to say that without Li & Fung, the sourcing function for most major retailers in the U.S. would come to a grinding halt. Our framework for institutional voids captures what is common to all emerging...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
respect to fair trade policy. The issue revolves around what actions the various private and public decision makers will now take to make this ruling work while not placing too big a burden on any one segment of the economy. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
potential employees and their investors, we think is going to be very important. So as we look to the months ahead, one of the things that we’re doing is, in fact, building a set of tools for workers. And so I’d like to think about this...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what...
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by George C. Lodge
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance measures of service quality and...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest employee turnover rate among all of the departments at EMU. Furthermore, her new unit was infamous for its culture of confrontation, blaming, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
so difficult that they often failed to perform them effectively. When we turned to the academic research, we found a fair amount of research on what victims need when they're on the receiving end. But little attention had been devoted to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the interest of business in my mind. There is also a real role for businesses to play in strengthening democracy by helping reach people at scale by giving employees time off for voting, for example, and making sure they have information...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
toward self-discovery. Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair By Kim Malone Scott (MBA 1996) St. Martin’s Press From Kim Scott, author of the revolutionary New York Times–bestseller Radical Candor, comes Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast &...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
strategic consultant. HR as the adviser. HR as the designer of employee experience. HR as the owner of the culture. It’s been escalating year after year after year. And I think the reason it has escalated and has become such a critical...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to internal employee use cases as well. Kerr: Tell us about how you are—at Morningstar, just in general—building your AI strategy. Is it something that’s very centralized? With 10,000 colleagues around the world, is it decentralized to...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing efforts and millions of dollars in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
enjoy the discussion.Joe Fuller: “Companies that can excel at doing those things are going to keep and retain more than their fair share of the good talent. And that’s a winning proposition in a knowledge economy.” Jocelyn Hittle: Welcome...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
highlights how the US can work to make the most out of that gift. Bill, congratulations on the book. Welcome. Bill Kerr: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here. It’s also a little different to be on this side of the table. Fuller: On that side of the mic. Well,...
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