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My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational...
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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,...
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Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group...
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Keywords:
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Employees;
Attitudes
Mobasseri, Sanaz, William A. Kahn, and Robin J. Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Academy of Management Review (in press). (Pre-published online January 4, 2024.)
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Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms
By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such "non-market" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. We develop a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns. Agents...
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Akbarpour, Mohammad, Piotr Dworczak, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms." Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming). (Authors' names are in certified random order.)
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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems
By: George Serafeim
Professor Serafeim teaches with Professor Rebecca Henderson the course "Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems" in the second year of the MBA. Cases taught in this course include among others:
Fighting corruption and turning around an organization... View Details
Keywords:
Capitalism;
Corporate Accountability;
Leadership;
Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Inequality;
ESG;
"ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Culture;
Corporate Purpose;
Change;
Performance;
Strategy;
Measurement And Metrics;
Competitive Advantage
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Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure...
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Lane, Jacqueline N., Karim R. Lakhani, and Roberto Fernandez. "Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 31, 2023.)
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Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls
By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which
removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of
racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce
the...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Political Elections;
Voting;
Policy;
Outcome or Result;
Government Legislation
Bernini, Andrea, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, and Cecilia Testa. "Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls." Oxford Review of Economic Policy (forthcoming).
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The Business of Stem Cells
By: Debora L. Spar
In 2004, the topic of stem cell research made both medical and moral headlines. Buoyed by a series of technological breakthroughs, stem cell scientists grew increasingly convinced that they would eventually be able to use embryonic stem cells -- the pluripotent cells...
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The Fragile State of the World: Populism, Unfairness, and the Vulnerabilities of Global Capitalism
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
We are living through the second great era of globalization. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, was destroyed by the geopolitics of a great power transition, armed conflict, and a populist backlash against free trade and multinational business. Today we...
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Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees...
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