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- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business...
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by Roberta Holland
- 13 Sep 2013
- HBS Seminar
Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service
- 13 Sep 2013
- HBS Seminar
Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service
- 09 Sep 2020
- News
Hot new job title in a pandemic: ‘Head of remote work’
- 2022
- Article
Pills in a World of Activism and ESG
By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
Easterbrook and Fischel’s The Economic Structure of Corporate Law advances their now famous passivity thesis, which posits that managers should remain passive in the face of an unsolicited tender offer for the company’s shares. Consistent with the broader...
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Subramanian, Guhan, and Caley Petrucci. "Pills in a World of Activism and ESG." University of Chicago Business Law Review 1 (2022): 417–439.
- January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com
By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
After graduating from Harvard Business School in June 2006, Ken Pao and Bill Li were ready to fully commit to the Internet start-up they had been working on since they first stepped foot on the business school campus. They moved to Beijing, rounded out their management...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Joint Ventures;
Entrepreneurship;
Product Launch;
Business and Government Relations;
Internet;
China
Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com." Harvard Business School Case 307-075, January 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
- 2013
- Book
The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World
By: Michael Wheeler
A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger...
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Negotiation
Wheeler, Michael. The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other business leaders discussed the responsibilities of...
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Keywords:
Rachel Carson;
Sustainability;
Local Food;
Operations Management;
Supply Chain;
Business And Society;
Business Ethics;
Business History;
Corporate Philanthropy;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Environmentalism;
Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Ethics;
Globalization;
History;
Religion;
Consumer Products Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Energy Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Forest Products Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
North and Central America;
Africa
Jones, Geoffrey. "Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-004, July 2013.
- 09 Mar 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement
- 27 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
- April 2012
- Article
The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research
By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen
The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards...
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Keywords:
Groups and Teams;
Research;
Change Management;
Leadership;
Standards;
Performance Effectiveness;
Theory;
Civil Society or Community
Wageman, Ruth, Heidi K. Gardner, and Mark Mortensen. "The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research." Journal of Organizational Behavior 33, no. 3 (April 2012): 301–315.
- May 2018
- Article
Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance
By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to test whether an...
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Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino. "Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance." Journal of Accounting Research 56, no. 2 (May 2018): 713–747.
- 19 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Zeynep Ton, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 10 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of...
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Jennifer Myers
- July–September 2020
- Article
Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the...
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Keywords:
Contest;
Innovation;
Employee Engagement;
Organizational Learning;
Health Care;
Health Care Delivery;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Learning;
Employees;
Perception;
Health Care and Treatment
Jung, Olivia, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation." Health Care Management Review 45, no. 3 (July–September 2020): 255–266.
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual...
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- 2011
- Book
Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez-faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context...
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Reinert, Sophus A. Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. (Received the 2012 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book in the history of economics.)
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
distribution channel. Fluctuating demand at the retail level would generate exaggerated fluctuations—a “whipsaw” effect—in expected demand and inventory planning at the back end, or manufacturing level, in an effort to meet possible View Details