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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
number of small manufacturers that sell directly to homeowners and to contractors. To gain a competitive advantage, Union visited potential customers and interviewed them about their preferences for a par-ticular kind of corrugated panel used for animal enclosures. She...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
image of masculinity with an unconventional one and then set out to prove the new image—revealing mistakes strategically, for example, or competing in displays of sensitivity. Instead, the goal of proving one's masculine credentials, conventional or otherwise, appeared...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
performance. Importantly, because these dynamics rely on the acquiescence of other team members to the leader's dominant behavior, the effects only emerge when the leader holds a formal leadership position. Three studies find consistent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
where morality and leadership intersect: "What is the nature of a moral challenge?" "How do people 'reason morally'?" "How is moral leadership different from leadership of any other kind?" Q: The course has a unique View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
leadership and discover the leader hidden in you. Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back By Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)and Heather Cabot Penguin It’s never been easier to start a business—and it’s...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
rising stock market. Another was the use of stock options—because options are so complex, they can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team...
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All Industries
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
improvement, and holding people accountable for results. The authors propose a holistic framework that district leaders can use to develop an improvement strategy and build coherent organizations to implement it. The framework is based on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
embassies around the world. Even after agreeing to attempt a compromise, the talks would often stall; sometimes they threatened to cease. By 2002, the original process was in disarray, and a whole new structure with new negotiators was...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
sorts of things. JH: Estes agreed to move across the street to a parcel of land the county acquired, where the county would build a new structure the same size as their former building. In exchange, the county received the former Estes...
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informal structures of power; technology; infrastructure; and staffing, personnel and management. We will of course also be examining the impact that COVID has had on Africa, the leadership challenges that it has thrown up and examining...
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- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
in a two-sided market. We compile a unique and comprehensive dataset using sales data from the U.S. daily deal market and specify a structural model based on Nash bargaining solutions. We find that Groupon, the larger deal platform, has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
nonprofit network of public charter schools in New York City, recently shared his thoughts on the importance of ensuring Black kids develop a sense of agency by focusing on Black excellence and succeeding despite structural barriers. “The...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
across industries. Forces for change are not matched by the urgency of action. With perhaps a quarter of all bridges in America deemed structurally deficient, the Highway Trust Fund about to run out of money, commuter rail accidents...
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