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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
strategy, and develop a hobby—all to face weeks on the road interviewing at far-flung institutions. Rouen teaches in the Accounting and Management Unit, having recently...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
There are many, but here are examples of each. Settings: Air flow and other engineering steps. Before you think of moving back into your office building or shop, you should check on basic metrics that any building View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
focusing on thinking about what one has been doing. Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors Conventional explanations for General Motors'...
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- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater...
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Business Organization;
Business And Community;
Well-being;
Wealth and Poverty;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Organizational Culture;
Technology Adoption;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Change Management;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
Partners and Partnerships;
Restructuring;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Business and Community Relations;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Banking Industry;
Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
and leading others. This is a fundamental concept discussed in Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO), one of the MBA Program's most popular...
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Susan Young
- 24 Nov 2020
- News
Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
technology, at Eventide Asset Management in Boston. I'm always looking for companies developing new energy technologies and industries across America, including in West Virginia." Christine: "I was a 2020-21...
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- December 1985 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Scovill, Inc.: NuTone Housing Group
Describes a conflict between the corporate controller and a division president about labor standards, which the division purposefully overstates to protect its margins. Illustrates the multiple roles of standards, and the roles of controllers and line management in...
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Merchant, Kenneth A. "Scovill, Inc.: NuTone Housing Group." Harvard Business School Case 186-136, December 1985. (Revised July 1993.)
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
management. It brings these themes together in case discussions and exercises that focus on the personal decisions managers face in high-performance, high-stakes, and...
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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14302 The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the costs of increasing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also...
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by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way." Heartlight was followed by the equally acclaimed The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect, contemporary mythic tales...
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Thomas Frick
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy
By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper studies the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese immigration to the United States after 1882, across U.S. counties between 1870 and 1940. We find that the Act reduced labor supply for both the Chinese and other groups (i.e., white and...
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Immigration;
Growth;
Productivity;
Business History;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Business and Government Relations;
Prejudice and Bias;
Government Legislation;
United States
Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, March 2022.
- 1997
- Book
Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices
By: Leslie Perlow
Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended...
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Perlow, Leslie. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
and I worked on an independent project on Cryptography and Ethereum sponsored by Marco Iansiti, who heads the Technology and Operations View Details
Rakesh Khurana
Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College.
Professor... View Details
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executive search