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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for communities of color to thrive in a global market. So before you question the legitimacy of a protest that involves the destruction of property (ignoring the fact that much of ‘vandalism’ being done is by white supremacist saboteurs),...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who shield agencies from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
intrigue audiences and lend legitimacy to the dubious product. Here, the dance is presented to potential consumers as the “Ghost Dance” and associated, given the branding, only with Kickapoo, lacking specificity, accuracy, and a key...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
full, clear, and succinct narrative for hiring managers. 2. “Borrow” reputation and legitimacy from others in your network, establishing innocence by association. Executive search firms can also act as references and sponsors. 3. Take a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
other words, how can Montague balance the need to look like a regular bicycle in order to achieve legitimacy with the need to signal value by looking different? What market segment should Montague be targeting-customers looking...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
status—on new venture growth. I propose that new firms can acquire legitimacy by mimicking the structures and ceremonial activities of established firms in their industry and status by affiliating with high-status entities. Using a unique...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
holistic perspective. Shareholders cannot just focus on short-term profits; they need to understand that a company's ability to earn profits over the long term will require investments that come at a short-term cost, or even value transfers that preserve its View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
fundamental redirections in strategy. Since ventures attain legitimacy and resources based on original aims that constituencies find compelling, entrepreneurs’ initial claims are likely to complicate subsequent course corrections. To shed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
profit-increasing behavior are premised on the logic of competition, and this logic breaks down in thin political markets. The result is a structural flaw in the determination of critical institutions of our capitalist system, which, if ignored, can undermine the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
reality. Enron and other corporate scandals early in this decade added legitimacy to complaints that business schools, and their graduates, had lost their way. And with the exception of top-ranked schools, two-year MBA program enrollments...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
recommend should be taken in marketing, strategy, and finance. What business schools need is a course that teaches students how to think and act to build a higher-ambition firm. Q: What are you working on next? A: If business is to regain the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
where she teaches in the Management & Business and International Affairs Programs. Her past research has focused on workplace resistance, technological change and diversity management. She is currently working in the areas of organizational View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
subject, Ranjay Gulati examines the 'network resources' that arise from these ties, how successful firms manage these, and how they influence strategy, access to material resources, and perceptions of a firm's legitimacy held by key...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
in Utah to convert Mormons to traditional Christian belief. After the Mormons acquiesced to federal laws against polygamy and federal pressure to secularize Utah’s governance, the religious conflict over Mormonism’s Christian legitimacy...
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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Periodical:Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This essay aims to address the costs and benefits of constraining cultural displays in the workplace on legal, business, and moral terms. In this article, we invite legal and organizational...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
the legitimacy of taking account of “non-financial” considerations when investing in companies. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51511 forthcoming Management Science Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
these organizational processes can account for the high clustering and short-path distance between nodes that are characteristic of the endemic small-world network structure. Furthermore, the study shows that the concepts of legitimacy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
the course of the 20th century. We use the Wharton School as an illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900-1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business connections and their striving for moral View Details