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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
Organization Unilever was an organizational curiosity in that, since 1929, it has been headed by two separate British and Dutch companies—Unilever Ltd. (PLC after 1981), and Unilever N.V.—with different sets of shareholders but identical...
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- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
The modern world is fueled by matchmaking. Going out on the town? Uber pairs you with a driver you can choose based on ratings, proximity, and even car model. Craving a vacation? Simply filter getaways based on locale and price through...
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by Kara Baskin
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
other local businesses, for example. The ABA also strengthened the collective identity of indie bookstores by helping its members share best practices, such as how to use social media to promote special...
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- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
in editions with multiple copies of the same asset, like with trading cards: Two copies of a Charizard card in identical condition are equivalent from the perspective of most collectors. But for our purposes, a Charizard card is still...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
hypotheses and mixed support for our third: organizational infrastructure and identity significantly affect practice adoption, albeit in different ways, but only marginal support for leadership and elite organizational status. Our results...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community...
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Needs (14) Human Resources (284) Identity (5) Immigration (34) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and Deflation (7) Information Management (37) Information Technology...
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- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
lab, and a pharmacy. Could they convince rural Indians to leapfrog from local healers to telemedicine? And could they convince investors that their capital intensive, bundled offering was a high-growth, self-sustaining venture?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
Information-sharing, and Trust), developed by the US Department of Defense's Command and Control Research Program. In the DoD's high-stakes "whodunit" game, players try to solve several aspects of an imaginary pending terrorist attack: the View Details
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
T. Polzer Publication:In Advances in Group Processes. Vol. 28, edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward Lawler, 125-145. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Books, 2011 Abstract Environmental jolts and shifting membership challenge a group's efficacy and survival. Group View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Scholars draw on Pierre Bourdieu, among others, to investigate how businesspeople accumulated not just wealth but cultural and political capital. The work on the rise of right-wing politics in the United States after the 1970s, for example, makes such political...
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Manufacturing
- 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18
initial socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves) led to greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months, compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
a team of agile, imaginative and analytical individuals.” Ovia’s CEO, Paris Wallace, grew up on government assistance in California’s Marin County, one of the wealthiest areas in the United States. Raised by a mother who was single and disabled, he managed to gain...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
decision-making “Minds”—Ideal Point Mind, Market Comparison Mind, Local Comparison Mind, and Image Mind—lead to very different outcomes and behaviors. We have developed the 4 Minds framework to serve as a diagnostic tool to help identify...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do not signal much about one's prosocial identity, so subsequent behavior is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
readers of this book are what I call prospective community-level philanthropists. This covers everything from the neighborhood music school to the local community hospital. The recommendations become more complex with a trustee being more...
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by Danielle Kost