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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional...
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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
compared to 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We find that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger and that appointed analysts appear to be more closely tied to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
joined Bridgespan as temporary externs, permanent staff, and board members. Of the current staff of 170, spread over offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, 22 arrived from Bain. Bridgespan also maintains close ties to HBS....
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he had learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why did the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the candidate rather than take...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Maurer examines the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
tacitly) of the negative connotations and want to avoid them. Men want to achieve within their organizations and become respected as pillars of their communities. But they don't want to be considered boring organization men who are too View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
spatial spillovers fundamentally depend on the presence of existing relationships. Using multidimensional network formation data from the random placement of teams at a startup boot camp, we show that spatial spillovers decline if team members have existing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
enables the fledgling units to share important resources from the traditional units—cash, talent, expertise, customers, and so on," they write, "but the organizational separation ensures that these new units' distinctive...
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by Paul Michelman
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
creativity is absolutely essential for current business success. I define creativity as producing novel, workable ideas and solutions to problems; innovation is implementing those ideas within an organizational context. You need novel and...
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Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Exceptions By: Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
employees of the chairman and CEO. Ethical Discipline What Skilling and chairman Kenneth Lay failed to understand as leaders is that compliance with espoused ethical and legal standards is an organizational achievement. Or to put it...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
strive to compete globally, their relationships with local communities have changed, says HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "Now that many businesses have focused beyond our borders," she says, "the ties with home communities that have...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured around the main themes of View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son has...
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by Carmen Nobel