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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly...
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In industries characterized by extreme dynamism, complexity, and uncertainty, formal structure often “falls behind” actual work processes. The nature of work in these environments evolves continuously while formal structure can only do so at specific times in discrete...
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- 04 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
female grads take time out from the workforce at some point in their careers, she said. Her program, Charting Your Course, was designed to assist many alumnae who have taken time off to either raise families or pursue other options more...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
conclusion after studying research published between 1958 and 2001. Their findings were recorded in their paper "Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found," published by the Journal of Management, December, 2003. View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
the distortion, misrepresentation, and gaming that can happen in even the most ethical companies," Hope continues. "If you're a manager trying to increase spending or get a capital project approved, you put in for 50 percent more than you need, knowing you'll...
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by Loren Gary
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
venture capital world is basically comprised of numbers. You have somewhere between 50% and 90% failure rate in the venture capital world. That's how it works. You make bets. It's probability. "From the incubator side, we're really driven mainly View Details
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by Kenneth Liss
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from them: facts. The arguments are familiar by now. Immigrants take jobs from native-born...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
provided by us willingly.” George Yurieff put it this way: “If you are concerned about your privacy and want to somehow protect yourself to some extent, start paying for services which you want to use stop...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests
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by Arthur Daemmrich
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
real interest rate, compared to the standard 0.3 percent, and was announced as "the best option in the market" for saving. Groups were randomly assigned to one of the three savings options and managed by the Chilean microfinance...
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by Kim Girard
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 07 Sep 2016
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How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
without funding the enforcement of existing laws is pointless.” Greg chose to explore the affect of networks on organization design and function. He challenged us with a comment that networks are a threat to hierarchies and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If you're tied down by your job...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing...
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by Julie Jette
- 14 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
at length about the The Pay Problem posed by executive compensation in a May/June 2010 article in Harvard Magazine. There we argued that evidence of the link between executive compensation and company performance is not clear. We noted,...
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by Jim Aisner
- 11 Sep 2012
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Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
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by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
director Nandita Das became its unofficial brand ambassador, speaking out against skin color discrimination (or “colorism”) and refusing to be air brushed or lightened for her film roles. The campaign was designed to get attention, and...
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