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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
think that's important is the employee value proposition or what employees are looking for from their employer has gone through a similar transformation. As an example, I think there was a period of time where the employee-employer View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal logic for how these efforts help the company, and it does not...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
author's connection to the media outlet is related to the outcome of the review decision. When a book's author also writes for a media outlet, that outlet is 25% more likely to review the book relative to other media outlets, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
people to donate directly to the organizations fighting COVID on-ground in India in return offering consultations related to the MBA journey, including assisting with GMAT/GRE prep, school selection, application planning, and essay...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
coordination as measured by the value of integrated production is negatively correlated with delegation. Surprisingly, absolute size of the firm is negatively related to delegation. The overall pattern of results highlights the need for a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly related to mining, such as trade,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy session. In a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
automakers, but a psychological one,” Salter observes. “It required altering long-established methods, traditions, and ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
gamut from a PhD all the way to a lab technician. We have contracts with the United States government. We’re working on the vaccine response and tracking. We also provide lab technicians that are working with major pharmaceutical and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
software products? Or is there something about actual placements and something related to the numbers of hires or what they’re paid or the types of ways that often job boards or headhunters are paid?Lord: We’re approaching $100,000,000 of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
group of people that were strategically relevant to them in a pretty special way. So, they were talent populations that for whatever reason, Fortune 500 company X was not only needing in large quantity but also needing for a transformational reason because of some core...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City...
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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that...
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Martha Lagace