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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
“Those interactions catalyzed a whole conversation and movement. If you can create a public conversation about something, that itself has enormous power. Today, transport is front and center of the megapolis, which hadn’t been the case.”...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
identities, specifically previously enacted ones, constitute potent incentives for inducing efforts or actions. People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates Authors:Jeana H. Frost, Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton, and Dan Ariely...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
positive work-oriented behaviors. These key themes provide the foundation for further theorizing suggesting that interactions at work confirm or disconfirm employees’ need fulfillment expectations, leading to different levels of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
interactions of individuals, typically situated within small groups or teams. When these groups make appropriate changes in how they do their work—driven by both group and organizational goals—an organization maintains or enhances its...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
an engaged workforce and a strong capacity for change. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months, and this book is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn’t. China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From...
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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
individuals, as in a team) and gave them collective responsibility for a whole task. We conceptualized the mesolevel structures as team scaffolds and found that they embodied the logic of both role and team structures. The team scaffolds enabled small group View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons School of Management (Boston). Laura’s research centers on cultivating positive identities in diverse work organizations. She examines these processes through the lens of: best-self actualization, View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
only when you must resolve a problem, you’ll be interacting only at time of pressure and even conflict—not the best way to begin or sustain a fruitful relationship. Even in a network of ongoing relationships built around long-term mutual...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
factors like wind and water. “There are strategic and tactical elements to sailing,” says Dillon, a native of Ireland. “You need to decide where you want to go and what your competitors are doing. It’s kind of an View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
The BP case also illustrates that investor relations is increasingly looking for a more strategic role to play within an organization, trying to take its work to a new level. Q: "Investor Relations at TOTAL" is set in a...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
The first question focuses on motivations, while the second one has more to do with the benefits sought in interactions with future partners. Altruism As a general rule, collaboration efforts between companies and CSOs have an inherent...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
practices; yet, tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
from Apple, NASA, and LEGO. We suggest that task decomposition and problem-solving knowledge distribution are not deterministic but are strategic choices. If dynamic capabilities are associated with innovation streams, and if different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
harder-even in the absence of repeated interactions or strategic career concerns. In a field experiment with 266 employees, we show that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
industry life cycle? Tony Mayo: My research with Nitin Nohria on entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders of the 20th century began with the creation of the Great American Business Leaders database about six years ago. In building the database, we explored the View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
learning program? Do we need a new kind of role? DL: I think in most organizations it's HR's function. But we need HR people who are very strategic thinkers and not everyone is. Some organizations have created a chief learning officer or...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network structure with patent growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to...
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