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Power and Influence - Course Catalog
will also introduce difficult ethical questions associated with the use of power and influence. By design, this course will challenge you to define for yourself what will constitute the ethical exercise of power and influence in your...
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- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
constitute a first level in the system, regulatory systems the second level, and political authority the third. This multi-level system could not emerge until sovereign political authorities relinquished some power in order to release the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
host, Bill Kerr. I’m joined today by my Managing the Future of Work Project co-chair and podcast co-host, Joe Fuller. Joe is the lead author on the project’s recent report on upward mobility, entitled Building From the Bottom Up. The...
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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
background on Baosteel, China's SOE reform, the Chinese government's pilot project on corporate governance, and the functioning of Baosteel's newly constituted board of directors. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
spite of the fact that the Constitution of 1891 included a literacy requirement to vote and gave states the responsibility to spend on education. That is to say, Brazilian states had a significant improvement in education levels and a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career included deep engagement with the world of practice, combination of experience with disciplinary insight to generate practically valuable intellectual capital, research output that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
works with employers and partners to bolster opportunity for underserverd individuals, and how it’s keeping physical and virtual doors open through the pandemic. Joe Fuller: Covid-19 has prompted a reassessment of work. What constitutes a...
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- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
puzzling. We conducted an ethnographic investigation to examine the nature of events that compelled managers to engage in redundant communication. Our study of the communication patterns of project managers in six companies across three...
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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Excerpt from Defense Acquisition Reform 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal. Major Weapon Systems Since World War II military research and development (R&D) has constituted a large share of the total federal R&D effort. In 1960, for...
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- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
many other investments. In the 1990s, inexperienced firms from rich countries jumped directly into huge projects in some of the world's least developed countries. Their investments reflected almost unbridled enthusiasm for emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but they have paid little attention to the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. We propose reach, richness, and receptivity as three fundamental mechanisms that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
What Does It Mean to Be Community Managed? Author:Siobhan O'Mahony Publication:Journal of Management & Governance 11, no. 2 (May 2007): 139-150 Abstract The concept of "open source" software initially referred to software View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;...
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- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
better ex ante allocation of capital to qualified projects that causes creative destruction; rather banking deregulations can also "democratize" entry by allowing many more startups to be founded. The vast majority of these new...
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Martha Lagace