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- March 2016
- Article
Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms
By: Adam Tatarynowicz, Maxim Sytch and Ranjay Gulati
This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing interorganizational networks in six industries with an agent-based simulation model of network emergence....
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Interorganizatonal Relationships;
Social Networks;
Network Emergence;
Interorganizational Networks;
Information Technology;
Networks;
Organizational Structure;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Media
Tatarynowicz, Adam, Maxim Sytch, and Ranjay Gulati. "Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 1 (March 2016): 52–86.
- Research Summary
Divergent change in organizations
By: Julie Battilana
The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/economics/economics-general-interest/democracy-and-its-elected-enemies-american-political-capture-and-economic-decline August 2013 Journal of Marketing Research Contingent Match Incentives...
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Sean Silverthorne
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The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Connectivity
While investigating how workplace transparency and privacy shape organizational behavior and performance, I wondered about the related effects of workplace connectivity. As new digital tools and organizational forms make it far easier for employees to communicate... View Details
- September 2010
- Article
How Firms Respond to Being Rated
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms...
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System;
Information;
Decisions;
Cost;
Opportunities;
Performance;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Economics;
Theory;
System Shocks;
Rank and Position
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Being Rated." Strategic Management Journal 31, no. 9 (September 2010): 917–945. (Lead article.)
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
Psychology Time, Money, and Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We highlight recent research examining how people should manage their most precious resources—time and money—to maximize their happiness. Contrary to people’s intuitions,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG A Contingency View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Ebrahim explains. You can count the number of people being fed, sheltered, and clothed. “The implication for managers is to figure out where their organization sits in the contingency framework.” "A more complex View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership...
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by Deepak Malhotra
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Marketing Association Foundation with the 25-Year Consortium Fellow Research Excellence Award for Scholarly Achievement and Contribution to Marketing Thought and Practice. V. Kasturi Rangan: "Putting the Brakes on Impact: A Contingency...
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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Leadership As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership-and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others-has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School's...
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by Staff
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Contingent Capital.” Boris Vallee: Winner of a Benjamin Delessert Award for Household Savings Special Jury Prize in 2015 for his PhD thesis, "Three Essays on Financial Intermediation." Boris Vallee: Winner of 2015 Best PhD Thesis in...
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- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
common fee structure is contingent free shipping, in which consumers are granted free shipping for basket sizes above a minimum value and are charged a flat fee for orders below this threshold. We seek to characterize how View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42640 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006
Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision paradox in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
influential financial expert. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=11-068.pdf Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
and impact of ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and three detailed case studies, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
has provided strong endorsement: "Boards should require that all directors submit a resignation as a matter of course upon retirement, a change in employer, or other significant change in their professional roles and responsibilities." The question is, why? If the...
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Joseph Hinsey IV