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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Prior research says little on this question because it has tended to study design change and identity change separately. This paper links the two by examining how the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) transformed itself after the 9/11 terrorist...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
sponsorship collaboration between a major global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site major museum (Guggenheim). The primary sources of data were interviews with key representatives over a 12-month period and direct observations....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Whether you sell widgets, designer fashions, or life-saving drugs, mastering the art and science of better analytics can set you ahead of your competitors, according to HBS professor Ananth Raman and Wharton professor Marshall Fisher. Raman explains how in an e-mail...
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- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
"Innovation that matters for our company and the world." The addition of those words "and the world" opened the walls of the company. There are IBM employees I've interviewed all over the world who actually invoke that...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organization and its employees. Podolny, Khurana, and Hill-Popper collaborated on an e-mail interview to explain their latest research for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you wrote in your working paper, the past century saw a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
of lower-level employees of a multiple identity organization. Using interview data, archival data, and longitudinal survey data, we detail the interplay between identities and identification in a non-profit organization, showing that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy. Drawing on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
people-oriented industry, attrition has special import. DeLong and Gabarro, of Harvard Business School, along with former Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young executive Lees, argue that a PSF can gain a much-needed competitive edge by renewing its focus on mentoring....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculine workplaces, making their platforms an ideal site for investigating alternative processes of masculine identity-construction at work. Q: Tell us about your experience on the oil platforms. What was it like to visit and interview...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the...
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
theories we argue that they have been based on an inadequate and insufficiently specified concept of ERM. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and three detailed case studies in high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
able to reallocate resources and reconfigure assets to simultaneously explore and exploit. Using interviews and qualitative case studies from thirteen organizations, this article explores the actions senior managers took to implement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
ventured with a research team inside a dozen global giants—including IBM, Procter & Gamble, Omron, CEMEX, Cisco, and Banco Real—to discover what has been driving the change. After conducting more than 350 interviews on five...
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Martha Lagace