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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the detrimental effects of each trigger. We conclude by discussing implications and recommendations for organizational scholars to take a more integrative approach to developing and evaluating theory about unethical behavior. Learning...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to enable exploitation and exploration, while corporate boundary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Learning By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper theorizes a relationship between legitimacy building and learning for new firms in nascent industries. We conducted a longitudinal study of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
statesmen, capitalists, and intellectuals advocated for territorial rearrangements of various European economies, a discussion that lasted with greater or lesser intensity from the 1870s to the 1950s. Their sometimes competing and sometimes mutually View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
Editor's note. Organizations are living, growing, learning things, but this depth of experience and knowledge can be difficult to tap into. The secret, according to the authors of Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
immediately to his needs and create a better experience for him. "A company's goal should be to learn more about what each customer needs so that it can close the customer sacrifice gap, which is the difference between what...
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by Jean Ayers
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system negatively reinforce one another, spiraling up out of control until they eventually drive the system outside of its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
however, still in the early stages of learning how to use project finance effectively. While the use of project finance exploded in the late 1990s, the excitement over this new tool led to project finance being used in places where it...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
provide business leaders with a helpful tool for evaluating the legal and ethical aspects of their decisions. Managers should first ask themselves whether the proposed action is legal. The legality of the proposed action is addressed first to View Details
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by Carla Tishler
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Management styles and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
short course for first-year MBAs on leadership, values, and decision-making. I reasoned that I would learn more about the questions that had troubled me by teaching the course. I became increasingly interested in practical questions of...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
hire in cohorts are more likely to have strong organizational career imprints. These two factors socially reinforce the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people pick up; they enhance the commonality among...
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by Mallory Stark
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
innovator, and 4) bold business experimentation. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609066 Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Harvard Business School Case 609-018 Explores the journey of...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
of logic to the problems we see in the economy as a whole. That is, we need individuals who, through their experiences, have learned how to internalize high standards and principles. They in turn need a system of governance—of checks and...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
workers' cumulative experience with changeovers. Our results highlight the need for organizations to transform specialization and variety into mutually reinforcing strategies rather than treating them as mutually exclusive. Overall, our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wide array of robustness tests that address the concerns expressed by AS2016. Our empirical findings reinforce the conclusions of CW2013. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52775 Inventory Management for...
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Sean Silverthorne