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- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research over many decades in public...
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- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see until I did the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
that realm," he says. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at HBS, where he has taught and researched for over 47 years. He is the author of many articles and books about boards of directors, including Pawns or...
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by Julia Hanna
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review literature from two separate bodies of literature. Research in psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations sheds...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
cultural icons are built. Icons are the big winners of the culture share game. I conduct historical studies of brands like Volkswagen, Budweiser, Harley, Nike, and Mountain Dew. One of the key findings of my research is that all of these...
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by Manda Salls
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent...
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- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
others are hard at work creating experiences that will be much richer, but just as easy to initiate and engage in. Q: What other areas are you focusing on with regard to broadband, given its current state? A: The chapter in the book on Internet2, the View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
and the Computer Graphics Revolution Harvard Business School Case 607-036 Computer science departments were new to universities in the 1960s, and the one created at the University of Utah by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland had a research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Research has long shown that organizations shape members' identities. However, the possibility that these identities might also be desired and that members might benefit from this...
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Martha Lagace