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How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Published:September 2, 2010Author:Jim Heskett The case study for this month is inspired by the Hewlett-Packard board, which deserves some kind of award for continuing to supply business schools with...
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Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
Q&A with:William W. GeorgePublished:September 7, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne Asian beliefs, philosophies, and practices are influencing everything from the way we treat the ill to how we make...
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With the emerging world of smartphone app development as a backdrop, a new case study explores how early inflection points can make a difference to a start-up's trajectory. AirStrip Technologies has...
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Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the...
Published:September 9, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Authors:Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart Executive Summary: In science-based industries, innovation requires bridging the boundary between...
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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations
Published:September 10, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Executive Summary: Security analysts are increasingly awarding more favorable ratings to firms with...
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The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Q&A with:Anat KeinanPublished:September 13, 2010Author:Martha Lagace Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally...
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While many expect venture capital to be a prime source of start-up funding for companies entering the dynamic clean energy markets, it's not at all clear that the VC industry is poised to take...
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From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists'...
Published:September 15, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Authors:Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart Executive Summary: Does gender affect whether a university scientist will be invited to...
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Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
Published:September 20, 2010Author:Julia Hanna We can't be the alpha dog all of the time. Whatever our personality, most of us experience varying degrees of feeling in charge. Some situations take us...
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Although much empirical research is devoted to exploring how information communication technologies affect firm organization, much is to be learned by separating information from communication,...
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The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese...
Published:September 22, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Author:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino Executive Summary: Boredom and fatigue often hamper the productivity of workers whose jobs consist of...
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Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Q&A with:Heidi K. GardnerPublished:September 27, 2010Author:Sarah Jane Gilbert It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes...
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An organization's library of codified knowledge should help project teams perform better, but does it? There appear to be few answers from existing research. Looking at large-scale, objective data from...
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Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
Published:September 29, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Executive Summary: Business cycle fluctuations in developed economies tend...
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Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?
Published:September 30, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Joanne Horton, George Serafeim, and Ioanna Serafeim Executive Summary: Created by the International Accounting Standards Board, the...
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Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
Published:October 4, 2010Author:Carmen Nobel We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain extroverted CEO stereotypes: C for charismatic, E for effusive, and O for outgoing. To wit:...
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Research has demonstrated that well-performing firms are more likely to hire nonminority candidates into lower-level jobs than poorly performing firms--and this proved true in "Reversing the Queue:...
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A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
Published:October 5, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas Executive Summary: Considering that the topic of workplace diversity often garners unhappy discussions...
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Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance
Published:October 6, 2010Paper Released:August, 2010Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine, and Amy C. Edmondson Executive Summary: An organization's captured (and codified) knowledge--white...
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
Published:October 6, 2010Authors:John Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea...
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