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Institutional Pressures And Organizational Characteristics: Implications For Environmental Strategy
Nov 2010
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge Into Team Performance
Dec 2010
This paper examines how teams draw on knowledge resources in the firm in the production of novel output. The author theorize positive effects of team use of an organizational knowledge repository...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Employee Selection As A Control System
Sep 2010
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Enterprise Architecture And The Business Rules Life Cycle
Jan 2008
This paper defines and describes the fundamental Business Rule Lifecycle (BRLC) within an advanced logical and physical integration of Enterprise Architecture (EA) including Enterprise Decision...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
The Value Of Decisions
Nov 2007
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Business Rule Solutions: The Value Of Decisions
Nov 2007
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Post-Privatization Changes In Firm Activities, Performance And Management Control: An Empirical Study On Malawian Based Firms
Dec 2009
The Purpose of the paper is to explore how internal and external factors affect the relations among privatization, management control system (MCS) changes and firm performance. The research method...
Provided by Canadian University of Dubai
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White Papers
Financial Statements And Loan Decision In Community Banks
Sep 2008
The loan decision model of community banks is known to differ from loan decision model of large banks. This paper focuses on community banks and examines whether financial statements are important...
Provided by World Business Institute
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White Papers
Organizational Values In Public And Business Organizations In Kuwait
Aug 2010
This paper sheds light on main values of public and business organizations in Kuwait. It tests hypotheses concerning significant relationships between values, type of organizations, and variations...
Provided by World Business Institute
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White Papers
Towards Establishing Global Measures For Organizational Task Environment
Dec 2010
This paper suggests an alternative measure for organizational task environment along a favorable-unfavorable continuum relying on the different operationalizations developed by various scholars....
Provided by World Business Institute
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White Papers
Assessment Reform As A Stimulus For Quality Improvement In University Learning And Teaching: An Australian Case Study
Sep 2008
The essence of higher education leadership is the management of change in an increasingly complex environment. Contemporary challenges include rising student participation and graduation,...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence And Exceptions
Jun 2010
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars in a...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications Of Cross-Border Differences In Decision Making, Governance, And Political Economy
Dec 2009
When facing a negotiation that crosses national borders and/or cultures, the standard preparatory assessments - of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
From Strategy To Business Models And To Tactics
Nov 2009
The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "The logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
The Devil Wears Prada? Effects Of Exposure To Luxury Goods On Cognition And Decision Making
Nov 2009
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Mixed Source
Oct 2010
The authors study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. They examine the firm's choice of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
I Read Playboy For The Articles: Justifying And Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
Sep 2009
Humans are masters of lying and self-deception. The authors want others to believe good, fair, responsible and logical, and they place just as much importance on thinking of this way. Therefore,...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (And Costs) Of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
Aug 2009
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology,...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Does Competition Favor Delegation?
Jul 2009
This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
A Decision-making Perspective To Negotiation: A Review Of The Past And A Look Into The Future
Jul 2009
Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
The Grey Forecasting Model On The Systematic Risk Estimation: An Example Of The Dow Jones Industry Index- Component Stocks
Jun 2008
In the finance studies, a grey forecasting model was first used in the VAR model intending to eliminate noise, increase accuracy of forecasting stocks' prices. The results showed that Grey...
Provided by National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Voluntary Comprehensive Compensation Disclosure And The Firm Value: Empirical Evidence From A Capital Market With Revolutionizing Policies
Jun 2008
This paper analyze the association between compensation disclosure and firm value based on the notion that comprehensive information on compensation provides higher transparency signals and lower...
Provided by National Chiao Tung University
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White Papers
Open Strategies, Open Source Strategies And The Issue Of Value Capture In The Software Industry
Jun 2008
Commercial software is traditionally governed by proprietary licenses that allow usage in exchange for a fee. Since the 90's, more and more commercial software publishers have switched to open...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
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White Papers
Testing The Pecking Order: Evidence From Japanese Firms
Jun 2008
In this paper, the authors test how firm sizes and financial surpluses and deficits affect the pecking order theory's explanation power based on Shyam-Sunder and Myers's basic model. The authors...
Provided by Tohoku University
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White Papers
Driving Team Effectiveness
Aug 2009
As companies restructure, downsize, and reinvent themselves, the new roles being created tend to be team-oriented. Organizations are becoming flatter, leaner, and more agile. A prominent feature...
Provided by Korn/Ferry International
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White Papers
Demographics, Career Concerns Or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?
Feb 2009
The authors use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine the role of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Authority Versus Persuasion
Jun 2009
This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to 'do the right thing' from the principal's perspective. It shows that...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless The Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement
Jan 2009
While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a very small market for ethically-produced products does not reflect this sentiment. One explanation for...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Modeling The Business Environment
Jan 2011
Utilizing the knowledge gained from Y2K efforts, dramatic improvement of the business model is possible. Through a process called Strategic Business Modeling (SBM) this valuable information can be...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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White Papers
Unravelling In Two-Sided Matching Markets And Similarity Of Preferences
Oct 2008
This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unraveling in two-sided matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unraveling. In...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
An Exploration Of The Japanese Slowdown During The 1990s
Nov 2008
This paper shows that a real business cycle model with TFP shocks can reproduce the Japanese fluctuations over the 1990s in output, consumption and investment. This implies that standard macro...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Making The Gambler-s Fallacy Disappear: The Role Of Experience
Sep 2008
The authors examine the role of experience over time in the emergence in binary prediction tasks. Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Applicant And Examiner Citations In US Patents: An Overview And Analysis
Jul 2008
Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. The authors show that examiner citations account for 63 per cent of all citations on the average patent, and...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Communication (And Coordination?) In A Modern, Complex Organization
Jul 2008
This paper explains about the structure of communications in a modern organization. The authors analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
A Replication Study Of Alan Blinder's "How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable"?
Jun 2008
In this working paper, the author assesses the "Offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs were potentially offshorable. This note...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Making Small Work: Business Models For Electrifying The World
Sep 2007
Despite over a century of investment in electric power systems, there are roughly 1.6 billion people who lack access to electricity service, mainly in rural areas. While there are some open...
Provided by Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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White Papers
Unconventional Insights For Managing Stakeholder Trust
Jan 2008
Employees that don't trust their organizations are less loyal, less motivated, and less productive. Customers who perceive a breach of trust are more likely to switch to a competitor. When trust...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Acting Globally But Thinking Locally? The Influence Of Local Communities On Organizations
Nov 2007
The authors develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Recognizing The New: A Multi-Agent Model Of Analogy In Strategic Decision-Making
Oct 2007
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. In this paper, the authors develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Accountability In Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses To Civil Society
Oct 2007
Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
The Role Of Integrity In Individual And Effective Corporate Leadership
May 2010
This paper focuses on the issues of the integrity of the individual and its importance at the corporate level in creating a culture of integrity. Individuals that have integrity build trusting...
Provided by Holy Family University
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Webcasts
One CEO's Take On Talent
Apr 2008
In addition to the practical knowledge to do the job right, Jeff Housenbold, CEO of Shutterfly, seeks out employees that have a healthy self-awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses. In...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Retaining Good People
Nov 2007
Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, suggests strategies to retain good people. Springer suggests that the most important strategy is to help team members feel excited about their career path, whatever...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Dutiful Delegation
Apr 2008
Success is not how smart you are; it's how you can get people to do what you want. Learning to delegate and to build a team was one of the hardest lessons for Jeff Housenbold, the CEO of...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Choosing The Right Projects
May 2009
Despite Microsoft's size and market dominance, CEO Steve Ballmer considers himself to be a "Mini venture capitalist" in a sea of bright ideas and new market possibilities. Working with the best...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Self-Regulation, Ego Depletion, And Motivation
Aug 2007
Motivation is underappreciated in self-regulation theories (as is true in social personality psychology at large). This paper reviews the role of motivation in the context of the strength, or...
Provided by Blackwell Publishing
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White Papers
The Business Motivation Model
Sep 2007
The Business Motivation Model provides a scheme or structure for developing, communicating, and managing business plans in an organized manner. Specifically, it identifies factors that motivate...
Provided by Business Rules Group
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White Papers
Talent Management: Nurturing The Egg
Oct 2007
Three trends are looming over companies as they define their HR strategy. These trends will force them to move away from a strategy based on restructuring to one based on growth and development....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Virtual Property - Business Models And Pitfalls
Sep 2008
In the last several years, online games and communities have experienced exponential growth. A number of these worlds such as EverQuest, Second Life and World of Warcraft are self-contained...
Provided by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
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White Papers
What Is A Business Model?
Sep 2010
In the last few years, the concept of the business model has become popular. New types of businesses, often created using the internet, have needed new models. When designing a new business, the...
Provided by Audience Dialogue
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White Papers
Imitation Is Best Form Of Flattery - And A Good Negotiation Strategy
Aug 2007
Galinsky and his colleagues learned that, when negotiating outcomes, people obtain more value from the deals if they mimic their opponents. Maddux explained that this is because mimicry "Increases...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Social Psychology And Organizations
Aug 2010
As a discipline that studies how people think, feel and behave in social situations, social psychology offers key insights into the interpersonal dynamics of organizations. It draws from...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Facing The Fear Of failure
Sep 2010
One of the most important lessons A. Salman Amin '85 has learned throughout his career is not to fear failure. Amin, PepsiCo's executive vice president for sales and marketing, told Kellogg's...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Age-Old Advice
Sep 2010
If you're looking for good advice, ask an elderly person, according to a new study from the Kellogg School. "Aging is often associated with a host of negative consequences, including issues with...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Webcasts
Give Thoughtful Recognition And Praise
Apr 2009
Be conscious of the in-house messages that you send. Mari Baker, CEO of PlayFirst, encourages business leaders to think about the values of a company that are reflected in its communications; for...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Working With And Making Decisions With Great People
Oct 2007
Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, begins by describing two surprises he encountered when working with great people: first, how difficult it is for experienced people to change and second, how...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Silicon Valley Compared To The World
Oct 2007
Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, compares Silicon Valley to other places in the world and argues there are many more similarities than differences. Indeed, Orr emphasizes only one difference...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Seeking Advice And Guidance As A CEO
Oct 2007
Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, reflects on sources of advice and guidance in his role as CEO. Orr highlights the importance of a rigorous board and advisors to challenge his thinking....
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Impact Of A CEO
Jan 2009
John Sculley, historic CEO of Apple, and Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, both demonstrate the impact that effective leadership can have on business and technology. Both of these large companies...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
'We All Have To Adapt To Change'
Nov 2009
Adaptability and transparency are paramount to weathering the current economic environment, according to real-estate leader Stephen Quazzo. "In business, it isn't just real estate. All have to...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Tuning Into 'Animal Spirits'
May 2009
Animal spirits, a term coined by economist John Maynard Keynes, refers to a sense of consumer trust and confidence, Shiller said. The term also suggests an awareness of fairness, corruption and...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Webcasts
Applying The Law To Open Source Business Models
Oct 2009
Using and understanding intellectual legal rights can be an asset to engineers, says former Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopoulos. In this clip, Papadopoulos explains the difference between...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Potency Of Effective Negotiations
Nov 2008
All organizations of employment have a political structure and revolve around the subtle arts of negotiation and relationship management. How one treat his peers - particularly the subordinates -...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Business School Of Extreme Aerial Surfing
Apr 2010
Entrepreneurship isn't just a sport; it's extreme. John Seely Brown, Deloitte Center for the Edge's Independent Co-Chairman, paid attention when suddenly five of the globe's top aerial surfers...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
How Does Opportunistic Behavior Influence Firm Size? An Evolutionary Approach To Organizational Behavior
Jul 2010
This paper relates firm size and opportunism by showing that, given certain behavioural dispositions of humans, the size of a profit-maximizing firm can be determined by cognitive aspects...
Provided by JOIE Foundation
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White Papers
Corporate Form And Organizational Behavior: Open Versus Closed Joint - Stock Companies In Russia
Dec 2007
The vast majority of Russian corporations are still compelled to become closed joint-stock companies that lack a modern fundrising mechanism in order to attract capital from a wide range of...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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White Papers
Office Environments To Support Future Organizations
Sep 2009
This paper will attempt to arrive at as concise an estimate as possible for the kinds of office environments that will be needed by organizations of the future. To reach that goal, a much...
Provided by Haworth
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White Papers
Sustainability Is A Team Effort: Corporate Sustainability Works Best When Employees Are Stakeholders
Sep 2010
In order to lend insight into the process of change in large corporations, Klaus Weber, an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School, and Sara Soderstrom, a...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Webcasts
Become The Decision Maker
Jan 2010
The case method at HBS Executive Education.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Boardroom Insights: Kirk Cordill
Sep 2010
Kirk Cordill discusses his leadership role as the managing director and CEO of BMW Group Financial Services China.
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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Webcasts
Executive MBA: Values And Integrity
Jan 2010
Barry Van Dyck, Director of Recruiting and Admissions, leads a student panel as they discuss the intersection of personal values and everyday business decisions.
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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Webcasts
Dick Daft
Jun 2009
A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Professor Daft has published 12 books, dozens of articles, and presented at more than 45 universities around the world.
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Webcasts
October 2007: Dean's Speaker Series - Q & A
Jan 2010
In this webcast, Salzberg discusses the evolution of the Deloitte culture and offers unique organizational perspectives with his topic, "Contents Under Pressure: Managing Talent in a...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Webcasts
October 2007: Dean's Speaker Series - Speech
Jan 2010
In this webcast, Salzberg discusses the evolution of the Deloitte culture and offers unique organizational perspectives with his topic, "Contents Under Pressure: Managing Talent in a...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Podcasts
Bob Wall On Coaching For Emotional Intelligence: An Essential Tool For Better Workplace Performance
Jul 2007
When managers coach their team members on their performance, "Emotional intelligence" may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But some believe that performance development depends on the...
Provided by American Management Association
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Podcasts
Bob Nelson On Sparking Motivation And Initiative In Your Team And Yourself
Nov 2007
Bob Nelson is an international recognized expert on finding these kinds of simple yet powerful ways to motivate people at work. Nelson is founder and president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a...
Provided by American Management Association
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Webcasts
A Hospital For Everyone
Mar 2009
In this podcast, Founder of Narayana Heart Hospital in Bangalore, India, Dr. Devi Shetty discusses his ingenious business model during the Boston University School of Management India Field Seminar.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
The Role Of Helping Behavior In Organizations
Oct 2009
In this podcast, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation Stine Grodal discusses the role of helping behavior in organizations, especially among knowledge workers. Her work identifies...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Podcasts
Critical Leader Relationships (Audio)
Jan 2010
Professor Nigel Nicholson explains why it's really important when we're selecting people that we work with, we don't just clone ourselves.
Provided by London Business School
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Podcasts
Nigel Nicholson - Critical Leader Relationships
Jan 2010
It's really important that we, when we're selecting people that we work with, don't just clone ourselves...
Provided by London Business School
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White Papers
Institutional Pressures And Organizational Characteristics: Implications For Environmental Strategy
Nov 2010
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge Into Team Performance
Dec 2010
This paper examines how teams draw on knowledge resources in the firm in the production of novel output. The author theorize positive effects of team use of an organizational knowledge repository...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Employee Selection As A Control System
Sep 2010
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Enterprise Architecture And The Business Rules Life Cycle
Jan 2008
This paper defines and describes the fundamental Business Rule Lifecycle (BRLC) within an advanced logical and physical integration of Enterprise Architecture (EA) including Enterprise Decision...
Provided by Business Process Trends
-
White Papers
The Value Of Decisions
Nov 2007
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
Provided by Business Process Trends
-
White Papers
Business Rule Solutions: The Value Of Decisions
Nov 2007
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
Provided by Business Process Trends
-
White Papers
Post-Privatization Changes In Firm Activities, Performance And Management Control: An Empirical Study On Malawian Based Firms
Dec 2009
The Purpose of the paper is to explore how internal and external factors affect the relations among privatization, management control system (MCS) changes and firm performance. The research method...
Provided by Canadian University of Dubai
-
White Papers
Financial Statements And Loan Decision In Community Banks
Sep 2008
The loan decision model of community banks is known to differ from loan decision model of large banks. This paper focuses on community banks and examines whether financial statements are important...
Provided by World Business Institute
-
White Papers
Organizational Values In Public And Business Organizations In Kuwait
Aug 2010
This paper sheds light on main values of public and business organizations in Kuwait. It tests hypotheses concerning significant relationships between values, type of organizations, and variations...
Provided by World Business Institute
-
White Papers
Towards Establishing Global Measures For Organizational Task Environment
Dec 2010
This paper suggests an alternative measure for organizational task environment along a favorable-unfavorable continuum relying on the different operationalizations developed by various scholars....
Provided by World Business Institute
-
White Papers
Assessment Reform As A Stimulus For Quality Improvement In University Learning And Teaching: An Australian Case Study
Sep 2008
The essence of higher education leadership is the management of change in an increasingly complex environment. Contemporary challenges include rising student participation and graduation,...
Provided by OECD
-
White Papers
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence And Exceptions
Jun 2010
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars in a...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications Of Cross-Border Differences In Decision Making, Governance, And Political Economy
Dec 2009
When facing a negotiation that crosses national borders and/or cultures, the standard preparatory assessments - of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
From Strategy To Business Models And To Tactics
Nov 2009
The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "The logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
The Devil Wears Prada? Effects Of Exposure To Luxury Goods On Cognition And Decision Making
Nov 2009
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Mixed Source
Oct 2010
The authors study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. They examine the firm's choice of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
I Read Playboy For The Articles: Justifying And Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
Sep 2009
Humans are masters of lying and self-deception. The authors want others to believe good, fair, responsible and logical, and they place just as much importance on thinking of this way. Therefore,...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (And Costs) Of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
Aug 2009
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology,...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Does Competition Favor Delegation?
Jul 2009
This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
A Decision-making Perspective To Negotiation: A Review Of The Past And A Look Into The Future
Jul 2009
Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
The Grey Forecasting Model On The Systematic Risk Estimation: An Example Of The Dow Jones Industry Index- Component Stocks
Jun 2008
In the finance studies, a grey forecasting model was first used in the VAR model intending to eliminate noise, increase accuracy of forecasting stocks' prices. The results showed that Grey...
Provided by National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
-
White Papers
Voluntary Comprehensive Compensation Disclosure And The Firm Value: Empirical Evidence From A Capital Market With Revolutionizing Policies
Jun 2008
This paper analyze the association between compensation disclosure and firm value based on the notion that comprehensive information on compensation provides higher transparency signals and lower...
Provided by National Chiao Tung University
-
White Papers
Open Strategies, Open Source Strategies And The Issue Of Value Capture In The Software Industry
Jun 2008
Commercial software is traditionally governed by proprietary licenses that allow usage in exchange for a fee. Since the 90's, more and more commercial software publishers have switched to open...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
-
White Papers
Testing The Pecking Order: Evidence From Japanese Firms
Jun 2008
In this paper, the authors test how firm sizes and financial surpluses and deficits affect the pecking order theory's explanation power based on Shyam-Sunder and Myers's basic model. The authors...
Provided by Tohoku University
-
White Papers
Driving Team Effectiveness
Aug 2009
As companies restructure, downsize, and reinvent themselves, the new roles being created tend to be team-oriented. Organizations are becoming flatter, leaner, and more agile. A prominent feature...
Provided by Korn/Ferry International
-
White Papers
Demographics, Career Concerns Or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?
Feb 2009
The authors use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine the role of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Authority Versus Persuasion
Jun 2009
This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to 'do the right thing' from the principal's perspective. It shows that...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless The Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement
Jan 2009
While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a very small market for ethically-produced products does not reflect this sentiment. One explanation for...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Modeling The Business Environment
Jan 2011
Utilizing the knowledge gained from Y2K efforts, dramatic improvement of the business model is possible. Through a process called Strategic Business Modeling (SBM) this valuable information can be...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
-
White Papers
Unravelling In Two-Sided Matching Markets And Similarity Of Preferences
Oct 2008
This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unraveling in two-sided matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unraveling. In...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
An Exploration Of The Japanese Slowdown During The 1990s
Nov 2008
This paper shows that a real business cycle model with TFP shocks can reproduce the Japanese fluctuations over the 1990s in output, consumption and investment. This implies that standard macro...
Provided by Harvard University
-
White Papers
Making The Gambler-s Fallacy Disappear: The Role Of Experience
Sep 2008
The authors examine the role of experience over time in the emergence in binary prediction tasks. Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Applicant And Examiner Citations In US Patents: An Overview And Analysis
Jul 2008
Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. The authors show that examiner citations account for 63 per cent of all citations on the average patent, and...
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Communication (And Coordination?) In A Modern, Complex Organization
Jul 2008
This paper explains about the structure of communications in a modern organization. The authors analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences...
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A Replication Study Of Alan Blinder's "How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable"?
Jun 2008
In this working paper, the author assesses the "Offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs were potentially offshorable. This note...
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Making Small Work: Business Models For Electrifying The World
Sep 2007
Despite over a century of investment in electric power systems, there are roughly 1.6 billion people who lack access to electricity service, mainly in rural areas. While there are some open...
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Unconventional Insights For Managing Stakeholder Trust
Jan 2008
Employees that don't trust their organizations are less loyal, less motivated, and less productive. Customers who perceive a breach of trust are more likely to switch to a competitor. When trust...
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Acting Globally But Thinking Locally? The Influence Of Local Communities On Organizations
Nov 2007
The authors develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization...
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Recognizing The New: A Multi-Agent Model Of Analogy In Strategic Decision-Making
Oct 2007
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. In this paper, the authors develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to...
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Accountability In Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses To Civil Society
Oct 2007
Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the...
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