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In a September 2005 Harvard Business Review article aptly entitled “All Strategy Is Local,” Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn argue that the most successful firms these days are “‘local,’ either in the geographic sense or in the sense of being limited to one product or a handful of related...
Clear and credible information can help alleviate this fear of the unknown outcomes caused by change. 2. The “Moral Force.” Humans tend to become set in their routines to such an extent that they resist change because they truly believe that the status quo is best. It goes something...
. . . The Supreme Court is scheduled on Oct. 31 to hear the lawsuits brought by the anti-affirmative action organization Students for Fair Admissions that challenge the race-conscious methods that Harvard and the University of North Carolina use to pick freshman classes. The organization says tha...
this article examines how a good organization can lead to employees’ unethical behavior. The main idea is that the more ethical an organization becomes, the higher, in some respects, is the likelihood of unethical behavior. This is due to four threatening forces that become stronger when an or...
“Crisis mapping is a form of media, and media becomes a contested space when real-world conflicts are taking place,” says Ethan Zuckerman, a board member for Ushahidi and a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. “There’s been online co...
This gives an extra verisimilitude to the story, making it credible that Gilgamesh, hero or not, would be able to swim to the bottom. At Dilmun, Gilgamesh meets Utnapishtim, the Sumerian Noah, who was granted immortality for riding out the great Flood sent by the gods. He tells Gilgamesh...
To ensure a credible commitment in the relation between trader and shoemaker, the trader issues a paper slip to the shoemaker a so-called parchi which bears the outstanding amount, to be payable at the end of 3 months. The parchi is tradable in the market at a discount. The discount rate...
The significant program announcement effect can be seen as a matter of managing regulatory risk. If firms see the policy announcement as credible, it may be rational to retool to lower-carbon technology soon after announcement to be better positioned for the policy change when it does occur. ...
the impact on a man’s prospects of fathering a child has been overstated. A2021 studyby Harvard researchers — several of whom had backgrounds in philosophy and history — suggested that, “above a critical threshold”, more sperm is not necessarily an indicator of health or fertility. Sperm...