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Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?   

In a recent statement from the Business Roundtable, 200 powerful CEOs said corporations should widen their missions beyond just maximizing profits for shareholders.  
23 Aug 2019  |  Research & Ideas

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How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

by Julia Austin
  • 12 Aug 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
As small companies grow to around 100 employees, the skills of their managers are challenged in new ways. Julia Austin describes how leaders themselves must scale.

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

by Kristen Senz
  • 29 Jul 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
Letting independent workers choose their locations can boost companies, employees, and even the economy, according to research by Prithwiraj Choudhury and colleagues.

Make Your Employees Feel Psychologically Safe

by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2018
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  • Book
To do their best work, people need to feel secure and safe in their workplace. In a new book, Amy C. Edmondson details how companies can develop psychological safety.

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Feb 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
Researchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities.

New Working Papers 

Scholarly papers that describe original research in a narrow field of study.

Improving Customer Compatibility with Operational Transparency

by Ryan W. Buell and MoonSoo Choi
  • 21 AUG 2019

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and US

by Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen, and Harald Fadinger
  • 20 AUG 2019

Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances

by Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins
  • 12 AUG 2019

Varieties of Outward Chinese Capital: Domestic Politics Status and Globalization of Chinese Firms

by Meg Rithmire
  • 10 AUG 2019

The Research Exchange 

The Research Exchange is a way for faculty and corporate partners to collaborate on the following field studies.

Transparency & Productivity

Ethan Bernstein

Best Practices for Considering Contract Workers

Christopher Stanton

Causes and Consequences of Withholding Critical Feedback in Organizations

Ashley Whillans and Chuck Howard

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