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What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying RelevantWhat Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant 

Many executives are confident they can retain their skills over time. Experience shows they are wrong. Just look at the National Football League's "Black Monday" for proof, says Boris Groysberg.  
16 Jan 2019  |  Research & Ideas

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These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

by Bill George
  • 14 Jan 2019
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  • Op-Ed
At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of leadership forever, says Bill George.

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik
  • 16 Jan 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
Many executives are confident they can retain their skills over time. Experience shows they are wrong. Just look at the National Football League's "Black Monday" for proof, says Boris Groysberg.

Why Employers Favor Men

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2017
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  • Research & Ideas
Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? Research by Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle finds the answer is more subtle than expected.

Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?

Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
  • 10 Jan 2019
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  • Cold Call Podcast
How deeply does the culture of a startup matter? Can it be shaped? Professor Jeffrey Rayport discusses WeWork cofounder Miguel McKelvey’s innovative role in building a company culture to support rapid growth.

New Working Papers 

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

The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets

by Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner
  • 15 JAN 2019

The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons

by Frank Nagle
  • 04 JAN 2019

Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of US Green Bonds

by Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim, and Jeffrey Wurgler
  • 03 JAN 2019

Team Learning Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance

by Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson
  • 27 DEC 2018

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

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Causes and Consequences of Withholding Critical Feedback in Organizations

Ashley Whillans and Chuck Howard

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