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- 2018
- Report
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is...
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- December 2017 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
The BGIE Twenty (2021 version)
By: Alberto Cavallo, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons and Matthew Weinzierl
The purpose of this technical note is to explain the BGIE Twenty, an “idea-kit” that serves as the intellectual backbone of the BGIE course. Each year, the BGIE professors decide on the twenty ideas that we believe are the most important for students to study in...
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- November 2017
- Case
Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the...
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Keywords:
Duke University;
University Governance;
Internationalization;
Duke Kunshan University;
Interdisciplinarity;
Higher Education;
Interdisciplinary Studies;
Global Strategy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business History;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategic Planning;
Education Industry;
United States;
China;
Singapore
- March 2017
- Case
Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research...
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Keywords:
Education;
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Executive Education;
Higher Education;
Interdisciplinary Studies;
Learning;
History;
Business History;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizations;
Practice;
Relationships;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Rank and Position;
Research;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Status and Position;
Trust;
Society;
Social Issues;
Theory;
Education Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Illinois
- 2015
- Chapter
Consuming Brands
By: Jill Avery and Anat Keinan
Traditional definitions of branding often underestimate the value a brand has for infusing a choice situation with meaning. This chapter explores how people consume brands and presents three perspectives on the meaning of brands that have diverse theoretical roots in...
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- Article
The Integration of Psychological and Network Perspectives in Organizational Scholarship
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Sigal G. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, Cristina B. Gibson, David Krackhardt and Giuseppe Labianca
Although multiple disciplines have been applied to the study of organizations, organizational research is rarely interdisciplinary in the sense of two or more disciplines being linked in the joint analysis of organizational phenomena. The articles in this special issue...
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- August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation
By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron, Jacob Mathew Chacko and Robin Jian Tang
In 2010, organ transplantation remained among the few sets of medical conditions in the U.S. for which bundled payments were a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was...
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- 2010
- Article
Creativity
By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile
The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review,...
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- 2010
- Book
Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in the world," these same schools produce...
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- September 2000
- Case
MBA in Jeopardy (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Gagan Gupta and Phani K. Nagarjuna
Supplements the (A) case.
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- Teaching Interest
Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)
Business, Government, and the International Economy is a course about how the world works. More specifically, BGIE (pronounced “biggie”) is a course of study through which we seek to understand better the economic, political, and historical forces that determine the... View Details