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- January 2009
- Article
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Performance Improvement;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Management Science 55, no. 1 (January 2009): 85–100.
- 15 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations
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by Christine L. Exley
- 2023
- Working Paper
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences
By: Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller and Joel Stiebale
We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States
from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more
than 100 distinct product categories to estimate demand systems with flexible...
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Keywords:
Market Power;
Markups;
Demand Estimation;
Consumer Products;
Retailers;
Product;
Price;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior
Döpper, Hendrik, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller, and Joel Stiebale. "Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-025, October 2021. (Revised March 2023. Direct download.)
- 2003
- Chapter
The Role of Money in Monetary Policy Making
By: Klaus Masuch, Sergio Nicoletti Altimari, Huw Pill and Massimo Rostagno
Masuch, Klaus, Sergio Nicoletti Altimari, Huw Pill, and Massimo Rostagno. "The Role of Money in Monetary Policy Making." Chap. 8 in Background Studies for the ECB's Evaluation of Its Monetary Policy Strategy, edited by Otmar Issing, 187–228. Frankfurt: European Central Bank, 2003.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Role of Judgment in Global Climate Change
By: M. H. Bazerman, C. Buisseret and K. A. Wade-Benzoni
Bazerman, M. H., C. Buisseret, and K. A. Wade-Benzoni. "The Role of Judgment in Global Climate Change." In Global Climate Change, edited by A. Hoffman. Jossey-Bass, 1998.
- August 2016
- Article
The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences
By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Leslie K. John
Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic lake vacations and chic city vacations or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the...
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Keywords:
Perceived Similarity;
Prediction Error;
Preference Prediction;
Self-other Difference;
Social Inference;
Cognition and Thinking;
Perception;
Forecasting and Prediction
Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie K. John. "The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 53, no. 4 (August 2016): 597–607.
- February 2009 (Revised November 2016)
- Exercise
Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Projects;
Research and Development;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Cooperation;
Congo Basin
McGinn, Kathleen L., Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos." Harvard Business School Exercise 909-040, February 2009. (Revised November 2016.)
- 01 Jan 1977
- Conference Presentation
The Roles for Research and Development in Auditing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- 04 Feb 2008
- HBS Conference
Transparency and Accountability: The Role of Information Disclosure
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Being a role model as well as a teacher
Anthony Priest (MBA 1996), program specialist at DC Public Schools, talks about being a role model for inner-city youths. “The first class I took on classroom management, the teacher said, ‘You never have to raise your voice.’ And I agree...
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- May 2002 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership
Explores the area of education and ways in which corporations have played a role in its improvement. Not intended to cover all examples of corporate involvement but, instead, to provide a sense of the range of ways that corporations have become involved, either...
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Keywords:
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Education Industry
Barrett, Diana, and Sheila McCarthy. "U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 302-087, May 2002. (Revised July 2002.)
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The Role of Leaders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics The Role of Leaders The Role...
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- 2006
- Chapter
Competitiveness in Developing Economies: The Role of Clusters and Cross-Cutting Policies
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Competitiveness is high up on the policy agenda for countries around the world and at all stages of development. But while there is little disagreement that countries need to "upgrade their competitiveness"—even more so as the level of globalization is increasing—there...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Framework;
Globalization;
Policy;
Growth and Development;
Industry Clusters;
Competitive Strategy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Competitiveness in Developing Economies: The Role of Clusters and Cross-Cutting Policies." In Nurturing the Sources of Growth in Tanzania -- Workshop Proceedings. Dar-es-Salam: Tanzania Ministry of Planning, Economy, and Empowerment, 2006.
- 14 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Incentive Salience in Habit Formation
- Research Summary
Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity
Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource...
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- May–June 1999
- Article
Changing Leaders: The Board's Role in CEO Succession
By: J. W. Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana
Lorsch, J. W., and Rakesh Khurana. "Changing Leaders: The Board's Role in CEO Succession." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 3 (May–June 1999).
- Article
The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy
By: Matthew Joseph, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to...
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Joseph, Matthew, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy." Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 60th (2019).
- October 3, 2016
- Article
Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This article summarizes recent research on how immigrants contribute to the formation of U.S. start-ups and the traits of the businesses founded.
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 3, 2016).