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- 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1
findings that have implications for theory and practice, and that suggest new directions for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-093.pdf Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
wrote in 1990, Executive's Guide to Motivating People: How Freudian Theory Can Turn Good Executives into Better Leaders. The book is an introduction to psychoanalytic theory and aims to help the executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Matt Thurmond
class, you see a specific business situation; you have to apply a multitude of theories and ideas to come to a decision, an action. For me, it means creating a habit of informed decision-making. And it develops my communication skills.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
didn’t know what body we would be born into, an idea from A Theory of Justice by John Rawls. If that were true, we would create a society that was best for the worst-off people. I admired Buffett for being someone who has so much and yet... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its validity more rigorously by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1997
- Case
Paula Morton
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane and Linda LaGorga
An MBA student is offered a job to turn around a publishing company with little chance of survival. The student is between her first and second year at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case describes both her management philosophy and the actions taken. The document... View Details
Keywords: Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Theory; Publishing Industry
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane, and Linda LaGorga. "Paula Morton." Harvard Business School Case 398-037, October 1997.
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Data Visualization for Analysis and Communication - Course Catalog
that will require building visualizations in Tableau as well as extended in-class critiques. Specific objectives include: An understanding of the basic theory behind data visualization: perceptual science, design, and technical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
often do so by employing the lesson revealed by Zhang and her coauthors: The path to good might begin by embracing could.—Francis Storrs “Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight,” by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and... View Details
- fall 1995
- Article
Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Examines the antitrust treatment of private-sector standard setting in the U.S. Applicability of law and decision-making issues in high technology industries; Examination of cost-based facilitating theory; Approach to evaluate the reasonableness of a standard. View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Information Technology; Law; Decision Making; Cost; Theory; Performance Evaluation; Standards; United States
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries." Antitrust Law Journal 64, no. 1 (fall 1995): 247–265. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Sustainability through Partnering: Conceptualizing Partnerships between Businesses and NGOs Author:James E. Austin Publication:Chap. 3 in Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Emerald Press, forthcoming Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne