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- 15 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes
- September 2009
- Article
Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?
As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"...
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Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Goals and Objectives;
Resource Allocation;
Operations;
Performance Efficiency
Huckman, Robert S. "Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 9 (September 2009): 90–95.
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Curriculum - Case Method Project
Buren. The case culminates in a decision over whether the state legislature should continue to control the creation of each new bank in the state—through the so-called bank chartering system—or relinquish this View Details
- 03 Mar 2022
- News
Does Your Company Offer Fruitful Careers—or Dead-End Jobs?
- February 2021
- Background Note
Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox
By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman and Katie Zandbergen
The Jobs to Be Done methodology is both a theory and a practical approach for understanding customer behavior and why people make the choices they make. Many practitioners, whether they work for startups or incumbent businesses, find Jobs to Be Done useful because it...
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Customer Value and Value Chain;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Attitudes;
Perception;
Theory;
Behavior;
Customer Relationship Management
van Bever, Derek C. M., Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman, and Katie Zandbergen. "Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-095, February 2021.
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Placement - Doctoral
Conlon Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Stanford University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024), Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Assistant Professor (2024) Dissertation:...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
methods and to make decisions on quantitative analysis. This book offers a variety of practical tools and examples to improve a manager's understanding of business analytics, and to enhance their thinking and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Transforming Customer Experiences
industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives in either B2C or B2B...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Opening-the-Valve--From-S/an/415015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-016 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B) The (B) case provides significant detail on Valve's initial decisions but keeps the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Article
To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law
By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate...
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Personalized Law;
Regulation;
Regulatory Avoidance;
Regulatory Arbitrage;
Law And Economics;
Law And Technology;
Law And Artificial Intelligence;
Futurism;
Moral Hazard;
Elicitation;
Signaling;
Privacy;
Law;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Technology;
AI and Machine Learning
Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, and Scott Duke Kominers. "To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law." Art. 2. William & Mary Law Review 62, no. 3 (2021).
- 22 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Competing Ad Auctions
- 06 Apr 2022
- News
Five Principles of Purposeful Leadership
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
are more central are having a bigger impact—the innovation they produce is more successful in the marketplace,” Nagle says. Patents from those firms also tend to be more frequently cited by other patents. Implications for managers The View Details
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by Ben Rand
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
large-scale adoption.” Yet while crypto investors might have a higher risk tolerance than more typical investors, in many ways they’re more mainstream than some might imagine, Di Maggio says. Crypto investors, he says, make decisions...
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by Ben Rand
- October 14, 2019
- Article
The CEO's Guide to Retirement
By: Bill George
Some CEOs remain in the role too long, hurting investors, employees, and their own legacy. The author sees a frequent reason for that: CEOs don’t know how to identify the optimal time to retire, and they procrastinate because they can’t imagine what they will do after...
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George, Bill. "The CEO's Guide to Retirement." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 64–68.
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
rely on the authority figures they already know and trust even more than usual. And remote work means that a direct manager may be an employee’s only real point of contact with the organization. One question should be regularly asked at...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 06 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries