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fall 1995
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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

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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

human condition-as well as our approach to leadership, strategy, negotiation and policy. More specifically, we will: Draw lessons for leadership, strategy, negotiation, and policy from cases where decision making occurs in contexts... View Details

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

developed an influential body of work about justice, starting from the premise that ignorance might just be bliss. His theories were designed to consider a monumental, if esoteric, question: If you were in charge of the world and had to... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

July 2014
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Accounting for Crises

By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu

We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis

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29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

Employee theft and fraud: $600 billion. "The costs to business and society are striking," she said. Gino, an associate professor and behavioral economist at HBS, studies ethical decision making and the psychology of moral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

07 Dec 2011
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Are Creative People More Dishonest?

something about the creative process that triggers dishonest behavior. Specifically, we decided to explore the idea that enhancing the motivation to think outside the box can drive individuals toward more dishonest decisions when facing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2018
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'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

Their results appear in the August 2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many organizations have a bias toward solving sticky problems through collaboration, either in person or virtually. The more eyes on a problem, the View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

28 Jul 2014
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Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

leaders often fail to notice when their decisions indirectly hurt people—and how people often fail to hold organizations accountable for indirectly causing harm. book excerpt Failing To Notice Indirect Actions From The Power of Noticing:... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

an executive officer of a for-profit corporation? Is it the same standard you use when making decisions in your personal life? If not, how does it differ and why?" The board should ask candidates to describe situations in which they... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

theory of value, the allocation of decision rights, performance measurement, stakeholders, and compensation. Students bring their cumulative understanding of organizations to the final part of the course,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2014
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centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter measure would lead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
News

Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

has provided strong endorsement: "Boards should require that all directors submit a resignation as a matter of course upon retirement, a change in employer, or other significant change in their professional roles and responsibilities." The question is, why? If the... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

Doctoral candidate Dafna Bearson’s (she/her) interests lie at the intersection of technology, human capital, and business strategy. “How do businesses adjust in the face of new technologies? Why might similar businesses make different deployment decisions? How do their... View Details

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

development of theory regarding strategic planning coupled with the proliferation of courses on the subject, are we sending the right signals to managers in training? Or should we just admit that formal training only begins to prepare... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2016
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Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in hiring decisions by at least 25... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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