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  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

  PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth opportunities Who Will... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research on international... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

services. A key tradeoff emerges between the need to motivate observable effort by professionals (best achieved by a MSP) and the need to coordinate decisions that generate spillovers across professionals (best achieved by a vertical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

and Marco Iansiti (both HBS) will focus on the theory and practice of responsible AI for facilitating data-driven decision-making in organizations. They will explore how people use AI tools and machine learning (ML) models in their... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

information content. The theory yields interesting results about the informational role of targeted advertising and its consequences. First, targeting can itself serve as a signal on product attributes. Second, the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

managers put into practice in the late 1980s and 1990s. Most recently, we have tried to develop a holistic view of how performance measurement and control systems function in the new economy. A considerable amount of new theory has come... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

competitive? What are the legal, ethical and social implications of the choices you make? We will use theory and evidence from economics, law, and psychology to understand what your best strategy is, and to anticipate how the labor market... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To understand better how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-034.pdf Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience Authors:Gregory M. Barron and Stephen Leider Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a View Details
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

behaviors associated with building social capital influence individuals' psychological experiences and work outcomes. August 2014 Child Development Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform By: Chaplin,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run impact on South Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

analysis. Then, you'll learn how to apply these tools in a variety of decision contexts, including securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and governance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman