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July 1998
Teaching Note

Hawthorne Plastics, Inc. TN

By: Paul W. Marshall, John S. Hammond and William L Berry

Teaching Note for (9-171-004). View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Cost; Quality; Theory; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions

March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
Case

Lehigh Steel

By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue

Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Product; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Steel Industry

1998
Working Paper

Limited Liability and the Birth of American Industry: Theory Meets History

By: David A. Moss

1998
Chapter

Can Negotiators Outperform Game Theory?

By: M. H. Bazerman, R. Gibbons, L. Thompson and K. L. McGinn

Keywords: Negotiation Participants; Game Theory; Performance

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1998
Article

Innovation Action Research: Creating New Management Theory and Practice

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Research; Management; Theory; Practice

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November 1997 (Revised May 2002)
Case

MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kirk A. Goldman

MicroAge, Inc. started as a storefront in Tempe, AZ in 1976 selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. During their first year of operation, founders Jeff McKeever and Alan Hald sold $1.5 million worth of computer kits, priced at under $1,000 each. Twenty years... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Growth Management; Risk Management; Product; Opportunities; Horizontal Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Arizona

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Article

Personal Investing: Advice, Theory, and Evidence

By: Z. Bodie and D. B. Crane

Keywords: Investment; Theory

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fall 1997
Article

Motivating Creativity in Organizations: On Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do

By: T. M. Amabile

Creativity in all fields, including business, flourishes under intrinsic motivation- the drive to do something because it is interesting, involving, exciting, satisfying, or personally challenging. This article presents the Componential Theory of Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture

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September 1997
Article

The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out

By: Bruno S. Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Keywords: Cost; Motivation and Incentives; Theory

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28 May 1997
Lecture

From Principles to Practice: Narrowing the Ethics Gap." Speaker. "Executive Workshop

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Theory; Practice; Ethics

1997
Working Paper

Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice

By: David A. Thomas and Karen L. Proudford

26 Apr 1997
Keynote Speech

Ethics in Organizations: Theory v. Practice." Co-moderator. "The Harvard Program in Ethics and the Profressions, 10th Anniversary Event

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Organizations; Theory; Practice

April 1997
Article

Firm Asymmetries and Sequential R&D: Theory and Evidence from the Mainframe Computer Industry

By: T. Khanna and M. Iansiti

Keywords: Research and Development; Theory; Information; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Computer Industry

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1997
Chapter

On the Role of the Wiener Process in Finance Theory and Practice: The Case of Replicating Portfolios

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

26 Oct 1997 - 29 Oct 1997
Conference Presentation

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Towards a Contingent Theory of Network Effects

By: Ranjay Gulati

1996
Other Unpublished Work

Tradeoffs, Activity Systems, and the Theory of Competitive Strategy

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Strategy

October 1996
Article

Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby and M. Herron

We describe the development and validation of a new instrument, KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, designed to assess perceived stimulants and obstacles to creativity in organizational work environments. The KEYS scales have acceptable factor structures,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance; Research; Theory

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October 1996
Article

The Use of Covenants: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Partnership Agreements

By: Paul A. Gompers and J. Lerner

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Theory; Agreements and Arrangements

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September 1996
Article

Capital Market Imperfections and Countercyclical Markups: Theory and Evidence

By: Judith A. Chevalier and David S. Scharfstein

Keywords: Capital; Markets; Theory

14 Aug 1996
Keynote Speech

Business Ethics: From Principles to Practice - Closing the Ethics Gap." Seminar leader. "Executive Seminar sponsored by Universidad de San Andres, Department of Management

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Theory; Practice; Ethics

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