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- 2008
- Working Paper
The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field
By: Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith and Ying Zhu
The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement. In many ways, the sciences of design defy disciplinary characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g. construction, analysis or... View Details
Purao, Sandeep, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith, and Ying Zhu. "The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-056, October 2008.
- 19 Mar 2018
- News
The Unintended Consequences Of Starting A Trade War With Mexico
Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects on... View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
outreach should be done on multiple platforms and carefully crafted to answer only one or two hypotheses. These hypotheses are commonly, “Is this where we can reach this audience if we want to market to them?” and “Are they interested... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
MBA Experience - Global
students to apply what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
chains. They enter upstream partnerships with public sector research institutions, and later form commercialization alliances with established, downstream firms. We examine the alliance activity in a large sample of biotechnology firms and find: (i) firms with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Forthcoming
- Article
Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and David Klinowski
Across multiple studies, we investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether the performance task is a cognitive test or a mock interview, whether the feedback is... View Details
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, and David Klinowski. "Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online August 7, 2024.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature
By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
Our understanding of the firm’s role in society has evolved greatly over the past 70 years, with more recent years seeing a sharp rise in interest for how firms can contribute more than profits to society – that is, have a purpose beyond profits. Businesses engaged in... View Details
Adelson, Caroline, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price, and Marco Iansiti. "Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-063, April 2023.
- November 2021
- Article
The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training
By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Byoung G. Park
This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model on agents’ behavior takes into account many of the key elements that... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Training; Behavior; Analysis
Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park. "The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training." Management Science 67, no. 11 (November 2021): 7046–7074.
- Article
Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks
By: Miao Cheng, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang and Po-Ling Loh
Crowdfunding is a recent financing phenomenon that is gaining wide popularity as a means for startups to raise seed funding for their companies. This paper presents our initial results at understanding this phenomenon using an exploratory data driven approach. We have... View Details
Cheng, Miao, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang, and Po-Ling Loh. "Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web 3rd (2016): 25–30.
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
taxes. I generalize the conventional model to incorporate multiple normative frameworks. I then show that if the principle of equal sacrifice-a classic, comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Program
Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
organizational challenges into opportunities for positive change. Emerging senior leaders who are searching to enhance their capabilities and capacity to work effectively with others. Attendance by multiple company representatives will... View Details
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
costs of additional investments with several alternative uses of those resources. By encouraging the consideration of multiple options, leaders may help themselves and others recognize how over-commitment to an existing project may be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
between 2000 and 2018, the researchers identify a “surge in racial animosity induced by the [Voting Rights Act]'' that persists over decades. “While the Act improved the conditions of Black Americans along multiple dimensions, it also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
As a result, health care has used a delivery model that had existed largely unchanged since the turn of the last century. As the science improved, multiple layers of organizational structure were added to the system without a meaningful... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
But it must first overcome key technological and developmental challenges. One of the most critical questions yet to be answered: Will it be an open and interoperable virtual world, similar to today’s internet, or will it be a closed 3D universe with one or View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive
Tamayo and his colleagues have moved on to studying other companies and industries in Latin America, including a carmaker, a fast-food restaurant, and a retailer. The best managers, they have found, identify talent and train workers to do View Details
- Web
Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project
questions, strategies for eliciting key insights, and ideas for organizing student responses visually on a blackboard. For some cases, more extensive supporting documents known as “teaching notes” are available to fully brief the instructor on the relevant history and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link
- December 2021
- Case
Green Monday
By: José B. Alvarez, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of David Yeung, from campaigning for plant-based diets to building Green Monday, a purpose-driven business and an ecosystem based in Hong Kong comprising a retail platform, an alternative meat brand (“OmniPork”), a... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
Alvarez, José B., Billy Chan, and Dawn H. Lau. "Green Monday." Harvard Business School Case 522-056, December 2021.