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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
both longs and shorts following losses and a weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By differentiating between position level, portfolio level, and aggregate cross-portfolio losses in currency investments, we demonstrate that this dynamic loss aversion spans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War
is to balance different perspectives and not limited to "neutral" sources. We encourage you to engage with multiple sources and perspectives through this list and beyond. These resources have been selected by Baker... View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
MHS, FACS, FRCSC, Mary Witkowski, MD, MBA This article describes the challenges and solutions in determining whether a patient’s treatment has been successful. Such an assessment depends on multiple factors, including the patient’s... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
data to recognize trends and inform business decisions in the movie industry. Show Hide Details Modules Describing and Summarizing Data Sampling and Estimation Hypothesis Testing Single Variable Linear Regression Multiple Regression... View Details
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
led to chaos or harm. It required extreme teaming. Facing the unprecedented nature of the disaster, multiple temporary, constantly shifting groups of people working separately on different types of problems, and coordinating across... View Details
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
Using multiple cloud providers ensures that they can always switch to the lowest cost option.” Andy Wu (@AndyWuAndyWu), an assistant professor who studies how technology entrepreneurs use resources to expand their businesses. Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
chart images are available for download. Visit the ICCP website Social Progress Index The Social Progress Index is a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress motivated by the belief that to truly advance... View Details
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services
write one command over multiple lines) The STATATMP expression before the Stata command (in whatever form) will specify both a user-specific and jobID-specific folder on the /export/scratch volume. Then the script in step #1 will run at... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
University. Suraj Srinivasan : Recipient of a Management Science Distinguished Service Award in 2019. 2018 Dennis Campbell : Winner of the 2018 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award for "Testing Strategy with Multiple... View Details
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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support their social impact career pathways. These programs cross multiple sectors and provide the opportunity to tailor one's engagement based on individual... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
deliberate—and therefore not always easy to eliminate. “There’s not one silver bullet,” says Feldberg. “In reality, companies need to approach these issues from multiple angles and be persistent in and consistently monitor their efforts.”... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to encourage employees to learn View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 2021
- Working Paper
'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback
By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder and Francesca Gino
People often avoid giving feedback to others even when it would help fix a problem immediately. Indeed, in a pilot field study (N=155), only 2.6% of individuals provided feedback to survey administrators that the administrators had food or marker on their faces.... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Helping; Prosocial Behavior; Relationships; Social Psychology; Theory; Perception
Abi-Esber, Nicole, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder, and Francesca Gino. "'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-009, August 2021.
- 2018
- Book
American Capitalism: New Histories
By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Christine Desan, eds. American Capitalism: New Histories. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
- September–October 2016
- Article
Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation
By: Sebastian Raisch and Michael Tushman
Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies create exploratory businesses, but says little about how they subsequently scale these businesses. The strategy literature uses real option... View Details
Keywords: Ambidexterity; Comparative Case Study; Corporate Venturing; Exploration; Organization Design; Real Option Theory; Organizational Design; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship
Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman. "Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation." Organization Science 27, no. 5 (September–October 2016).
- March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman
The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Performance Capacity; Diversification; Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., and Robert S. Huckman. "Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-120, April 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- 2008
- Case
Great Negotiator Case Study Package
By: James K. Sebenius, Jeswald Salacuse, Daniel Curran, Rebecca Hulse and Kristin Schneeman
This special curriculum package includes the following case studies in the Great Negotiator Case Study Series, each of which features a past recipient of PON's Great Negotiator Award:
- 2000 PON Great Negotiator: "To Hell with the Future, Let's Get... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
threats,” the report said. But there’s no question that the organization has successfully prevented multiple attacks since 9/11. The FBI has posted a 10-year list of highlights titled Major Terrorism Preventions, Disruptions, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel