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Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.
Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in Madison, Wisconsin. Nick (AMP...
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
ethical component to compensation and, if so, does it matter? General David Petraeus, who holds a doctorate from Princeton, oversees wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is responsible for the lives of tens of...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
separating these two roles is vital for maintaining balance in the boardroom. Companies that fuse the roles of CEO and chairman collapse the governance triangle, undermining the system of checks and balances that is essential to View Details
- 2015
- Other Unpublished Work
Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?
By: Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna
In a capitalist system based on free markets, do managers have responsibilities to the system itself? If they do, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they engage in the political processes that structure the institutions of capitalism? The...
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Capitalism;
Lobbying;
Leadership;
Economic Systems;
Managerial Roles;
Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Karthik Ramanna. "Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?" Governance Studies, The Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, No. 20, Brookings Institution, 2015.
- 06 Apr 2018
- News
Share stories of failure to defang ‘malicious envy’ at work
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
advertising as well as other opportunities for multi-tasking while we await responses to our last click. Original Article We are witnessing a race to reduce the time required...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
worker shared a trick for keeping track of information customers share at the beginning of calls, reducing a source of stress. Another advised a colleague not to “unbundle” the price of features when...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Sabine Tejerina (MBA 2009) Cofounder and COO, Upstreet Concept: Launched in 2020, Upstreet makes it easier and more economical for companies to reward employees and customers with shares to improve engagement and...
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- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
easy to know who was on the team. It increased communication, follow-up, and the setting of mutual priorities, especially since the pod members were collectively responsible for getting the patients through...
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- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
change their dress codes and even their brand identities to accommodate religious garb? Can owners of small, private companies reject customers based on religious convictions? These tricky questions might...
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- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
managers of companies is a quick poll to identify what sorts of collaborative obstacles they may face in their organization and then we provide them with customized feedback.
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
(1979) and a DBA (1992), both from HBS. Stuart C. Gilson has been a member of the HBS faculty since 1991. His research focuses on how companies can create value by restructuring their assets, operations, and financial obligations in View Details
- 20 Apr 2018
- News
What if ordinary corporate innovation holds the key to success?
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in...
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- March 2013
- Article
Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities
By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
Geographic communities have been shown to affect organizations through their enduring features, but less attention has been given to communities as sites of human-made and natural events that occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop a...
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Geographic Communities;
Punctuated Equilibrium;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Institutional Theory;
Natural Disasters;
Situation or Environment;
Balance and Stability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
United States
Tilcsik, Andras, and Christopher Marquis. "Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities." Administrative Science Quarterly 58, no. 1 (March 2013): 111–148.
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans...
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by Robert Simons