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- 22 Apr 2015
- HBS Seminar
Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering
- Research Summary
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I study how people collaborate with each other as they define, change, and solve problems while working on creativity and innovation projects in organizations.
Conference Proceedings:
Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
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Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
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Investors as Stewards of the Commons?
By: George Serafeim
Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Industry Self-regulation; Sustainability; ESG; Capital Markets; Investor Behavior; Investment Activism; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Cooperation
Serafeim, George. "Investors as Stewards of the Commons?" Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 30, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 8–17.
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
pit competing theories against one another in many cases, and try to argue that one explanation outperforms the others. The Everest case suggests that both of these approaches may lead to erroneous conclusions and reduce our capability to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on previous theory and research, we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a... View Details
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Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
statements and accounting reports. Familiarity with how modern accounting and control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions and making organizational decisions. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 01 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
Dutch Leonard
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
In a famous scene from the film "Jerry Maguire," NFL wide receiver Rod Tidwell repeatedly screams, "Show me the money!" as his agent listens on the other end of the telephone. Intuition might tell us that showing the money motivates, and that increasing an employee's... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
Eric J. Van den Steen
Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron.
Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details
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U.S. Competitiveness
Re: Michael Porter 22 Jan 2021 Fast Company The 14 most important books for designers to read right now Re: Michael Porter 19 Jan 2021 USA Today Big businesses say they are responsible, but too often they fuel conspiracy theories By:... View Details
- January 2010
- Article
The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy
By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Outcome or Result; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias
Barron, Greg, and Stephen Leider. "The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy." Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (January 2010).
- 10 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method
theory to life and makes it relevant. Throughout my time so far at HBS, I have fine-tuned my approach to make the most out of case study learning. Here are eight tips that I hope will be as helpful to you as they have been to me. ... View Details
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
James K. Sebenius
JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details
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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
developments in physiological and psychopathological studies, the French Sociological School, anthropological studies, and the theories of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Mayo also formed a close partnership and friendship with L. J.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
treatment. “In theory they never have to ask another donor for a dollar. And I said, ‘I know what that looks like. Investing in promising early stage projects and having a small financial stake in the outcome: That’s venture capital,’ ”... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- February 2015
- Article
Location Choices under Strategic Interactions
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Dezso, and Minyuan Zhao. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 197–215.
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
Giacomin, Valeria. "A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-018, August 2017.