Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

2015
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"Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal

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08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

put theory into practice and to further develop my understanding in areas I am passionate about. For example, last year I had the chance to coordinate a panel featuring senior leaders of the pandemic response from the UK, Nigeria, and... View Details

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Hitotsubashi University proposed to establish a new prize in appreciation of Professor Michael Porter's generosity and in support of his life-long dedication to the development of the theory and practice of competitive strategy. 2015... View Details

11 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Campbell, January/February 2005). 2004 Malcolm P. Baker : Nominated for the 2004 Brattle Prize for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Jeffrey Wurgler. "A Catering Theory of Dividends."... View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

decision theory in which we were advised to construct decision trees, mapping outcomes, attaching values to each one, and estimating probabilities that various combinations of outcomes might occur. Judgment entered into the construction... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton & Elizabeth W. Dunn

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2019. David B. Yoffie : Recognized as one of the Top Five Bestselling Case Authors (out of over 8,000 authors) for The Case Centre in 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19. 2018 Bharat N. Anand : Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal for the Best... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

Arthur Schleifer

Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; financial services; grocery; insurance industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; restaurant; retailing; software; tire; tobacco; wine

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

of mutuality, or "sponsoring members" that practice an ethic of contribution. But, as a practical matter, they can no longer choose ethical indifference as orthodox corporate theory has long maintained. Q: What about the global... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

age where it was possible to allow data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data being a big deal to becoming a big hype. As is usually the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus United. In the public eye, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International Institute of Analytics, addresses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

and more intricate concepts such as wave-particle duality, wave functions, the superposition principle, quantum tunneling, the quantum harmonic oscillator, the Dirac equation, and Feynman diagrams. It also covers the physics of the Higgs boson and provides a glimpse... View Details

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