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- January 2009
- Article
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Performance Improvement;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Management Science 55, no. 1 (January 2009): 85–100.
- 15 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations
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by Christine L. Exley
- 2023
- Working Paper
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences
By: Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller and Joel Stiebale
We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States
from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more
than 100 distinct product categories to estimate demand systems with flexible...
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Keywords:
Market Power;
Markups;
Demand Estimation;
Consumer Products;
Retailers;
Product;
Price;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior
Döpper, Hendrik, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller, and Joel Stiebale. "Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-025, October 2021. (Revised March 2023. Direct download.)
- 2003
- Chapter
The Role of Money in Monetary Policy Making
By: Klaus Masuch, Sergio Nicoletti Altimari, Huw Pill and Massimo Rostagno
Masuch, Klaus, Sergio Nicoletti Altimari, Huw Pill, and Massimo Rostagno. "The Role of Money in Monetary Policy Making." Chap. 8 in Background Studies for the ECB's Evaluation of Its Monetary Policy Strategy, edited by Otmar Issing, 187–228. Frankfurt: European Central Bank, 2003.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Role of Judgment in Global Climate Change
By: M. H. Bazerman, C. Buisseret and K. A. Wade-Benzoni
Bazerman, M. H., C. Buisseret, and K. A. Wade-Benzoni. "The Role of Judgment in Global Climate Change." In Global Climate Change, edited by A. Hoffman. Jossey-Bass, 1998.
- August 2016
- Article
The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences
By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Leslie K. John
Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic lake vacations and chic city vacations or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the...
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Keywords:
Perceived Similarity;
Prediction Error;
Preference Prediction;
Self-other Difference;
Social Inference;
Cognition and Thinking;
Perception;
Forecasting and Prediction
Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie K. John. "The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 53, no. 4 (August 2016): 597–607.
- February 2009 (Revised November 2016)
- Exercise
Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Projects;
Research and Development;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Cooperation;
Congo Basin
McGinn, Kathleen L., Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos." Harvard Business School Exercise 909-040, February 2009. (Revised November 2016.)
- 01 Jan 1977
- Conference Presentation
The Roles for Research and Development in Auditing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- 23 Apr 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis
- 30 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
- May 2002 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership
Explores the area of education and ways in which corporations have played a role in its improvement. Not intended to cover all examples of corporate involvement but, instead, to provide a sense of the range of ways that corporations have become involved, either...
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Keywords:
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Education Industry
Barrett, Diana, and Sheila McCarthy. "U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 302-087, May 2002. (Revised July 2002.)
- Research Summary
The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance and Finance
Dyck studies the role played by media in financial markets: in transmitting information about a company, in shaping the market response to the information they communicate, in exposing mis-governance problems, and in forcing companies to behave in "politically correct"...
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- 14 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Incentive Salience in Habit Formation
- Research Summary
Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity
Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource...
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- May–June 1999
- Article
Changing Leaders: The Board's Role in CEO Succession
By: J. W. Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana
Lorsch, J. W., and Rakesh Khurana. "Changing Leaders: The Board's Role in CEO Succession." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 3 (May–June 1999).
- Article
The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy
By: Matthew Joseph, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to...
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Joseph, Matthew, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy." Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 60th (2019).
- October 3, 2016
- Article
Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This article summarizes recent research on how immigrants contribute to the formation of U.S. start-ups and the traits of the businesses founded.
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 3, 2016).
- 19 Oct 2012
- Other Presentation
Building a Competitive Mexico: The Role of Business
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report...
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Porter, Michael E. "Building a Competitive Mexico: The Role of Business." COPARMEX National Annual Meeting 2012, Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (COPARMEX), Durango, Mexico, October 19, 2012.