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    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry

      V.G. Narayanan

      Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
      • 31 Mar 2022
      • HBS Seminar

      John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton

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      Class Profile - Doctoral

      Undergraduate Majors* Accounting Applied Mathematics Biology Business Computer Science Decision Sciences Economics Engineering Finance Government History Information Systems Law Mathematics Operations Philosophy Physics Psychology... View Details
      • 07 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

      • 09 May 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

      But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • March 2008
      • Article

      Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

      By: Alvin E. Roth
      The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
      Keywords: History; Market Design; Labor; System; Practice; Performance; Theory; Boston; New York (city, NY)
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      • 17 Dec 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

      is the engine of organizational learning," says Edmondson. From Theory To Practice In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one. Real-world examples drawn from her... View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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      A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      patterns of organizations as systems and human beings with sentiments and connections? As Fritz Roethlisberger later revealed in his autobiography, his aim, as well as that of Elton Mayo and others working in the organizations group at... View Details
      • 07 Apr 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

      Historically, the idea was that multinational firms were looking at after-tax rates of return around the world and choosing to invest their capital eitherat home or abroad up to the point that those returns were equalized. If you believe that, economic View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2010
      • Article

      How Firms Respond to Being Rated

      By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
      While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms... View Details
      Keywords: System; Information; Decisions; Cost; Opportunities; Performance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economics; Theory; System Shocks; Rank and Position
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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

      • 25 Jul 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

      fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • April 27, 2022
      • Article

      Inequality in Researchers' Minds: Four Guiding Questions for Studying Subjective Perceptions of Economic Inequality

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shai Davidai, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Barnabas Szaszi, Martin Day, Stephanie Tepper, L. Taylor Phillips, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva and Oliver P. Hauser
      Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health metrics, and societal well-being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on how to best operationalize and measure these perceptions may impede progress on... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Perception; Analysis
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      • 17 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 17, 2006

        Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

      sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship... View Details
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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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      Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      at Princeton University. He then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of Economics. His research approach—applying economic theory and competition thinking to complex... View Details
      • 09 Dec 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Unilever—A Case Study

      free-market economy, and proclivity toward trade protectionism, the United States has always been a major host economy for foreign firms. It has certainly been the world's largest host since the 1970s, and probably was before 1914 also. 6 Given that most View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
      • Aug 2017
      • Conference Presentation

      To Highlight or Downplay Differences? A Threat-Matching Model for Crafting Diversity Approaches

      By: J. Lees and E. Apfelbaum
      We integrate organizational and psychological scholarship to devise the threat matching model, a contingency theory that illustrates when, how, and which diversity approaches—frameworks leaders provide employees to understand and respond to diversity—promote... View Details
      Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Inclusion; Diversity; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Leadership
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