Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (5,948) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (5,948) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 100 of 5,948 Results →
  • Summer 2014
  • Article

Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
This paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Adaptation
Related
  • September – October 2009
  • Article

U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting

By: Max Bazerman
Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Climate Change; Energy Sources; Government and Politics; Cognition and Thinking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Non-Renewable Energy; Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; United States
Related
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods
Related
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Joint Venture

The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

places to open up shop; Alcácer says it's a mistake to allow low costs to completely override other factors. "You should not only think about whether there's a market there or cheaper labor," he says. "You also have to think about what your competitors... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    must discover the right design and identity through experimentation. Both design change and identity change require management attention, which is a limited resource. So changing both at once and quickly is hard. An organization’s design... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Loan Assistance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Financial Aid Office and the Social Enterprise Initiative. All determinations made by the School and the Selection Committee are final. The School and the Selection Committee reserve the right to restructure or discontinue the Program as... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2019
    • HBS Case

    Walmart's Workforce of the Future

    Walmart has even crossed over with the gig economy by partnering with platforms including DoorDash, Postmates, Uber, and Lyft for package and grocery delivery. ‘You’re the CEO of Walmart’ So, is Walmart making the right investments for... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 09 Nov 2023
    • News

    From the Brink

    Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
    Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
    • 05 Jul 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

    met. Knowledge sharing would seem to foster trust as well. Other research suggests that trust may be associated with managers who hire, recognize, and fire the right people. At an organizational level, an aversion to letting people go in... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Lawyers-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

    incorporation, founders' agreements, IP, and equity structures. LiRs can also point students in the right direction for resources on regulatory issues or other more complicated legal challenges. To schedule an appointment with a Lawyer in... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    In-Context Unlearning: Language Models as Few Shot Unlearners

    By: Martin Pawelczyk, Seth Neel and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    Machine unlearning, the study of efficiently removing the impact of specific training points on the trained model, has garnered increased attention of late, driven by the need to comply with privacy regulations like the Right to be Forgotten. Although unlearning is... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Copyright; Information
    Related
    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    Triadic Advocacy Work

    By: Summer R. Jackson and Katherine C. Kellogg
    Scholars of street-level bureaucracy and institutional research focus primarily on the relationships between advocates and their larger bureaucratic and social systems, assuming that advocates have little need to satisfy their beneficiaries. We find otherwise in our... View Details
    Keywords: Occupations And Professions; Ethnography; Power And Politics; Work And Organizations; Advocacy; Public Management; Justice
    Related
    • December 2019
    • Article

    It Helps to Ask: The Cumulative Benefits of Asking Follow-up Questions

    By: Michael Yeomans, Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
    In a recent article published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP; Huang, Yeomans, Brooks, Minson, & Gino, 2017), we reported the results of 2 experiments involving “getting acquainted” conversations among strangers and an observational field... View Details
    Keywords: Question-asking; Conversation; Communication; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication
    Related
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

    By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
    Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
    Related
    • January 2013 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
    In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
    Related
    • December 2005
    • Case

    IBM and Eclipse (A)

    IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
    Related

      Six Myths of Product Development

      Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details
      • 01 Nov 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

      exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson