Option Value Effect - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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5.1 Community Standards/Disciplinary Process | MBA

5.1 Community Standards/Disciplinary Process 5.0 Community Standards Process The MBA disciplinary process reflects and safeguards the HBS Community Values . It is designed to be fair and transparent to all students involved. MBA Program... View Details

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

otherwise healthy parent corporation can deter a manager from making the investment in the first place even if it is likely to have a positive net present value in expectation. As a result, the firm will suffer an opportunity cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):... View Details

Keywords: Technology

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we are less View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system—often because they saw an... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation

experiments are most effective when time matters most, cost is not an overriding factor, and developers expect to learn little that would guide them in planning the next round of experiments. Fail Early And Often, But Avoid Mistakes... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke

Profile

Gopesh Mittal

awakened a desire to work on products that “target the ‘bottom of the pyramid.’” Real value of soft skills Like many MBA candidates, Gopesh was attracted to Harvard for its “360-degree point of view, which would help me develop skills in... View Details

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 87-109. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract We explain the four basic ways to manage risk: prevention, risk shifting, risk spreading, and loss control. We set out five principles of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult to respond View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

successful T-shaped manager must learn to live with, and ultimately thrive within, the tension created by this dual responsibility. Although this tension is most acute for heads of business units, any T-shaped manager with operating unit obligations must wrestle with... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

"For several years, the cover of one conglomerate's annual report actually bore the legend '2+2=5' in large type under the company's name. They wanted you to believe that the firm's value was greater than the sum of its parts, that a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2004
News

Curb Your Overconfidence

bargaining weaknesses, and you’ll increase the odds of proposing an offer that is acceptable to the other side. Curb Your Overconfidence Overconfidence can make the best negotiators overestimate their chances of success — and underestimate the View Details

Keywords: HBS professor Max H. Bazerman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

situations. "We were value investors and were active throughout the economic cycle." Leadership made personal For Mina, getting an MBA was driven by both professional and personal motivations. "When you evaluate... View Details

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of the Washington Post and sports... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

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