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  • 07 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Davide Malacrino, International Monetary Fund

    Matthew Rabin

    Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

    Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

    • Program

    Advanced Management Program

    Although the Advanced Management Program has no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Read More The Application Process HBS seeks... View Details
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    Program for Leadership Development

    Program for Leadership Development has no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. The Application Process We select applicants who... View Details
    • Research Summary

    What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Testing the Legal Bonding Hypothesis

    On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal... View Details
    Keywords: Securities Litigation; Corporate Governance
    • May 2017
    • Article

    Sacred versus Pseudo-sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs

    By: Philip E. Tetlock, Barbara A. Mellers and J. Peter Scoblic
    Psychologists have documented widespread public deference to "sacred values" that communities, formally or informally, exempt from tradeoffs with secular limits, like money. This work has, however, been largely confined to low-stakes settings. As the stakes rise,... View Details
    Keywords: Tradeoffs; Values and Beliefs; Civil Society or Community
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    • August 2017
    • Article

    The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

    By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
    We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a formal theory where founders may have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Entrepreneurship; Equity
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    • January 2014 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Filene's Basement: Inside a Fired Customer's Relationship

    By: Jill Avery and Susan Fournier
    How, in a business climate in which building relationships with customers has dominated both managerial thought and marketing budgets, could Filene's Basement have fired a loyal customer, one who was formally and informally recognized as a best customer? This case... View Details
    Keywords: CRM; Retailing; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 01 Apr 2008
    • News

    The Leader Within

    • Research Summary

    Quality in Service Operations

    Rogelio Oliva is interested in understanding how the operational characteristics of service delivery processes interact with human resource and marketing policies to determine the long term productivity, quality, and profitability of a service operation. Specifically,... View Details
    • September–October 2024
    • Article

    The Art of Leading Teammates

    By: Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria
    When our society talks about leaders, we focus on formal roles, such as the CEO. This view undervalues the role of informal leaders—team members who influence outcomes by the tone they set, how they conduct themselves, and how they interact with their peers. Their job... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Leadership; Status and Position
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    • September 2014
    • Article

    OSHA Inspections Should Be Welcome: Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California

    By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
    For companies with strong internal occupational safety and health auditing programs, OSHA inspections might seem a formality that risk uncovering, at most, nitpicky deviations from the thousands of pages of safety regulations. For those with poor safety practices, OSHA... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Operations; Safety; Governance Compliance; United States; California
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical patent citations, I show that independents supplied high quality innovations to a... View Details
    Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Urban Scope; Independent Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; United States
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    • 14 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory

    Keywords: by Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan D. MacCormack & John Rusnak; Video Game; Web Services
    • May 2022
    • Case

    Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models

    By: Tsedal Neeley and Stefani Ruper
    Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that she accepted your resignation.” Heart... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Employment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technological Innovation
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages

    By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Areendam Chanda and Selin Sayek
    Do multinational companies generate positive externalities for the host country? The evidence so far is mixed varying from beneficial to detrimental effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth, with many studies that find no effect. In order to provide an... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Markets; Value; Stock Shares; Development Economics
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    • May 2000 (Revised September 2000)
    • Exercise

    Tyrell Web Developers Inc. (A)

    By: Alan D. MacCormack and Andrew P. McAfee
    An integrated exercise culminating in a team project to design and develop a Web site for a fictitious company. Allows instructors to establish a technical baseline for students prior to starting the team project. Students are asked to develop a personal web site which... View Details
    Keywords: Web Sites; Software; Product Development; Design; Internet
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    • 07 Jul 2010
    • News

    Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award

    • Research Summary

    Building Bridges: The Social Structure of Interdependent Innovation

    Multidivisional firms often fail to take advantage of innovations that involve combining resources from distinct divisions. This failure of cross-line-of-business innovation is a consequence of design choices employed to execute the firm’s strategy: in organizing... View Details
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    General Management Program

    encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although the General Management Program has no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Read... View Details