Publications

2016
Working Paper

Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich

Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference. However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Economics

1996
Book

The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation

By: G. P. Pisano

Keywords: Business Processes; Innovation and Management

Purchase

2000
Chapter

Value Creation and Process Management: Evidence from Retail Banking

By: Frances X. Frei and Patrick T. Harker

Keywords: Value Creation; Business Processes; Business or Company Management; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry

Research Summary

Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

1992
Chapter

Thinking Coalitionally: Party Arithmetic, Process Opportunism, and Strategic Sequencing

By: James K. Sebenius and David Lax

Keywords: Alliances; Negotiation Process; Mathematical Methods; Strategy

1980
Chapter

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Design; Knowledge Use and Leverage

March 1995
Case

Procter & Gamble: Improving Consumer Value Through Process Redesign

The evolution of Procter & Gamble's development of efficient consumer response (ECR) involved a series of trials, a resolve to distribute diapers on the basis of product movement, a conscious effort to move to a new means of distribution across all lines, a first cut... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Products Industry

Educators

Purchase

November 1991
Article

A Process Control Methodology Applied to Manufacturing GaAs MMICs

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Peter Moran, Scott Andrew Elliott, Neil Wylie and Jesus del Alamo

Keywords: Production; Manufacturing Industry

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: R. Gulati, T. Khanna and N. Nohria

Keywords: Alliances

Purchase

January 2006
Article

The Ongoing Process of Building a Theory of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Theory; Disruption

1993
Book

Managing New Product and Process Development: Text and Cases

By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Management; Product Development

1999
Working Paper

Value Creation and Process Management: Evidence from Retail Banking

By: Frances X. Frei and Patrick T. Harker

1998
Chapter

Reengineering Channel Reordering Processes to Improve Total Supply-Chain Performance

By: J. Hammond and Theodore H. Clark

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Distribution Channels; Management Practices and Processes

November 2007
Article

The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas

We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community