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    Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

    This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box

    Keywords: by Magali A. Delmas & Michael W. Toffel
    • October 2024
    • Article

    Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).

    By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael Tushman
    We studied Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows platform in 2011 to induce new theory on the emotional dynamics of incumbent firms’ strategic decision making at platform transitions. We find that platform companies’ entry into an established industry activates a... View Details
    Keywords: Emotions; Technology Adoption; Corporate Strategy; Transition
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    • December 2012
    • Article

    Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts
    SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate the current fair value of goodwill to determine goodwill write-offs. In promulgating the standard, the FASB predicted managers will, on average, use the fair value estimates to convey private information on future cash flows. The... View Details
    Keywords: Goodwill Impairment; Fair-value Accounting; FASB; SFAS 142; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; Cash Flow; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives; Forecasting and Prediction; Goodwill Accounting
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    • 19 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice: The Case of Goodwill Impairment

    Keywords: by Francois Brochet & Kyle Welch; Accounting

      Ranjay Gulati

      Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
      • December 1998 (Revised July 2016)
      • Background Note

      Tools of Cooperation, The

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Howard H. Stevenson and Jeremy Dann
      Presents a theory about the tools a manager can use to get people to agree on a coordinated course of action and effect change in his or her organization. The extent to which people in the organization agree on the way the world works, and agree on what they want,... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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      • 19 Feb 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

      joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

        Jerry R. Green

        Jerry R. Green

        David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

        John Leverett Professor in the University

        Harvard University

         

        Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
        • 30 Oct 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: October 31, 2006

        international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

          Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software

            Robert S. Kaplan

            Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

            Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
            • March 1993
            • Background Note

            Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning

            By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
            Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
            Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry
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            • 1991
            • Book

            Multinational and International Banking

            By: G. Jones
            The essays in this volume explore the historical evolution of multinational and international banking. Contemporary studies, and most writers on the theory of multinational banking, focus on US data, yet historically European financial institutions were the leaders in... View Details
            Keywords: Banks and Banking; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Opportunities; Theory; Banking Industry; Europe; United States
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            • November 2018
            • Article

            Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research

            By: Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman and Jonathan E. Palmer
            The concept of disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in academic circles,... View Details
            Keywords: Innovation Metrics; Systemic Industries; Technology Trajectories; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; History; Competitive Strategy; Research
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              What is Disruptive Innovation?

              For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details

                Luis M. Viceira

                Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

                Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
                • June 2012
                • Article

                The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control

                By: Ethan S. Bernstein
                Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
                Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
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                • 13 Oct 2021
                • News

                A Transactional Approach to Power

                • April 2006
                • Module Note

                Asset Allocation: A Half-Course Module Note

                By: Luis M. Viceira
                Provides an overview of the main ideas and structure of a 15-session module on long-term asset allocation designed for MBA graduate students and investment professionals. This module is taught as part of a full-length, 30-session elective class on investment management... View Details
                Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Decisions; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Teaching; Theory
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