Publications

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2011
Book

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer

The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details

October 2019
Article

Adaptive Platform Trials: Definition, Design, Conduct and Reporting Considerations

By: Derek C. Angus, Brian M. Alexander, Scott Berry, Meredith Buxton, Roger Lewis, Melissa Paoloni, Steven A. R. Webb, Steven Arnold, Anna Barker, Donald A. Berry, Marc J. M. Bonten, Mary Brophy, Christopher Butler, Timothy F. Cloughesy, Lennie P. G. Derde, Laura J. Esserman, Ryan Ferguson, Louis Fiore, Sarah C. Gaffey, J. Michael Gaziano, Kathy Giusti, Herman Goossens, Stephane Heritier, Bradley Hyman, Michael Krams, Kay Larholt, Lisa M. LaVange, Philip Lavori, Andrew W. Lo, Alexander J. London, Victoria Manax, Colin McArthur, Genevieve O’Neill, Giovanni Parmigiani, Jane Perlmutter, Elizabeth A. Petzold, Craig Ritchie, Kathryn M. Rowan, Christopher W. Seymour, Nathan I. Shapiro, Diane M. Simeone, Bradley Smith, Bradley Spellberg, Ariel Dora Stern, Lorenzo Trippa, Mark Trusheim, Kert Viele, Patrick Y. Wen and Janet Woodcock

Researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and patients are increasingly interested in questions about therapeutic interventions that are difficult or costly to answer with traditional, free-standing, parallel-group randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Examples include... View Details

Keywords: Adaptive Platform Trials; Health Testing and Trials

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2008
Book

Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky

Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock,... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Housing; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; United States

July 1998
Supplement

Bell Atlantic in Union City

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; New Jersey

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Until recently, leadership was the elephant, and there were a lot of blind people identifying different parts," says Khurana. "What we tried to incorporate in the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice is how each different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

important person in the company,” and encourage associates to feel psychologically safe and willing to take reasonable risks. “Observing John, I realized that the best leaders also possess qualities that make great teachers,” says DeLong,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Fall 2021
Article

When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble

Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

expect to see fewer all-inclusive prices as a result. But the increasing practice of partitioning prices is noticeable even when the different elements of the offer are already gelled. That's what intrigued us most. Your cable monthly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

outside manager, the merchant should be clear on what practices the program will permit and to not assume outsourced managers will always act in the merchant's best interest. ("Quite the contrary, our data... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Proceedings of ICEC'09 (forthcoming). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Abstract Widely used online "trust"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Ewa Sletten; Accounting

Article

Robust and Stable Black Box Explanations

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Nino Arsov and Osbert Bastani

As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in real-world applications, there has been a growing interest in developing post hoc explanations that summarize the behaviors of these black boxes. However, existing algorithms for generating such... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Black Box Models; Framework

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20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

has supply chain management become such a hot topic in recent years? Shapiro: Changes in five factors are largely responsible for the increased attention. I'll quickly list them and then talk about each. Information technology Visibility of View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs of physicians practicing at the Harvard teaching... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Forthcoming
Article

Redemption Mechanisms in Poison Pills: Evidence on Pill Design and Law Firm Effects

By: Olivier Baum and Guhan Subramanian

We present the first evidence on the incidence of “trip wire” versus “last look” poison pills. Using a hand-collected data set of 130 poison pills implemented and/or amended between January 1, 2020 and March 31, 2023, we find that pills are almost evenly divided... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Negotiation Tactics; Contracts