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    Leonard A. Schlesinger

    Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

      Lynn S. Paine

      Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

      • 30 Oct 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: October 30, 2007

      multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        W. Earl Sasser

        Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

        Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
        • Research Summary

        A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

        • May 2000
        • Article

        Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
        This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
        Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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          Jeffrey F. Rayport

          Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

          • June 2013 (Revised November 2022)
          • Exercise

          Competition Simulator Exercise

          By: Eric J. Van den Steen
          In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the nine simulator exercises let students explore horizontal differentiation with and... View Details
          Keywords: Competition; Economics; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Mathematical Methods; Analysis
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          • 08 Nov 2016
          • First Look

          November 8, 2016

          quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            Clayton S. Rose

            Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

            Keywords: financial services
            • 2023
            • Working Paper

            Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature

            By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
            Our understanding of the firm’s role in society has evolved greatly over the past 70 years, with more recent years seeing a sharp rise in interest for how firms can contribute more than profits to society – that is, have a purpose beyond profits. Businesses engaged in... View Details
            Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges
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              Monique Burns Thompson

              Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

              • Teaching Interest

              Organizational Behavior

              Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details

              Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Motivation And Incentives; Decision-making; Culture

                W. Carl Kester

                Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

                Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
                • 20 Aug 2009
                • Working Paper Summaries

                A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

                Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman

                  Stephen A. Greyser

                  Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

                  Keywords: sports
                  • 10 May 2010
                  • Research & Ideas

                  What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

                  people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
                  Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

                    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
                    • March–April 2017
                    • Article

                    Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

                    By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
                    Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
                    Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
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                      Robert C. Merton

                      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

                      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

                      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services