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Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and Teach Management Theory

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Paul R. Carlile
Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience suggests exactly the opposite-that case studies can unite the development of theory with the teaching of it in a single... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Cases; Research; Theory
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  • November 2024
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On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout

By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Prominent theory research on voting analyzes a variety of models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many... View Details
Keywords: Voting Behavior; Voting Turnout; Paradox Of Voting; Pivotality; Elections; Model; Theory; Governance Transparency; Government; Democracy; Turnout; Voting; Governance; Government and Politics; Public Sector; Political Elections
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  • 2016
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Recursive Mentalizing and Common Knowledge in the Bystander Effect

By: Kyle A. Thomas, Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli and Steven Pinker
The more potential helpers there are, the less likely any individual is to help. A traditional explanation for this bystander effect is that responsibility diffuses across the multiple bystanders, diluting the responsibility of each. We investigate an... View Details
Keywords: Bystander Effect; Diffusion Of Responsibility; Volunteer's Dilemma; Common Knowledge; Theory Of Mind; Behavior; Theory
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  • March 2013
  • Book Review

Book Review of 'From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy' by Robin Boadway

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Anomalies in Estimates of Cross-Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test

By: Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt and Alvin J. Silk
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  • 1980
  • Other Unpublished Work

Inventive Plans Related to Rawls' Theory of Justice - HBS Discussion Paper

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Distribution; Ethics
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  • Web

Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research View Details
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Quality; Groups and Teams; Human Needs; Poverty; Welfare or Wellbeing; Public Administration Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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  • October 2017
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Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • 1990
  • Other Unpublished Work

The High Price of Land and the Low Cost of Capital: Theory and Evidence from Japan

By: David S. Scharfstein, Anil Kashyap and David Weil
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Japan
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  • 2005
  • Working Paper

The Curse of Innovation: A Theory of Why Innovative New Products Fail in the Marketplace

By: John Gourville
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    The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

    We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such... View Details
    • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and William Powley
    This case examines the intersection of two firms (Cogent Labs—a machine learning software firm in Tokyo; and Google, the technology infrastructure giant) attempting to exploit the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial services... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Applications and Software; Infrastructure; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2015
    • Conference Presentation

    The Strategic Bystander: Recursive Theory of Mind and Common Knowledge in Decisions to Help

    By: J. De Freitas, K. A. Thomas, P. DeScioli and S. Pinker
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    • 2011
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    Incentive Compensation and the Likelihood of Termination: Theory and Evidence from Real Estate Organizations

    By: Christopher Parsons, G. Hallman and J. Hartzell
    We analyze two managerial compensation incentive devices: the threat of termination and pay for performance. We first develop a simple model predicting that these devices are substitutes: when termination incentives are low, optimal contracts provide stronger... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Real Estate Industry
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    • 20 Dec 2021
    • News

    Psychological Safety in Theory and In Practice

    • December 2022
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    Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman
    There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have different understandings of passion that potentially conflict. More specifically, we argue that... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Capital; Performance Effectiveness; Management Style
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    • Mar 2020
    • Conference Presentation

    A New Analysis of Differential Privacy's Generalization Guarantees

    By: Christopher Jung, Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Moshe Shenfeld
    We give a new proof of the "transfer theorem" underlying adaptive data analysis: that any mechanism for answering adaptively chosen statistical queries that is differentially private and sample-accurate is also accurate out-of-sample. Our new proof is elementary and... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Transfer Theorem; Mathematical Methods
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    • September 2004
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    Relative Explanatory Power of Agency Theory and Transaction Cost Analysis in German Salesforces

    By: Manfred Krafft, Sönke Albers and Rajiv Lal
    Keywords: Theory; Cost; Sales; Employees; Germany
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