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  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

demonstrates a more holistic approach to learning from large-scale organizational failures. It suggests that we cannot think about individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis in isolation.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

    Eric J. Van den Steen

    Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

    Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

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    Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    statements and accounting reports. Familiarity with how modern accounting and control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions and making organizational decisions. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND... View Details
    • 03 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 3

    Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Emerald Press, forthcoming Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 09 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

    Keywords: by Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene & Max H. Bazerman
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership

    By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
    In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety; Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Practice; Gender; Business Processes; Energy Industry
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    • 17 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 17

    and limited to a short window of time. Consistent with theories of status, however, the effect of the prize is significantly larger when there is uncertainty about scientist and article quality. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    For Alumni - Doctoral

    For Alumni For Alumni HBS is recognized as a leader in educating faculty—renowned researchers and educators who are firmly grounded in both theory and practice—for business schools and universities across the country and around the... View Details
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    Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

    currently cover only forever chemicals in... April 2025 Teaching Material What IKEA Do We Want? By: Juan Alcácer Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-429. 2025 Working Paper Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

    By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
    We develop a framework for assessing when somebody will eventually notice that she has a misspecified model of the world, premised on the idea that she neglects information that she deems—through the lens of her misconceptions—to be irrelevant. In doing so, we... View Details
    Keywords: Attentional Stability; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Information; Theory
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    • 13 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 13

      PublicationsDriven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership Author:Paul R. Lawrence Publication:Jossey-Bass, forthcoming (2010) Abstract The author applies the four drive theory of human behavior (to acquire, to defend, to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    developments in physiological and psychopathological studies, the French Sociological School, anthropological studies, and the theories of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Mayo also formed a close partnership and friendship with L. J.... View Details
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details
    • 08 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 8, 2015

    that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Feb 2020
    • Book

    Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

    says Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. “So there’s this organizational silence, where no one feels comfortable speaking truth to power.” Avoiding a cynical organization This silence is not only a... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on previous theory and research, we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a... View Details
    • 04 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

    clustering also seemed to inhibit the breadth and number of answers that the players proposed. The least-connected networks came up with 17.5 percent more theories and solutions than did the most-connected networks. Less clustering also... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
    • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

    Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Seattle
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      Rajiv Lal

      Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details