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      Managing sustainability in supply chains

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details
      Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California
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      Managing the Operating Role of Customers

      By: Frances X. Frei
      Customers in operating roles introduce considerable variability into the production environment including differences in the demands they impose on the environment and the unpredictability of those demands. When customers are the source of production variability, the... View Details
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      Market Design Under Weak Institutions

      By: Benjamin N. Roth
      As market designers begin to address economic inequality, we will necessarily also begin to engage marginalized populations who have so far not been served well by the markets in which they participate. We will need new market designs for participants who may not... View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Equality and Inequality; Trust; Emerging Markets
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      Roth, Benjamin N. "Market Design Under Weak Institutions." In More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, edited by Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
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      Mastering Strategy Execution

      By: Robert Simons

      Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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      MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

      The  words  “business  model”  are  inescapable  in  our  daily  fare of  business  news.  These  two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

      Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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      MBA Required Curriculum—Strategy

      By: Benjamin C. Esty

      The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

      • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
      • How to generate superior... View Details
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      MBA Required Curriculum-- Strategy Course

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

      The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

      • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
      • How to generate superior value for customers... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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      Measurement and Effects of Bank Exit Policies

      By: Daniel Green and Boris Vallée
      We study whether exit policies by financial institutions have financial and real consequences on the firms they target, using bank coal exit policies as a laboratory. In contrast to theories assuming high capital substitutability, we find large effects of these... View Details
      Keywords: Coal Power; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Policy; Energy Industry
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      Green, Daniel, and Boris Vallée. "Measurement and Effects of Bank Exit Policies." Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).
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      Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

      By: Michelle A. Kinch and Ryan W. Buell
      Prior research in social psychology has shown that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are increasingly deploying self-service... View Details
      Keywords: Anxiety; Self-service; Empirical Operations; Behavioral Operations; Communication Technology; Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trust; Satisfaction; Financial Services Industry
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      Kinch, Michelle A., and Ryan W. Buell. "Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 31, 2025.)
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      Multinational Enterprises and Corporate Responsibility

      By: Nien-he Hsieh

      Multinational enterprises, especially those operating in developing economies, face wide-ranging demands to help persons whose basic needs are unmet. Pharmaceutical companies, for example, are asked to provide access to life-saving therapies to patients in countries... View Details

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      Nonprofits and the Net

      By: James E. Austin
      This research examined the strategic use of the internet by existing nonprofit organizations and the creation of new internet based organizations that are operating in the social sector, particularly in the philanthropic segment. Resulting publications: 'The... View Details
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      Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

      By: Ryan Raffaelli and Ryann Noe
      This study reveals how incumbent actors leverage physical place as source of differentiation in response to the threat of digital commoditization. Through a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the U.S. independent bookselling industry from 1995 to 2019, we outline... View Details
      Keywords: Retail; Place Making; Bookstores; Industry Evolution; Digital; Commoditization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Distribution Channels; Civil Society or Community; Value Creation; Retail Industry
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      Raffaelli, Ryan, and Ryann Noe. "Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores." Administrative Science Quarterly (in press). (Pre-published online May 3, 2025.)
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      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      I created and teach a course called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC). It is designed to be a capstone course in the Elective Curriculum (EC or second year of the MBA program) that integrates and further develops concepts developed in several Required Curriculum (RC... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Finance; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Financial Management
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      By: Willy C. Shih
      Professor Shih has taught the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course and FIELD Global Immersion in the first-year MBA required curriculum. He also has taught Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) in the second-year MBA curriculum, as well as... View Details
      Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Operations Management; Operations Strategy; Globalization Of Supply Chain; Competitiveness; Globalization; Trade; Operations; Manufacturing Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; China; Europe; Japan
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      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Professor Toffel teaches the required first-year MBA course Technology and Operations Management (TOM).

      He also coordinates and teaches the Doctoral Seminar in Technology and Operations Management to help... View Details

      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Government Legislation; Non-Governmental Organizations; Multinational Firms and Management
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      By: Rob Markey

      Managing Service Operations - MBA Elective Curriculum

      World-class service organizations deeply understand the needs and behaviors of their customers, and design, manage, and improve their operating models accordingly. This course... View Details

      Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Customer Centric Initiative; Customer Engagement; Service Management; Service Profit Chain; Service Design; Service Models; Service Excellence; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Service Delivery; Service Operations
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      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      Course Requirements

      Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

      Career Focus

      For... View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Healthcare Innovation; Healthcare Costs; Healthcare Operations; Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Startups; Healthcare Technology; Healthcare Ventures
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      By: Willy C. Shih
      Willy's research interests reflect the 28 years he spent in industry, during which he logged many questions on firm performance, relative competitiveness, and firm culture as an impediment to change. His primary interests today are in the drivers of industrial... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Competitiveness; Competitive Dynamics; Supply Chains; Production; Operations; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Asia; Europe
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      By: Ryan W. Buell
      From creating flight itineraries online, to interacting with tellers to complete complex banking transactions, to engaging with the government to address civic problems, customers are playing an increasingly vital role in the performance of operations in a broadening... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Retention; Customer Behavior; Operational Transparency; Customer Compatibility; Engagement; Customers; Decision Making; Design; Management; Operations; Quality; Relationships; Social Psychology; Technology; Value; Banking Industry; Service Industry; Travel Industry; Web Services Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      By: Tatiana Sandino
      In studying management control systems, Professor Sandino aims to understand how different control mechanisms can help lead employees within an organization to achieve common goals. Her work builds on contingency theory by exploring environmental, strategic, and... View Details
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