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  • 27 Jan 2017
  • News

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    Levers of Control

    Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic... View Details
    • 2018
    • Book

    A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility

    By: Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Fragility; Economic Risk; Investor Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Financial Crisis; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Values and Beliefs; United States
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    • Research Summary

    The Power of Paradox: Some Recent Developments in Interactive Epistemology

    This survey describes a central paradox of game theory, viz. the Paradox of Backward Induction (BI). The paradox is that the BI outcome is often said to follow from basic game-theoretic principles--specifically, from the assumption that the players are rational. Yet,... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Managers' Use of Information

    William J. Bruns, Jr. is studying (with Sharon M. McKinnon of Northeastern University) managers' use of information in day-to-day and long-term management situations. The findings of this research-that managers develop and rely more heavily on personal information... View Details
    • May 1996 (Revised August 2001)
    • Case

    Timberland and Community Involvement

    By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
    The Timberland Co., a manufacturer and retailer of footwear, outdoor apparel, and accessories, committed itself to instituting and communicating a core set of values to its employees, stockholders, and consumers. The system of beliefs emphasized community service.... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise; Corporate Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • November 2002
    • Case

    Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network

    By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sven Volpel and Kerry Herman
    Describes the development of ShareNet, an innovative knowledge management system used by a division of Siemens. ShareNet attempts to capture the knowledge and experience of Siemen's many dispersed sales and marketing units around the globe, making it available to all.... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Investment Return; Revenue; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Sales
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    • 11 Dec 2017
    • News

    There’s a medical ‘land grab’ underway as hospitals try to get larger

    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

    By: Deborah M. Kolb and Kathleen L. McGinn
    Where do we start if we are interested in understanding how gender plays out in negotiations that take place within organizations? Do we start with women and men and explore their individual differences in thought, motivation, style, appetite for risk, and propensity... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Gender
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    • 11 Feb 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Brett Hollenbeck, University of California, Los Angeles

    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya

    By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
    Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral... View Details
    Keywords: Political Participation; Electoral Institutions; Field Experiment; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Trust; Kenya
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    • August 2021
    • Article

    Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya

    By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
    Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral... View Details
    Keywords: Political Participation; Electoral Institutions; Field Experiment; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Trust
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    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

    suggests that those messages may have an unintended consequence, making people believe that someone who isn’t succeeding isn’t bothering to try. And those perceptions can perpetuate inequality in society. "How do all of these lessons about working hard potentially... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
    • 28 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

    perceive the system to be illegitimate, the tendency is to demand justice through increased government intervention and policies," Di Tella observes. These three factors, taken together, create an unfriendly environment for... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 23 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Gad Allon, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

    • TeachingInterests

    Strategy Execution

    By: Dennis Campbell

    This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

    1.... 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
    • March 2016 (Revised April 2019)
    • Technical Note

    ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?

    By: George Serafeim
    In the past twenty-five years, the world had seen an exponential growth in the number of companies reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. Investor interest in ESG data also grew rapidly. A growing belief that increasing levels of social inequality... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Sustainability; Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Responsibilities To Society; Environment; Social Impact Investment; ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Economic Systems
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    • September 2011
    • Article

    Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

    By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
    Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
    Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 21 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

    Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider