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2011
Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States

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2008
Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago

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23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

features are more associated with the visual aspect of charisma than others. “Our research represents the first empirical attempt to characterize the relationships between charisma and facial features,” explains Zhang. She conducted the study with Xiaohang Feng, a... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

University of California at Berkeley; Zachariah S. Sharek, Carnegie Mellon University; and Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School. "Across all our studies, the results suggest that experts take high performance as evidence of high... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

has been thin. Do shoppers prefer them? Do sales increase when companies bundle their offerings? Or, would a bundle cannibalize sales from its existing products leading to lower overall revenues? To help answer these questions, Kumar teamed with Timothy Derdenger of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

Babcock of Carnegie Mellon University, we analyzed differences between men's and women's starting salaries in a graduating class of MBA students at a top business school. In low-ambiguity industries (as rated by career-services experts),... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Post-Crisis World, Carnegie Mellon/Atlantic Council, Pittsburgh: 2009. Baldwin, R. 2003. "Openness and Growth: What's the Empirical Relationship." NBER Working Paper No. 9578, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

Bennis and O'Toole trace origins of the argument back many years, but point especially to two studies in 1959 supported by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations. These studies suggested greater emphasis on the study, research, and application... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

of Keynesian theory in the post-war years gave the subject greater prestige, and the 1958 reports on the state of business education in America by the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation led to a greater emphasis on the social... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kaplan's research, teaching, and consulting focus on performance measurement, including the Balanced Scorecard and activity-based costing. He is the creator of the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of mills on the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers that was... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

information," she says. John holds a PhD in behavioral decision theory from Carnegie Mellon University, where she also earned an MSc in psychology and behavioral decision research. View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

speeding along. He would like to wire his will into the lives of millions—by creating a structure that will constrain their behaviors according to his wishes. He is the ambitious demon of our age—one whose incarnation in the Carnegies and... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

start-ups—in every continent. However, the Internet has really been a catalyst for entrepreneurship in many countries, and this trend will last beyond the Internet wave. Entrepreneurship has always played a major role in the U.S., going back to the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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