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    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • 19 Jul 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

    Keywords: by Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman & William Schmidt
    • 12 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 12

      Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 May 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

    concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    studies from methodological and ideological perspectives; others find the overarching questions and theories of the time have new relevance in light of the current focus on collaborative management. The experiments remain a telling case... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 30, 2007

    are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8

    product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    bargain and how AI changes the calculus. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation 23 APR 2025 | Managing the Future of Work The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the... View Details
    • 04 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 4

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    personal and organizational effectiveness. Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and... View Details
    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    had both Dutch and British members, and directors and functional departments were based in both countries and had managerial responsibilities without regard for the formality of N.V. or Ltd./PLC ownership. Thus, while ownership lay in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

    theory to life and makes it relevant.   Throughout my time so far at HBS, I have fine-tuned my approach to make the most out of case study learning. Here are eight tips that I hope will be as helpful to you as they have been to me.  ... View Details
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship... View Details
    • 09 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

    In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
    • 09 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 9, 2008

    operate according to a business model that can be broken down into four elements: a customer value proposition that fulfills an important job for the customer in a better way than anything competitors offer; a profit formula that lays out... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 23

    learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
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    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of the world's best researchers as to how organizational change in general—and sustainable change in particular—can be most effectively managed. The book begins by View Details
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    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when... View Details