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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research

Keywords: by Paul R. Carlile & Clayton M. Christensen
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

Cavallo’s research didn’t extend to why prices are changing more frequently, but he has some theories. Technology like pricing algorithms has cut both the labor and decision cost of price changes. Those algorithms have become more View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

features another common sales incentive--a "president's club" membership for those employees who sell more software than 90 percent of their peers in a given year. The software firm uses a "commission... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

the salesman's role in promoting goods was different from that of advertising. To use a military analogy common in the early twentieth century, advertising was a weapon for... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

transportation service."5 A section of the Interstate Commerce Act stated that it "was unlawful for anyone to take control or management in a common interest of two or more carriers without getting... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • 2020
  • Case

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Accelerating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Plastic has become essential to global day-to-day activities, yet it is also causing extreme environmental degradation. Many leaders in the plastics industry are starting to question its sustainability. This case presents insights into the future of the plastic... View Details
Keywords: Plastic Waste; Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Accelerating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging." William Davidson Institute Case 9-550-406, 2020.
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Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk

By: Christine L. Exley
Decisions involving charitable giving often occur under the shadow of risk. A common finding is that potential donors give less when there is greater risk that their donation will have less impact. While this behavior could be fully rationalized by standard economic... View Details
Keywords: Charitable Giving; Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Risk Preferences; Risk and Uncertainty; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Behavior
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Exley, Christine L. "Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk." Review of Economic Studies 83, no. 2 (April 2016): 587–628.
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns

By: Ki-Soon Choi, Eric So and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the use of firms’ book-to-market ratios (B/M) in value investing and its implications for comovements in firms’ stock returns and trading volumes. We show B/M has become increasingly detached from common alternative valuation ratios over time while also... View Details
Keywords: Valuation Ratios; Book-to-market Ratios; Investment Return; Investment; Decision Making
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Choi, Ki-Soon, Eric So, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-126, May 2021.
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

perspective on the organization. Since our focus reflects the preeminence of the Balanced Scorecard as the vehicle through which strategy is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors. Kaplan recently... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

engineering and was required to spend equal amounts of time at a laboratory, in front of a computer and at the hospital. “Doctors,” this professor said, “won’t trust you if they know you are engineers.” I later came to know he was being... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

describes a world economy increasingly integrated under a common set of rules and principles.” wrote Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, in a personal correspondence. “We’re now experiencing View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

operations, and how can these challenges be overcome? A: The basic question to be faced is whether the organization will be run as "one company" with a common set of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

counterparts, we work with them to carefully consider whether the other side is truly irrational. Almost always, the answer is no. In most cases, behavior that appears to be irrational has a rational—albeit... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

quoted, all saying, in effect, "I had a great time, and now I'm well." The most common treatments seem to be for cardiovascular issues, bone-related issues such as hip replacements, and general... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • March 2015
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Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

By: William Schmidt, Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai and Ananth Raman
We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment
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Schmidt, William, Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, and Ananth Raman. "Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model." Production and Operations Management 24, no. 3 (March 2015): 383–401.
  • 23 Jun 2010
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The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

    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
    • January 2022
    • Case

    SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants in almost 20... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)." Harvard Business School Case 222-022, January 2022.
    • 01 Jun 2011
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    The Best-Laid Plans

    the Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 chair. “In reality, there’s often an inverse correlation between those two things. Having said that, if you look at the quality of ideas that have converted into... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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