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    The Transparency Paradox

    2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory

    Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details

    • 2011
    • Chapter

    Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

    By: Michael Beer
    The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    “Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 05 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5

    if they did not obtain the second reward. We discuss implications for research on motivation and incentives. Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy Authors:A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2021
    • Article

    Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation

    By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
    Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Science; Transportation Demand Management; Commuting; Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes; Transportation; Behavior; Change; Environmental Sustainability
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    Social Choice and Voting Rules

    By: Jerry R. Green

    This research program is based on the idea that good voting systems should take into account the frequency with which different choice problems arise. Traditional social choice theory requires properties over a fixed domain of choice problems but does not offer the... View Details

    • 30 Oct 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Vincent Larivière, University of Montréal

      Joshua D. Margolis

      Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

      Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
      • 15 Aug 2005
      • HBS Case

      Classic Cases Live On at HBS

      reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons
      • Article

      Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions

      By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Sheena Iyengar
      A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn, their leadership effectiveness. Results... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Perception; Employees; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Characteristics
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      Consumer-Brand Relationships

      Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the... View Details
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      The Transition to Retirement

      By: Teresa M. Amabile

      My current major research program is the Retirement Transitions Study: a broad study of retiring professionals' everyday experiences, including identification with work; identity stability, change, and development; meaningfulness of work; changes in life structure,... View Details

      Keywords: Careers; Psychology; Creativity; Identity; Retirement; Meaning
      • 11 Apr 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      The High Risks of Short-Term Management

      Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
      • Fall 2021
      • Article

      When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

      By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble
      Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis
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        Roberto Verganti

        Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

        Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles
        • 2022
        • Article

        Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations

        By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju
        As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details
        Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods; Research; Analytics and Data Science
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        • May 2018
        • Article

        Linda Babcock: Go-getter and Do-gooder

        By: Max Bazerman, Iris Bohnet, Hannah Riley-Bowles and George Loewenstein
        In this tribute to the 2007 recipient of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory‐To‐Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), we celebrate Linda Babcock's contributions to diverse lines of research, her tireless and effective efforts to put... View Details
        Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Biography; Research; Negotiation; Leadership; Practice
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        • January 1995
        • Case

        Understanding User Needs

        By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
        Presents an introduction to methods for understanding user needs in product development. Describes a number of techniques including the use of focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, the Kano method, Lead User analysis, the Product Value matrix, OFD, etc. Provides a... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Product Development; Mathematical Methods
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        • 07 Apr 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

        coins and tokens—payments they often fail to disclose. Unfortunately for retail investors, following online crypto advice, especially from self-described “experts,” has the potential to bring significant financial losses, according to new View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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        Valuation Theory and Practice

        Timothy A. Luehrman's primary research interest is in the application of valuation methods to companies, businesses, and individual assets. Some of his work involves applications of tools originally developed for valuing derivative securities to the valuation of other... View Details