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  • 14 Dec 2021
  • News

At This Tech Company, Workers Vote on Each Other’s Pay Raises

  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Michael W. Toffel
Professor Toffel teaches the required first-year MBA course Technology and Operations Management (TOM).

He also coordinates and teaches the Doctoral Seminar in Technology and Operations Management to help... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Government Legislation; Non-Governmental Organizations; Multinational Firms and Management
  • Research Summary

Research Overview

Eddie Riedl's research focuses on two primary topics: fair value accounting, and international accounting settings. 

Regarding fair value accounting, his research examines both the critical reporting choices that managers make, as well as... View Details

  • August 2021
  • Article

Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

By: Kate Barasz and Serena Hagerty
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the research... View Details
Keywords: Decision Avoidance; Difficult Decisions; Judgment And Decision Making; Medical Decision-making; Decision Making; Behavior
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  • September 2021
  • Article

Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures

By: Joshua L. Krieger
I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' research and development (R&D) failures, as well as through their own results. I examine the trade-offs and interactions between product-market competition and... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Projects; Failure; Decision Making; Learning
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  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

their leaders to recognize the importance and take advantage of advances in communications technology to remain relevant and competitive. J. W. Carpenter reported that "Our study shows that without the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • May 2023
  • Article

Competition in Pricing Algorithms

By: Zach Y. Brown and Alexander J. MacKay
We document new facts about pricing technology using high-frequency data, and we examine the implications for competition. Some online retailers employ technology that allows for more frequent price changes and automated responses to price changes by rivals. Motivated... View Details
Keywords: Pricing Algorithms; Pricing Frequency; Commitment; Online Competition; Price; Information Technology; Competition
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  • Career Coach

Yiwei Zhao

Yiwei enjoys helping students explore opportunities in the following industries: Technology (big tech and growth-stage tech), self-driving cars, AI/ML, and consulting; and functions: product operations, product management, program... View Details
  • November 2008
  • Background Note

Welcome to a Wireless World

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
Wireless technologies and mobile devices have played crucial roles in the evolution of the digital ecosystem. This note looks at cell phones, smartphones, mobile technologies, and popular applications noting companies that are positioned to capture the value engendered... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Product; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • January 1984
  • Background Note

Note on the Textile Industry in the 1980s

By: Kim B. Clark
Presents major developments in textile production technology during the 1970s and early 1980s. Outlines the specific innovations as well as the company and country of origin. View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Production; Manufacturing Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

MD Foods Amba

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In 1998, MD Foods, a Denmark-based dairy cooperative, was searching for growth opportunities that would enable it to become northern Europe's preferred retail dairy supplier. The options being considered included expanding in existing markets, entering into new... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Alliances; Innovation and Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; Denmark
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  • October 1990 (Revised November 1992)
  • Case

Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (A)

By: Clayton M. Christensen
A small ceramics company started by a group of MIT professors struggles with some basic technology strategy issues. A plan to take "one commercializable step" at a time in order to get a foothold in the market goes awry because of incompatibility between the company's... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Technology; Problems and Challenges; Market Entry and Exit; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Cambridge
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Senior Team Emotional Dynamics and Strategic Decision Making at a Platform Transition

By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael L. Tushman
Based on an inductive case study, we develop an emotional-temporal process model of an incumbent’s strategic decision making at a platform transition. We describe the senior team’s emotional response to this transition and the impact of these emotions on their... View Details
Keywords: Emotions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Transition; Digital Platforms
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  • July–August 2023
  • Article

What Smart Companies Know About Integrating AI

By: Silvio Palumbo and David Edelman
AI has the power to gather, analyze, and utilize enormous volumes of individual customer data to achieve precision and scale in personalization. The experiences of Mercury Financial, CVS Health, and Starbucks debunk the prevailing notion that extracting value from AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Customization and Personalization; Integration; Technology Adoption
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  • 09 Jun 2016
  • News

Innovative Business/IT Solutions: An interview with Assistant Professor Kris Ferreira

  • 01 Feb 2021
  • News

The Recession Exposes the US’ Failures on Worker Retraining

  • July 2017 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Joel L. Dawson: Eta Devices

By: Steven Rogers and Derek G. Abrams
After a successful career in research and academia, Joel Dawson decided to pursue entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry. As one of the growing number of African-Americans in the technology field, Joel Dawson co-founded Eta Devices in 2010 based on new... View Details
Keywords: Joel Dawson; Eta Devices; Semiconductor Entrepreneurship; Decision Theory; Decision Making; Finance; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Semiconductor Industry; Boston
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    Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

    Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Professor Hiatt’s research is aimed at discovering how institutional factors can affect sector growth and technology development and adoption by mediating and moderating uncertainty. His work encompasses two related research questions:

    1) How can... View Details