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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
offer opportunities for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56001 Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose By: Salter, Malcolm S. Abstract—In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how businesses are changing due to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares HBS professor Robert Simons of... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zürich, Switzerland: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010 Abstract The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
race theory to classic sociological questions. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: a project focused on race and organizational theory with the University of Chicago Press and public book on... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
of past successes to predict that more successes are in store. The theory in use is that if you find someone with a track record and with the right-stuff attributes, then he or she can successfully manage the new business venture. But in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
further acted as a lightning rod such that team members' emotional responses to them were constant reminders of subgroup differences on these teams, which further fueled negative emotions. Our findings extend theory on subgroup dynamics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
way we will build a new theory about leaders that, even as it acknowledges that most individual leaders have little impact, identifies the relatively rare circumstances when a single individual in the right place, at the right time, can... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
emulate, support, and manage these important individuals for long-term corporate success. Managing Local Governments: Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value by Emanuele Padovani and David W. Young (DBA 1977) (Routledge)... View Details