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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

By: David F. Drake
In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: Level behavior — the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior — the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias — the tendency to let the degree... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias; Profit
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  • February 2002 (Revised December 2003)
  • Exercise

Incentives Game, The

By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
This exercise provides an opportunity to gain insight about designing, negotiating, and responding to incentives. The setting is investment management. A class is divided into a certain number of investment firms. Each company has one CEO and begins with four portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Investment; Management
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    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • Research Summary

    Managing Financial Reporting and the Effect on Firms' Costs of Capital

    Amy P. Hutton's research investigates the impact of capital market forces and firm contracts on financial reporting and disclosure policies. Specifically, her research examines how managers use financial reporting to convey a firm's strategy, and the effect of... View Details
    • Summer 2021
    • Article

    The Origin and Development of Firm Management

    By: Michela Giorcelli
    This paper examines the historical origin and diffusion of management practices. Despite their centrality in the modern world, the concepts of ‘management’ developed fairly recently. Only with the Industrial Revolution, due to the increased firm size, owners needed a... View Details
    Keywords: Productivity; Kaizen; Management; Management Practices and Processes; History; Performance Productivity; Technology
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    • November 2020
    • Article

    When the Boss Comes to Town: The Effects of Headquarters' Visits on Facility-Level Misconduct

    By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
    We study the effects of headquarters’ visits on facility-level misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of airline routes to identify exogenous travel-time reductions between headquarters and facilities and test whether such reductions affect facility-level... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Visits By Management; Flight Routes; Control Systems; Compliance Programs; Performance Pressure; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Performance Expectations
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential... View Details
    Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Flow Production; Value Capture; Disintermediation; Production; Management; Digital Platforms
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    • July 2019
    • Article

    The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany

    By: Ariel Dora Stern, Felicitas Pietrulla, Annika Herr, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Ameet Sarpatwari
    The 2011 German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (“AMNOG”) subjected branded, non-rare disease drugs to price regulation based on an assessment of their clinical benefit. Assessment outcomes range from “major added benefit” to “less benefit than the appropriate... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Pharmaceuticals; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany
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    • Program

    Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

    is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance
    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee.... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    conversation Take Steve, a fictitious character who is almost 30 and heading to business school after a stint in private equity. Steve wants to know if he’s in line for the top job in his family’s steel company. How should he broach the View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Program

    Driving Digital Strategy

    receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral... View Details
    • Program

    Disruptive Innovation

    less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days... View Details
    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

    that qualified men applied. How to broaden your applicant pool What should a hiring manager intent on fielding more female candidates for high-level positions do? Coffman offers some advice: Steer clear of vague qualifications. Companies may want to avoid using fuzzy,... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Web

    The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Dickson published Counseling in an Organization , which revisited lessons gained from the experiments. Roethlisberger described “the Hawthorne effect” as the phenomenon in which subjects in behavioral studies change their performance in... View Details
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    Launching New Ventures

    you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Current Research

    Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

     

    Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
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    Building a Legacy

    need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are View Details
    • Program

    Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

    start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14... View Details
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    Making Corporate Boards More Effective

    Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment. View Details