Organization Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

non IT-intensive industries after 1995, reversing the previous trend. The combination of increased turbulence and concentration, especially among IT-intensive industries, is consistent with recent theories of hypercompetition as well as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September–October 2015
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Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer

Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details

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10 Jul 2007
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The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma

Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney & Dan Ariely

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

in what situation—to guide their decision making around innovation. Managers typically grow impatient when we tell them this. "Theory?" they say. "That sounds like theoretical. That sounds like impractical." But theory... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

theory is that, as chess players increase their skills, they increase the use of their frontal lobes—the part of the brain responsible for memory and determining consequences of actions. Chess, according to Berman, teaches children to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Events - Business History

Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 10 10 Nov... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

02 Dec 2010
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Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

at its heart, involves a series of choices. Neuropsychologists tell us that the human brain can comfortably deal with only a limited number of alternatives (seven plus or minus two, according to a number of studies). Fields like decision View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity

Equity at Work Symposium HBS Staff Author HBS Staff How does hope become a practice? As our exploration of hope traversed through overtures of its possibilities to an excavation of its pitfalls, we arrived several times at a theory of... View Details

08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49543 Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences Across Organizations By: Brown, Jennifer, and Dylan Minor Abstract—We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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A Letter from Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

changing society for the better. The goal of my work has always been to develop theory and concepts that inform and guide practice. What actually happens on the ground—for business leaders, health care practitioners and patients,... View Details

June 2017
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The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details

Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation

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27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

some people's inputs count more than their actual knowledge warrants, to the detriment of the project. The problem is common—and avoidable, says HBS professor Heidi K. Gardner, who has developed and tested a theory of pressure on teams... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 Jan 2014
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Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

MBA 2013. Marisa Kozachenok (MBA 2014): And I am Marisa Kozachenok, HBS 2014. Dmitry: I was in my second year. I think I had six weeks before leaving campus, and I'd never met Marissa before. She was a year below, and we never overlapped through social circles. So I... View Details

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

systems with recursive influence between environments and interactions, studies of micro-processes in organizations often assume implicitly that interactions among organizational members are closed systems. We suggest that this... View Details