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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

    • April 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Jiangxi Agribusiness: (TN)

    By: David F. Hawkins
    [TN for 114-039] Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Jiangxi Agribusiness... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
    Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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    • Teaching Interest

    MBA Required Curriculum Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)

    By: Rakesh Khurana

    This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

    The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:

    • March 2016 (Revised February 2021)
    • Case

    Lotus F1 Team

    By: Stefan Thomke, Nikolaos Trichakis, Jérôme Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    Describes the detailed inner workings of a high performance Formula One (F1) racing team. It shows how Lotus F1 Team has been able to battle bigger rivals in a very fast-moving, highly regulated, and ultra-competitive environment, where winning races can come down to... View Details
    Keywords: Formula One; Motor Sport; Racing Cars; Car Development; Supply Chain; Logistics; Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Product Design; Research and Development; Auto Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 05 Jun 2020
    • News

    FT business books: April to June edition

    • Research Summary

    When Distance Shrinks: The Effects of Competitor Proximity on Firm Survival

    What are the performance implications of locating close to firms in one's industry? The existing empirical evidence is mixed. In this paper I argue that proximity between firms affects their performance differently... View Details
    • November 5, 2024
    • Article

    The International Empirics of Management

    By: Daniela Scur, Scott Ohlmacher, John Van Reenen, Morten Bennedsen, Nick Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Lucia Foster, Jesse Groenewegen, Arti Grover, Sjoerd Hardeman, Leonardo Iacovone, Ryo Kambayashi, Marie-Christine Laible, Renata Lemos, Hongbin Li, Andrea Linarello, Mika Maliranta, Denis Medvedev, Charlotte Meng, John Miles Touya, Natalia Mandirola, Roope Ohlsbom, Atsushi Ohyama, Megha Patnaik, Mariana Pereira-López, Raffaella Sadun, Tatsuro Senga, Franklin Qian and Florian Zimmermann
    A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP. Although social scientists have long... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Productivity; Economy; Management Practices and Processes
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    • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Hubei Lantian (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Nancy Hua Dai
    Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Hubei Lantian Co., Ltd. (Hubei Lantian),... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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    • 26 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

    customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • October 2014
    • Article

    Industrial Policy and the Creation of New Industries: Evidence from Brazil's Bioethanol Industry

    By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
    Industrial policy programs are frequently used by governments to stimulate economic activity in particular sectors of the economy. This study explores how an industrial policy program can affect the creation and evolution of an industry and, ultimately, the long-term... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Policy; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil
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      Kris Johnson Ferreira

      Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

      Keywords: retailing

        Dennis Campbell

        Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

        Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
        • 2011
        • Working Paper

        What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

        By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon
        While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details
        Keywords: Cost of Capital; Credit; Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment; Government and Politics; Data and Data Sets; Resource Allocation; Markets; Performance; Banking Industry; Brazil
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        • 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
        • Conference Presentation

        The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

        By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
        Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details
        Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports
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        • 2020
        • Working Paper

        Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies

        By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
        Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental, and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a... View Details
        Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Performance; Strategy
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        Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'

        By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
        Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Relationship Management
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        • 22 Oct 2018
        • Sharpening Your Skills

        Motivate Me, Please

        SolStock Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was known to criticize staff for being "coin-operated" instead of mission-driven. Understanding what motivates good performance is crucial for managers to master. Here is a... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • August 2018
        • Case

        MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha

        By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
        The case opens in 2017 with two of the five co-founders of MISHA telling the company’s CEO Michal Portz that they believe it is time for the global venture to shut down its operations and cease investments. Portz and another co-founder believe MISHA can still... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation And Management; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Business Strategy; Decision; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Qatar; United States
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        • August 2001 (Revised June 2024)
        • Case

        Operations at the Donner Company

        By: H. Kent Bowen
        A small manufacturer of circuit boards faces product and operations-management problems. This case analyzes the production capacity at various stages and examines bottlenecks and product flow decisions. A detailed look at the problems and a discussion of the tools and... View Details
        Keywords: Operations; Production; Performance Capacity; Business Processes; Logistics; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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