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  • February 6, 2024
  • Article

Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You’re Trying to Solve

By: George Westerman, Sam Ransbotham and Chiara Farronato
AI moves quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. What works in a lab may be wrong for your company right now. If you know the right questions to ask, you can make better decisions, regardless of how fast technology changes. You can work with your technical... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science
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Leadership, Innovation, and Strategic Change: A Conversation with Michael Tushman

By: Michael L. Tushman, Sorah Seong, Yeongsu Kim and Gabriel Szulanski
Continuing the emerging tradition of the Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference to interview foundational scholars in strategic management, we invited Professor Michael Tushman from Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Technological Change; Management Education; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Business Education
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Heterogeneity of Gain-Loss Attitudes and Expectations-Based Reference Points

By: Pol Campos-Mercade, Lorenz Goette, Thomas Graeber, Alex Kellogg and Charles Sprenger
Existing tests of reference-dependent preferences assume universal loss aversion. This paper examines heterogeneity in gain-loss attitudes, and explores its implications for identifying models of the reference point. In two experimental settings we measure gain-loss... View Details
Keywords: Reference-dependent Preferences; Rational Expectations; Personal Equilibrium; Endowment Effect; Expectations-based Reference Points
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  • May 2000
  • Article

Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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  • June 2016 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies that environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes starkly different. This case compares the models of two dissimilar... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations; Business Strategy
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  • July 2007 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes starkly different. Compares the models of two dissimilar... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations; Business Strategy
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  • July 2007 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

Greenpeace

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes starkly different. Compares the models of two dissimilar... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations; Business Strategy
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  • May 2003
  • Module Note

Building Capabilities for Experimentation, Learning, and Prototyping

By: Stefan H. Thomke
Describes the conceptual foundations and pedagogy for a module on managing experimentation, learning, and prototyping in the development of products and services. Can also be used as part of a more general course on Managing Technology and Innovation. Shows how... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Product Development; Learning; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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  • May 1997
  • Teaching Note

Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti
Focuses on what constitutes product development performance and how it is assessed. Performance, as explained in both the note and in the materials for this three-session module, refers to the performance of both the product and the organizational process producing it.... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Product Development; Production; Performance Evaluation
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  • 18 May 2017
  • News

Reversing the Losing Streak on Sesame Street

  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

HBS Prof: Case Studies Need Diversity — Now

  • 22 Nov 2002
  • Other Presentation

Competitiveness and the Role of Regions

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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  • February 2008
  • Article

Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks

By: Albert Creus Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network. Given an arbitrary population of peers composed of sharers and freeriders, where all peers interconnect to maximize their allocated bandwidth, we derive the expected bandwidth... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Resource Allocation
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  • 01 Jan 2003
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
We argue here that the three factors we identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as "A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values" that proves to be very effective in allowing students to acquire the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Values and Beliefs
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    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing

      Janice H. Hammond

      Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation
      • Research Summary

      Epistemic Conditions for Iterated Admissibility (with H. Jerome Keisler)

      Iterated weak dominance, also called iterated admissibility (IA), has long been known as a powerful but conceptually puzzling solution concept. We give an epistemic foundation for IA. That is, we give conditions on the rationality of the players in the game, on what... View Details
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

      By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
      We describe how operations through laparoscopes – tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities – revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen, such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) foundational contributions of... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      • 2011
      • Article

      How Should the Graduate Economics Core be Changed?

      By: Vincent Pons, Jose Miguel Abito, Katarina Borovickova, Hays Golden, Jacob Goldin, Matthew A. Masten, Miguel Morin, Alexander Poirier, Israel Romem, Tyler Williams and Chamna Yoon
      The authors present suggestions by graduate students from a range of economics departments for improving the first-year core sequence in economics. The students identified a number of elements that should be added to the core: more training in building microeconomic... View Details
      Keywords: Design Of Core; Graduate Economics; Higher Education; Economics; Curriculum and Courses
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