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  • January 2025
  • Module Note

Understanding and Addressing Gender Gaps

By: Katherine Coffman
This module provides a framework for students to analyze how gender stereotypes, through their impact on beliefs about others and beliefs about ourselves, contribute to gender gaps in the workplace. The module proceeds in three parts. First, through a case and an... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Gender; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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  • Research Summary

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Navid has worked with different organizations across various industries, from the Federal Reserve to medical device manufacturers, heavy construction equipment sellers, and B2B software providers, to assemble proprietary datasets in studying organizational buying.... View Details

  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

geographies, and more decentralized decision-making closer to the customer. That said, participants say they‘re employing more ad hoc problem-focused teams as overlays to their more permanent organizational structures. These teams almost... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

    Jan W. Rivkin

    Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

    Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
    • 02 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services
    • Article

    Pitfall or Scaffolding? Starting-point Pull in Configuration Decision Making

    By: Eliran Halali, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and David Leiser
    In configuration problems, such as the construction of a weekly study schedule, decision makers must assemble a combination of parts under a set of constraints. Interactions may be present between the parts, and more than a single objective function may exist, such as... View Details
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

    By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
    This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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    Overview

    Professor Huang examines the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: the individual-level decision-making processes that influence entrepreneurs’ ability to acquire resources that they need, yet lack, especially financial capital. Deploying a variety of methods from... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

    structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that fosters meaningful criticism of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 11, 2023
    • Article

    How Reputation Does (and Does Not) Drive People to Punish Without Looking

    By: Jillian J. Jordan and Nour S. Kteily
    Punishing wrongdoers can confer reputational benefits, and people sometimes punish without careful consideration. But are these observations related? Does reputation drive people to people to “punish without looking”? And if so, is this because unquestioning... View Details
    Keywords: Opposing Perspectives; Outrage Culture; Signaling; Ideology; Moralistic Punishment; Perspective; Behavior; Reputation; Decision Making
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    • 26 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

    the motivations of hiring managers. At ShopCo, the repugnance felt by decision-makers was authentic, she says, whereas at other organizations, the same argument could be used to intentionally keep diversity at lower levels of an... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 15 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15

      Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé Abstract—We develop an analytical framework on the basis of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

    Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking

      Eric J. Van den Steen

      Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

      Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

      • 05 Feb 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 5

      results suggest that board of director networks provide economic benefits that are not immediately reflected in stock prices. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1651407 Leading in Crises: Observations on the Political and View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Applied Business Analytics

      Course Overview:

      Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details

        Michael A. Wheeler

        Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

        Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
        • 04 Mar 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

        interpretation of the results, which is that we are identifying these human decision-making tendencies that explain why demographic change is so slow,” Chang says. “Once demographic change has happened, it’s much stickier than people... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • 02 Apr 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

        Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking