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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
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    Agility Hacks

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati
    In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the... View Details
    Keywords: Agile Practices; Agile Project Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Innovation Strategy
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    Ethical Blind Spots: Explaining Unintentional Unethical Behavior

    By: Ovul Sezer, F. Gino and Max H. Bazerman
    People view themselves as more ethical, fair, and objective than others, yet often act against their moral compass. This paper reviews recent research on unintentional unethical behavior and provides an overview of the conditions under which ethical blind spots lead... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category Modern Indian Art

    By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
    Stable category meanings act as institutions that facilitate market exchange by providing bases for comparison and valuation. Yet little is known about meaning construction in new categories or how meaning translates into valuation criteria. We address this gap in a... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Valuation; Auctions; Market Transactions; Arts; Agreements and Arrangements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; India
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    • 29 Mar 2021
    • News

    Continuing employee development in the face of budget cuts

      How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

      When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

        Brian J. Hall

        Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
        • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
        • Case

        Pattern Brands

        By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
        In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and... View Details
        Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business Strategy; Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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        • 2022
        • Book

        The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

        By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
        The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge. The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive... View Details
        Keywords: Digital; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Digital Transformation; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Learning; Competency and Skills
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        • 2012
        • Chapter

        Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model

        By: Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard and Kari L. Granger
        The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition
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          Pietro Satriano

          Pietro Satriano is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School.  He sits on the boards of CarMax, the largest omni-channel used car retailer in the U.S. and Metro, a large regional grocery retailer in Canada.  Pietro advises a number of food-tech startups and acts... View Details

          • 2020
          • Working Paper

          Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Ecosystems and Complementarities

          By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
          The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of “complementarity.” Ecosystems are... View Details
          Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Complementarity; Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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          • 13 May 2021
          • Blog Post

          HBS Got Talent

          In January 2020, I (Lori Ossip, MBA 2021) alongside MBA 2020 grads Russell Citron, Melanie Sperling, and Billy Tabrizi were working on a new charity event: HBS Got Talent, a massive talent show with live acts and celebrity judges to be... View Details
          • 2015
          • Working Paper

          Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

          By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and Francesca Gino
          Traditional models of operations management involve dynamic decision-making assuming optimal (Bayesian) updating. However, behavioral theory suggests that individuals exhibit bias in their beliefs and decisions. We conduct both a field study and two laboratory studies... View Details
          Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Egocentric Bias; Experience; Healthcare Operations; Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Operations; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment
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          • October 2018
          • Case

          P-Will at DISCO

          By: Ethan Bernstein, Naoko Jinjo and Yuna Sakuma
          From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather extraordinary success: it had simultaneously achieved 70% global market share, had lifted its... View Details
          Keywords: Human Capital; P-Will; DISCO; Semiconductors; Self-Managed Organizations; Governance; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Semiconductor Industry; Japan
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          • September 2008
          • Article

          Let Disruption Fix Education

          By: Henry Eyring and Renee Hopkins Callahan
          Eyring and Hopkins Callahan apply Clayton Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation to Higher Education. The Spellings' Commission's 2006 report cited rising costs, lack of access, and a rift between output and the average stakeholder's needs in U.S. Higher... View Details
          Keywords: Education; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Education Industry
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          • February 2011
          • Article

          Bounded Ethicality in Negotiations

          By: Max Bazerman
          Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating images of themselves as moral individuals. We overview the psychology that... View Details
          Keywords: Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Reputation; Negotiation; Moral Sensibility
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          • 16 Oct 2017
          • News

          Gun waiting periods could save hundreds of lives a year, study says

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          Media versus Special Interests

          By: Alexander Dyck, David Moss and Luigi Zingales
          We argue that profit-maximizing media help to overcome the rational ignorance problem highlighted by Anthony Downs. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment, media are able to inform passive voters about regulation and other public policy issues, acting... View Details
          Keywords: Media; Profit; Government and Politics
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          • March 2011
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          Cheaper Patents

          By: Tom Nicholas
          The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details
          Keywords: Patents; Global Range; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Fluctuation; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; United States; Great Britain
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