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  • Teaching Interest

Data Science for Managers

  • Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises. 
  • Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data. 
  • Developed interactive web... View Details
  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee
Pressure intensifies on a strategy consulting team as they deliver a critical project, and the team manager faces a dilemma about her changing role on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Consulting Industry
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    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
    • 06 May 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6, 2008

    situations, for example; and being in the spotlight—that is, working in the presence of an audience. Individually, these factors can seriously impair managerial decision making; together, their consequences can be dire, as evidenced by... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 30, 2007

      Working PapersRecognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making Authors:Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien Abstract In novel environments, strategic decision-making is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2023
    • In Practice

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    managerial “miscalculations” have still occurred during attempts to put rockets into space because human decision-making and judgment continue to play vital roles in problem-solving. "AI tools can create... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
    • 16 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 16, 2010

    be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

    organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 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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    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • Web

    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    evolution of managerial careers in our society, managing diversity, and organizational design and change to meet evolving needs and expectations in a changing world. Recent Publications The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on... View Details
    • Web

    Executive Education - Global

    LOCATION Africa, , United States FEE $28,000 Summary Skillfully navigate Africa’s changing markets, formulating strategies that drive growth for your business within and beyond the continent. Who Should Attend Senior executives with strategic View Details
    • 20 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 20

    Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less Hierarchical Organizing By: Lee, Michael Y., and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 19 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

    about how an algorithm works—but following its advice based on trusting the people who designed and tested it—can lead to better decision-making and financial results for businesses, say researchers affiliated with the Laboratory for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Web

    Online Management Course | HBS Online

    offer. Management Essentials $1,850 Next 8-week session starts Oct 1st Enroll Now Master four vital managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. 8 weeks 4-7 hours per week 4... View Details

      Arthur I Segel

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      Keywords: federal government; real estate
      • 08 Oct 2013
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      First Look: October 8

      environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne