Publications

2008
Working Paper

Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren

We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Choices and Conditions

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2007
Chapter

Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation

Article

Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details

Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare

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July/September 2005
Article

Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

By: Rawi Abdelal

This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details

Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union

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June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
Background Note

Market Efficiency

By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zachary Page and Paul Passoni

Covers how prices react to information, the incentives for bringing information into prices, and the paradox of market efficiency in equilibrium--for investors to work hard keeping markets efficient, they must always be somewhat inefficient at the margin. Uses separate... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Price

Educators

2005
Working Paper

Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O

Jul 2004 - 2004
Conference Presentation

Foundations for a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Solving the Paradox of Embedded Agency

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Theory; Entrepreneurship

2004
Chapter

Responsibility, Inconsistency, and the Paradoxes of Morality in Human Nature: de Waal's Window into Business Ethics

By: Joshua D. Margolis

Keywords: Ethics

Apr 2004 - 2004
Conference Presentation

Foundations for a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Solving the Paradox of Embedded Agency

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Theory

2004
Chapter

Paradoxes of Trust: Empirical and Theoretical Departures from a Traditional Model

By: J. Keith Murnighan, Deepak Malhotra and J. Mark Weber

Keywords: Trust; Mathematical Methods

2004
Chapter

The Paradox of Scope: A Challenge to the Governance of Higher Education

By: David J. Collis

Keywords: Governance; Higher Education; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry

Article

How to Develop an Organization Capable of Sustained High Performance: Embrace the Drive for Results-Capability Development Paradox

2001
Working Paper

How to Develop and Organization Capable of Sustained High Performance: Embrace the Drive for Results-Capability Development Paradox

1999
Chapter

Venture Capital and the Commercialization of Academic Technology: Symbiosis and Paradox

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Venture Capital; Commercialization; Information Technology; Education; Education Industry; Technology Industry

Article

Global Perspectives and British Paradoxes

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Global Range; Perspective; United Kingdom

Article

Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities: A Paradox in Managing New Product Development

By: D. A. Leonard-Barton

Keywords: Product; Research and Development

March 1992
Case

Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable

By: Nitin Nohria

By the early 1990s, Amgen--a pharmaceutical company started little over a decade ago as Applied Molecular Genetics--was within range of becoming a billion-dollar company. With two extremely successful biotechnology drugs on the market, Amgen stood as the largest and... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Success; Risk and Uncertainty; Pharmaceutical Industry