John H. Davis - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2011
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success, especially with respect to Iran's nuclear program. Taking John Limbert's book, Negotiating with Iran as a point of departure, this essay develops such a perspective, suggesting several means of influence. Read the paper: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
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Working PapersMental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman (revised March 2008) Abstract We study the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Playbook: A Practical Guide to Building a Successful Business By Paul H. Woodruff (PMD 27, 1974) Independently Published Many people want to turn their passion into a successful business. With this book, Paul Woodruff compiles his... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

November 2015
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Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

By: Bryan M. Burt, Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki and John G. Byrne

OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures.

METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry

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Business School, olvwork88210 Founded in 1881 by two non-Native white men, John Healy and Charles Bigelow, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company sold “healing” salves and cures, including a concoction they called “Sagwa.” Allegedly derived... View Details

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

process and Davis's creative leadership and ability to cultivate talent (such as that of saxophonist John Coltrane)—many of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century came out of the informal "Miles View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

September 16 New York Times article. Merrill Lynch's chairman David H. Komansky (107th AMP) and president and COO E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), both of whom were displaced from offices in the World Financial Center, also announced a $10... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

08 Feb 2011
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Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

members, including early supporter William A. Sahlman, and passed it along to entrepreneurship club members Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David M. Rosenblatt, and John N. Iannuccillo (all MBA 1997). “We were really focused on spawning... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2013
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Thomas H. Lee Abstract—In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2013
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Poets & Quants' Top-Ranked Startup: Wildfire

Keywords: Google; social media; Wildfire; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

it with the best people I could hire. John Sweeney (MBA 1969) That worked out pretty well I was fired once. I had been placed as general manager of a division of a larger company. We had two boom years and then everything seemed to fall... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

even apply through our many events, outreach at fairs, office hours, blogs, and other digital channels. In addition, we’re working with groups such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an organization John Rice (MBA 1992) founded, which... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

determine how to address this new competitor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707431 PublicationsJudgment in Managerial Decision Making Authors:Max Bazerman and D. Moore Publication:7th ed. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy

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