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12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Motel in downtown Memphis. Although he was just 39 years old at the time of his death, the autopsy revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old. Thirteen years leading the civil rights movement, suppressing the fear that accompanied daily threats of violence towards... View Details

June 2007
Article

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver

Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry

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August 2006
Article

Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is There a Small-Sample Bias?

By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler

Many studies find that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these findings may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's (2003, Journal of Finance... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Fairness; Managerial Roles; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Equity; Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment; Capital Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return

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2003
Mimeo

The Economic Motivations for Using Project Finance

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Motivation and Incentives

December 2008 (Revised October 2010)
Case

Paul Capital Partners: Secondary Limited Partnership Investing

By: David S. Scharfstein

This case examines the proposed purchase by Paul Capital Partners of a limited partnership (LP) interest in a private equity fund. Paul Capital has a fund dedicated to buying these "secondary" LP interests. The case is intended as a vehicle for discussing the secondary... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Investment; Private Equity; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Interests; Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

accountability demands. HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim examines the tradeoffs inherent in a range of accountability mechanisms. Key concepts include: Accountability is not simply about compliance with laws or industry standards, but is more... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

2002
Book

Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles and Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.

Keywords: Trust; Reports

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December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Alibaba Group

By: Julie M. Wulf

Teaching Note for 710436. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Subsidiaries; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; China

November 1974
Case

Job Corps

Describes the efforts of the director of Job Corps to stave off the destruction of his agency by the Nixon administration. In this process, the director built extensive power bases which he mobilized in support of Job Corps. The end result was that Job Corps was not... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Business and Government Relations

1995
Other Unpublished Work

User's Guide for KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Burnside and S. S. Gryskiewicz

Keywords: Creativity; Surveys

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

conduct sociological and psychological studies to get a true handle on what motivates people to do what they do—and what motivates them to do better. With that, we share some well-researched tips—based on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

and Warren Bennis that judgment trumps experience. While raising many other questions about the column, Michael Scott pointed out that "as the book (by Tichy and Bennis) makes clear, judgment is the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

January 1987
Article

Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market

By: Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Behavior; Stocks; Markets

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August 1995
Article

Can Computer Personalities Be Human Personalities?

By: C. I. Nass, Y. Moon, B. J. Fogg, B. Reeves and D. C. Dryer

Keywords: Information Technology; Personal Characteristics

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2009
Other Unpublished Work

Choice-based Measures of Conflict in Preferences

By: Katherine Baldiga and Jerry R. Green

We propose a family of measures of difference between ordinal preference relations. The difference between two preferences is the probability that they would disagree about the optimal choice from a random available set. It is in this sense that these measures are... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Conflict of Interests; Welfare

January 2011
Teaching Note

Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham

Teaching Note for 4249 View Details

Keywords: Project Management; Conflict Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Projects; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development

December 2010
Article

The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses

By: A. M. Grant, F. Gino and D. A. Hoffman

The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts. Although it is generally accepted that extroverts make the best leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable,... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Management Style; Groups and Teams; Personal Characteristics

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Article

The Bittersweet Feeling of Success: An Examination of Social Perception in Negotiation

By: L. Thompson, K. L. McGinn and R. M. Kramer

Keywords: Success; Perception; Negotiation

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March 2001 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Merck Latin America (C): Brazil

By: Michael Beer and James Weber

Examines Merck's change effort in Brazil from the perspective of the local employees. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Operations; Perspective; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brazil

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