Publications

SSRN

January 2017
Supplement

Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners: Cash Flow Tool

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton

DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded... View Details

Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Startup Management; Startup; Strategic Positioning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States

Purchase

October 2013
Article

How Much to Make and How Much to Buy? An Analysis of Optimal Plural Sourcing Strategies

By: Phanish Puranam, Ranjay Gulati and Sourav Bhattacharya

While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input—they engage in plural sourcing. We argue that explaining the mix of external procurement and internal sourcing for the same input... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Framework; Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods

Jul 2003 - 2003
Conference Presentation

The Politics of Technological Change: How Firms Act to Influence the Decisions of Public Authorities Regarding Technological Change

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Technology; Change; Decision Making

2013
Article

Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals

By: S. A. Swift, D. Moore, Z. Sharek and F. Gino

When explaining others' behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals... View Details

Keywords: Evaluations; Correspondence Bias; Selection Decisions; Attribution; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Evaluation; Cognition and Thinking

Book Review

Review of Implementing New Technologies: Choice, Decision and Change in Manufacturing, edited by E. Rhodes and D. Wield

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

Keywords: Information Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Change; Production

Web

Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) Course Number 1556 Professor Amy Edmondson Associate Professor Tiona Zuzul Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam (Previously: Becoming a General Manager)... View Details

17 Nov 2023
News

Making Magic Happen: How to Create Psychological Safety in Your Company

06 Mar 2022
News

Don’t Be Miserable in Middle Age. Make a Happiness Plan Today

05 May 2017
News

Former CFO Paula Price makes her career teaching, serving on boards

Article

Optimality Bias in Moral Judgment

By: Julian De Freitas and Samuel G.B. Johnson

We often make decisions with incomplete knowledge of their consequences. Might people nonetheless expect others to make optimal choices, despite this ignorance? Here, we show that people are sensitive to moral optimality: that people hold moral agents accountable... View Details

Keywords: Moral Judgment; Lay Decision Theory; Theory Of Mind; Causal Attribution; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

States to the Jordanians. Proof of the venture's strategic benefits are apparent in sales that top $10-million in the first year of operation and are expected to exceed $25-million in the second. Collaborative ventures such as Century... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

2002
Other Unpublished Work

Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

By: George P. Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard

Keywords: Truck Transportation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ownership; Transportation Industry

December 1994
Article

The Inconsistent Role of Comparison Others and Procedural Justice to Hypothetical Job Descriptions: Implications for Job Acceptance Decisions

By: M. H. Bazerman, H. A. Schroth, P. P. Shah, K. A. Diekmann and A. E. Tenbrunsel

Keywords: Human Resources; Decision Making

2011
Working Paper

From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes

For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Culture; Situation or Environment; Banking Industry

March 2005
Article

Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of Decision Making: A Study of Auction Fever in Live and Internet Auctions

By: Gillian Ku, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan

Keywords: Competition; Decision Making; Auctions; Online Technology

25 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

empowers aspiring leaders to address the most complex problems in health care and make a lasting impact on society. If you’re considering this path, it’s a decision that will set you up to lead, innovate,... View Details

January 2018
Supplement

Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu

On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details