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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

By: Kristina S. McElheran
This paper explores the relationship between market position and business process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • May – June 2011
  • Article

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness

By: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Can groups become effective simply by assembling high status individual performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Equity; Theory; Human Resources; Integration; Body of Literature; Performance Effectiveness; Status and Position; Experience and Expertise
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    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

    • 25 Aug 2015
    • First Look

    First Look Tuesday

    announcement-leading to even greater use of the same production tool. Two controlled lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases, not rational expectations, drive the effect. Our research contributes not only... View Details
    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    Business Economics From corporate finance, industrial organization, and international business, to markets, competition, and government regulation, HBS doctoral students in Business Economics delve into some of the most pressing and relevant topics in the field of... View Details

      Teaming

      New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change

      Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges... View Details

      • 10 Jul 2023
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

      my research on leading complex organizations and scaling businesses, I've chosen Unleash Your Transformation by Marco Van Kalleveen and Peter Koijen. This book offers valuable insights and practical... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 28 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 28, 2009

      behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew the consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's intuitions in ethical judgments.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Developing a Sustainable High Commitment, High Performance System of Organizing, Managing, and Leading: An Actionable Systems Theory of Change and Development

      By: Michael Beer
      This paper presents a theory for developing an adaptive high commitment, high performance system of organizing, managing, and leading. It is a synthesis of my 50 years of action and field research presented in my books and articles. It operationalized and makes... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes
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      • 2010
      • Book

      The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance

      By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman
      Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight: They have huge volumes of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain... View Details
      Keywords: Profit; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
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      • 26 Jan 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: Jan. 26

      integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      the School and progress towards its key priorities. The AI Journey: What Changes, What Remains the Same 10:00–11:15 a.m. ET Both livestreamed and recorded Speaker: Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management View Details
      • 11 Feb 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      EVENT POSTPONED - Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

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      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy View Details
      • 13 Sep 2016
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      September 13, 2016

      awareness. In this paper, we review research on both bounded ethicality and bounded awareness and connect the two areas to highlight the challenges of encouraging managers and leaders to notice and act to stop unethical conduct. We close... View Details
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      ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

      Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

      • 22 May 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

      Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak & Alvin E. Roth

        Michael A. Wheeler

        Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

        Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
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        Systems Psychodynamics

        Most of my research and pedagogical practice are informed by a systems psychodynamics perspective. First introduced by social scientists who conjugated open systems and psychoanalytic theories in their scholarly writing and organizational consulting, this... View Details

        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

        By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
        We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details
        Keywords: Succession Planning; Organizational Hierarchy; Compensation; Promotions; Tournaments; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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