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Models of Success

By: Myra M. Hart
Myra Hart is conducting research on the career and personal paths that Harvard Business School alumnae pursue over the course of their lives. She is developing programs to encourage and support the creation of dynamic and multi-facted models of success. These programs... View Details
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Monetary and Non-monetary Incentives

By: Susanna Gallani
In this line of research, Prof. Gallani explores the interplay between monetary and non-monetary incentives in organization. In particular, she explores the effectiveness of non-monetary motivation mechanisms, including mission statements and company values, feedback,... View Details
Keywords: Non-monetary Rewards; Rewards And Penalties; Feedback; Span Of Support; Social Pressure
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Moral Muscle

By: Sandra J. Sucher

Can we get better at moral decision making? How is the capacity to exercise moral leadership developed? One answer to these questions is the notion of “moral muscle,” which is a combination of moral awareness (the ability to recognize situations that can be... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making
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Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

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Multilateral Bankruptcy Rules

By: Jerry R. Green

A classic problem in economics is the selection of a bankruptcy rule with good normative properties.  The problem as usually specified is given by the “estate” E which is to be divided among the “claims” c= (c1,... View Details

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Multinational Enterprises and Corporate Responsibility

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Multinational enterprises, especially those operating in developing economies, face wide-ranging demands to help persons whose basic needs are unmet. Pharmaceutical companies, for example, are asked to provide access to life-saving therapies to patients in countries... View Details

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National and Regional Competitiveness: The Agenda for Libya

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2002, (World... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Libya
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National Innovative Capacity and the Ideas Production Function

By: Michael E. Porter
Joint research with Scott Stern (MIT) is exploring the determinants of innovative capacity across countries using time series/cross-section data ("Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent... View Details
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Negotiating Campaigns

By: James K. Sebenius
While most negotiation research focuses on specific transactions, many important negotiating situations can better be understood as elements of larger "campaigns."  By this term, I mean a series of related negotiations and other away-from-the-table... View Details
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Negotiation Complexity

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Michael Wheeler's research focuses on negotiation as a dynamic process, one in which the capacity to learn and adapt is essential. Even in seemingly simple cases, people's interests, options, and relationships can change significantly. As a result, effective... View Details
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Negotiation Ethics and Moral Decisionmaking

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Whenever people and organizations negotiate, they implicitly decide what -- if anything -- they owe their counterparts in regard to candor, distributional fairness, and the possible use of pressure. The deals that they reach may also have impacts on stakeholders who... View Details

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New Technologies and the Future of Food and Nutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Ray A. Goldberg has been investigating the impact of new technologies on, and the functioning of, the global agribusiness system in the twenty-first century. He is currently developing a seminar to bring scientists, business leaders, academics, and consumer... View Details
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Nonprofits and the Net

By: James E. Austin
This research examined the strategic use of the internet by existing nonprofit organizations and the creation of new internet based organizations that are operating in the social sector, particularly in the philanthropic segment. Resulting publications: 'The... View Details
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Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

By: Debora L. Spar
As members of civil society NGOs would seem to have a built-in proclivity towards representation: towards working on behalf of some group of people, or toward some specific goal. Yet in practice such moments of accountability are rare. Unlike other social agents,... View Details
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On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout

By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Prominent theory research on voting analyzes a variety of models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many... View Details
Keywords: Voting Behavior; Voting Turnout; Paradox Of Voting; Pivotality; Elections; Model; Theory; Governance Transparency; Government; Democracy; Turnout; Voting; Governance; Government and Politics; Public Sector; Political Elections
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Optimal Illiquidity

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Saving
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Organization and Management Theory

By: Michael L. Tushman

This doctoral seminar explores fundamental aspects of organizations and organization theory. This seminar will cover various approaches to organizations and the institutional contexts within which they operate. We will pay particular attention to innovation and... View Details

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Organizational and Business Experimentation

By: Stefan H. Thomke
Please contact Professor Thomke for the most current description of his research on managing automotive development and/or copies of research articles (published and working papers).

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Organizational Effectiveness

By: Frances X. Frei
This research studies the obstacles that systematically get in the way of organizational effecitiveness.  In the past I have paid particular attention to service organizations, which account for over 70% of organizations in most developed countries.  This research... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Effectiveness; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Service; Growth; Management
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Organizational Identity and Firm Strategy

By: Michael L. Tushman
This research stream focuses on the role of... View Details

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