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By: John Beshears
In his research, Professor Beshears shows how managers can influence the behavior of customers and employees by changing the decision-making environment to call attention to a decision, to use psychological framing to shape assessments of options, or to help... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Consumer Finance; Household Finance; Health Care; Organizational Economics; Decision Making; Economics; Negotiation; Behavioral Finance

    Beyond the Holacracy Hype

    Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have received a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. My coauthors and I argue,... View Details

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    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    By: Andy Wu

    Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country—and... View Details

    • January 2025
    • Case

    COMAC - Chinese Aviation Soars to New Heights

    By: William C. Kirby and Daniel Fu
    COMAC's C919 manifested the first challenge to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly since it came to dominate aircraft manufacturing in the 1990s. Beijing sought to export the C919 abroad in its quest to become a "transportation superpower." Was it a wise decision for COMAC to... View Details
    Keywords: Aviation; Boeing; Airbus; Aircraft; State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Chinese Manufacturing; Airline Industry; Airports; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Supply Chain; Expansion; Aerospace Industry; China; United States; Europe
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    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Commentary on 'Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching at Harvard Business School' by Teresa da Silva Lopes

    By: Louis T. Wells
    The Comments follow the evolution of International Business (IB) at Harvard Business School (HBS) after the IB Area was disbanded in 1973. Several IB faculty were relocated to a course on the economic and political environment of business. HBS dropped its doctoral... View Details
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    • 2021
    • Article

    Cluster Presence and Economic Performance: A New Look Based on European Data

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
    This paper takes a fresh empirical look at how cluster presence matters for economic performance. It analyses a new data set developed for the European Cluster Observatory to assess the impact of clusters on industry-level wages and regional prosperity. It is found... View Details
    Keywords: Cluster; Economic Geography; Prosperity; Economic Performance; Wages; Economy; Europe
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    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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    • January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
    • Case

    Lexon Corp. (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry
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    • 05 Oct 2018
    • News

    Will the Property Industry Change Before the Sea Level Does?

    • 12 May 2023
    • Video

    Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

    • 03 Oct 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

    Keywords: by Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu; Education
    • August 2022
    • Article

    The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

    By: Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
    In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally... View Details
    Keywords: Self-promotion; Gender Gap; Experiments; Performance Evaluation; Gender
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    • May 2000
    • Article

    Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
    This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
    Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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      COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance

      Boards are facing a complex new reality as a result of Covid-19. The new environment is characterized by pressures and demands from various stakeholder groups, heightened expectations for societal engagement and corporate citizenship, and radical uncertainty... View Details
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      Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

      Summary Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each... View Details
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      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      Director, HBS Business & Environment Initiative Video Recording Beyond Business as Usual: Climate Disruptors Faculty Moderator: Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022) ,... View Details
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      Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

      Ayelet Israeli Isamar Troncoso Entrepreneurship Thomas R. Eisenmann Kyle R. Myers Maria P. Roche Sara McKinley Torti Environment Michael W. Toffel Health care quality Robert S. Huckman Information technology Iavor I. Bojinov Shane M.... View Details
      • 04 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

      environment more seriously yet rely on it less than male stars do. They look for a firm that will allow them to keep building their successful franchises their own way." Groysberg brings us up to date on his study of the career... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective

      By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
      Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
      Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
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      • 04 Sep 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

      the business environment cause economic shifts that destabilize industries, companies, and even countries. They allow new entrants or forward-thinking established players to introduce innovations—in products, markets, or processes—that... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate