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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
is sufficiently nuanced, while still empirically observable, that empirical researchers may, in due course, hypothesize about "fit" between contingent variables, such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
newest issue of the renowned British research journal, the oldest scholarly journal in the world dating back to the 1600s. This latest issue was organized around the theme of how architecture impacts collective behavior. As its title... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
descriptions of empirical research to provide their key insights in everyday language. For example, visitors to the site can learn about various audit approaches that are more or less effective under... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com,” co-written with Qihong Liu, an associate professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma. In June 2013, Zhu and Liu identified 163,853 products for sale by third-party retailers via... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
empirical settings. The organic cluster identification methodology we propose is especially useful when researchers work in global settings where data available at different geographic units complicates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
portfolio," says Stuart. "All that is premised on the coordinating role of the corporate headquarters and corporate staff positions." The key word is theoretically. As Stuart explains, there is actually very little View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and Modules, HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Rucker Abstract—Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about when and why companies merge or acquire other firms—and how... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
vague, unrealistically grandiose goals. The research also revealed ways in which top managers can avoid these traps. Read the paper: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Governance/Leadership/How_leaders_kill_meaning_at_work_2910 Fiduciary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
central component of the program is the JD/MBA seminar, which students take in their third or fourth year. In the seminar, students present for an hour on a topic of their choice, drawing on past experiences, course learnings, and View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
setting or a more general oligopoly context. Most past research has found two-part tariffs to be optimal in many settings. More recent research has begun to investigate the limits of such optimality and when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
by Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt, considered whether firms should and do engage extensively in CSR. This essay, in other words, considered empirical evidence. Reinhardt found that relatively few firms do engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
is taught should be grounded in research. Even for teachers who do relatively little leadership research, it is still assumed that what they convey to students represents the most important research relevant to the field. Moreover, when... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace