Management Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

more productive." [New CEO] Greg Dyke virtually eliminated consultants at the BBC to force managers to think for themselves.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter Invensys's leadership team acted on this theory by... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Management; Management

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the Kellogg Graduate School of View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive Course Number 1507 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will focus... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Books

think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

theory in our careers. We choose theories for the course based on their utility in answering some important questions for managers. Educational Objectives: The course aspires to teach students to be a better... View Details

January 2014
Article

Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization

By: Dan Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis

This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto eﬃciency in the context of the popular robust optimization (RO) methodology for linear optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the... View Details

Keywords: Robust Optimization; Pareto Optimality; Resource Allocation; Game Theory

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05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

at managing waiting, having long since concluded that guests to its theme parks spend far more time waiting than participating in various activities. Guests are willing to wait longer when they are diverted or entertained, when they know... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2008
News

No Pulp Fiction Allowed

theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial... View Details

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

whether people will let him cut in line at the airport for a $10 bribe. These experiments are proving integral in learning not only what makes people tick but also how that matters for business. "Over the last decade, scholars and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani & Michael E. Menietti.

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

says. "Their advice reflected that." Corporate Field Studies Zhang and her faculty advisors hope to study the effects of rediscovery in a corporate setting, where mentorship and training programs are often integral to everyday operations. "We'd love to understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

January 1994
Article

Salesforce Compensation Plans: Managerial Insights from Recent Theoretical Developments

By: R. Lal

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Management; Theory

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19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Christopher J. Malloy, along with University of Chicago colleague Andrea Frazzini, investigated the ties between more than 1,800 sell-side analysts and the management of public firms, and the subsequent performance of stock... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

outlines—the “theory of jobs to be done”—and how that concept might play out in the auto industry. —Dan Morrell Your theory essentially reframes how managers think about their products or services—as a sort... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

formula, it becomes possible to construct a portfolio that is virtually risk-free. Merton said that since his theory was introduced, financial managers have realized that it could be applied to a wide range... View Details

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

and policy leaders to discuss what companies are doing—and should be doing—to address climate change. On “Managing the Future of Work,” Joe Fuller, Professor of Management Practice, and Bill Kerr, the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff-MBA Class of... View Details

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