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  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

functions impacted by a single issue, can be used as needed to facilitate rapid decisions. Many companies measure strategy execution with KPIs assessed annually or maybe quarterly. In times of crisis, consider assessing more frequently.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    and how to sustain competitive advantage. How to generate superior value for customers by designing the optimum configuration of the product mix and functional activities. How to balance the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic... View Details
    • January 1987
    • Article

    Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

    By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
    When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information
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    • 18 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch & David J. Collis
    • 2019
    • Article

    An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning

    By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
    Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing false positive rates across... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    YouTube’s $28.8 billion. It will probably not be able to command that kind of revenue without going outside its present niche. “TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its billion users to add... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
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    Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the policy process. They control different policy tools (e.g., legal, budget) and perform different functions (e.g., creating laws, designing programs). Clarifying the roles and responsibilities of different levels of government is... View Details
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    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    function and can be used to assess, evaluate, and strategize your organization's financial health. A finance course will teach you the key levers that drive your company's performance and cover topics such as cash flow , value creation ,... View Details
    • 08 Dec 2021
    • Blog Post

    The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

    for ‘building companies.’ Having spent decades focusing on the molecular level of a problem, being able to strategize at a high level and plan out 1-,3-, 5-year roadmaps is an exciting change,” Memme said. “While we don’t generally play an operational role in the... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

    By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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    Research Resources - Doctoral

    include, but are not limited to data sourcing and purchasing, locating data, finding articles, managing citations, creating charts and graphs for papers or presentations, utilizing Baker Library’s databases, diving deeply into Excel’s View Details
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    Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    1933, Mayo published The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . Modern society, he wrote, had destroyed “the belief of the individual in his social function and solidarity with the group.” 11 It would be up to an administrative... View Details
    • 10 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

    it’s important to use these different lenses to fully embrace all the learnings that came from your journey. What specific skills have you developed or mastered? Consider all functions within an organization—financial, sales, product,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking the Code of Change

    reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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    About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    September 2010. Nancy is the point person for all center scheduling and direct service coordinating; she oversees the administrative functions for the center, and assists with project work. Nancy's previous careers include theatrical... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    Edmondson, who chairs the Doctoral Programs and teaches in the Technology and Operations Management unit. "To cite one example, former HBS doctoral student Jim Detert and I interviewed some 200 people of all ranks and functions in a... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Drop Everything, Read This

    The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    The Exercise and Development of Leadership

    My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details