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- 27 Sep 2012
- News
Guanxi or关系: one word, many interpretations
- 27 Aug 2013
- News
The Global Dominance of ESPN
Roberto Verganti
Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the
- August 2018
- Article
Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products
By: Goran Calic and Sébastien Hélie
Paradoxes are an unavoidable part of work life. The unusualness of attempting to simultaneously satisfy contradictory imperatives can result in creative outcomes that simultaneously satisfy both imperatives by inducing search for, and selection of, novel and useful... View Details
Calic, Goran, and Sébastien Hélie. "Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products." Art. 1489. Frontiers in Psychology 9 (August 2018).
- 2019
- Chapter
A Claim to Own Productive Property
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "A Claim to Own Productive Property." Chap. 10 in Economic Liberties and Human Rights. 1st ed., edited by Jahel Queralt and Bas van der Vossen, 200–218. Political Philosophy for the Real World. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Web
Program Requirements - Doctoral
with the PhD Program Offices during all stages of PhD work. Coursework Two one-term courses in microeconomic theory (Econ 2010 a, b) are required. Two one-term courses in macroeconomics theory (Econ 2010 c,... View Details
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
selections. Pre-approval by the TOM faculty coordinator is required if a student wishes to fulfill these requirements with alternative courses. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Innovation Track requirements : A comprehensive two semester sequence on economic theory:... View Details
Derek C. M. van Bever
Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details
Peter Tufano
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details
Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
- 2024
- Book
Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Research Summary
The Impact of ABC on Managerial Decisions
In this type of research, Ratna Sarkar seeks to determine whether, in fact, new cost systems such as ABC (Activity Based Costing) have a measurable effect on managerial decisions regarding product and customer mix.
The theory of ABC is now academically established,... View Details
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Fast Retailing
I am conducting research on Fast Retailing, which is a holding company in Japan best know for its UNIQLO and THEORY brands. The company is going global in a big way and wants to be the No. 1 apparel company in the world, surpassing H&M, Zara, and GAP... View Details
- August 2023
- Article
Impact of Social Needs Case Management on Use of Medical and Behavioral Health Services: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
By: Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo, Margae Knox, Daniel M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Hernandez and Amanda L. Brewster
Social needs case management is an increasingly common strategy used by health care organizations to address integrated health and social needs. These programs connect patients to resources such as food assistance, housing, transportation, or income benefits, in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Programs; Human Needs; Welfare; Health Industry; California
Fleming, Mark D., Crystal Guo, Margae Knox, Daniel M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, and Amanda L. Brewster. "Impact of Social Needs Case Management on Use of Medical and Behavioral Health Services: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial." Annals of Internal Medicine 176, no. 8 (August 2023): 1139–1141.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and Georgios Serafeim
We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct and they had left the organization... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Restatements; Stigma; Financial Misconduct; Compensation and Benefits; Crime and Corruption; Employees
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Georgios Serafeim. "Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?" Working Paper, November 2017.
- April 2020
- Article
Designs for Estimating the Treatment Effect in Networks with Interference
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Natesh S. Pillai and Alexander Volfovsky
In this paper, we introduce new, easily implementable designs for drawing causal inference from randomized experiments on networks with interference. Inspired by the idea of matching in observational studies, we introduce the notion of considering a treatment... View Details
Keywords: Experimental Design; Network Inference; Neyman Estimator; Symmetric Interference Model; Homophily
Jagadeesan, Ravi, Natesh S. Pillai, and Alexander Volfovsky. "Designs for Estimating the Treatment Effect in Networks with Interference." Annals of Statistics 48, no. 2 (April 2020): 679–712.
- 2013
- Book
The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Pernille Røge
This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences of early modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- September 2008
- Article
Let Disruption Fix Education
By: Henry Eyring and Renee Hopkins Callahan
Eyring and Hopkins Callahan apply Clayton Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation to Higher Education. The Spellings' Commission's 2006 report cited rising costs, lack of access, and a rift between output and the average stakeholder's needs in U.S. Higher... View Details
Eyring, Henry, and Renee Hopkins Callahan. "Let Disruption Fix Education." Art. 1. Strategy & Innovation 6, no. 6 (September 2008): 1–6. (Feature Article.)
- May 2014
- Article
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence... View Details
Keywords: Conflict; Violence; Political Turmoil; Civil Unrest; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Balance and Stability; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Planning; Colombia
Hiatt, Shon R., and Wesley Sine. "Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 5 (May 2014): 773–785.
- 2008
- Chapter
Cross-cultural Research in Organizational Behavior
By: Heidi K. Gardner and P. Christopher Earley
Globalization and regionalization of business have increasingly compelled researchers to integrate the concept of cultural variation into business research and practice. This chapter addresses how culture links to organizational phenomena at the individual, group, and... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Organizational Culture; Research; Behavior; Culture
Gardner, Heidi K., and P. Christopher Earley. "Cross-cultural Research in Organizational Behavior." In The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior. 2 vols. Edited by C.L. Cooper, J. Barling, and S. Clegg. Sage Publications, 2008.
- March 2009
- Article
Trading Restrictions and Stock Prices
By: Robin Greenwood
Firms can manipulate their stock price by limiting the ability of their investors to sell. I examine a series of corporate events in Japan in which firms actively reduced their float—the fraction of shares available to trade—for periods of one to three months, locking... View Details
Greenwood, Robin. "Trading Restrictions and Stock Prices." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 3 (March 2009): 509–539.