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- 26 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance
- 2024
- Working Paper
Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous
By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay
How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details
Dhaliwal, Nathan, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat, and Pat Barclay. "Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous." Working Paper, August 2024.
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Mikes, Anette. "The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-114, May 2014.
- Article
Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software
MacCormack, Alan, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak. "Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis." Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012): 1309–1324.
- Web
Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details
- January 2016 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future
By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
Cyberdyne Inc. was a Japanese technology venture that wanted to commercialize a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL was a robotic exoskeleton system for people who had difficulty walking due to nervous system disabilities resulting from stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI),... View Details
Keywords: Go-to-market Strategy; Pricing; Sales Channel; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Sales; Distribution; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Chung, Doug J., and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future." Harvard Business School Case 516-072, January 2016. (Revised July 2018.)
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
Yella Wood. He also created the "Yella Fella," a crime-fighting cowboy that Rane portrayed in television commercials. Each ad, broadcast across the South, functioned as a mini-episode. Each of the four seasons ended on a cliffhanger, to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people, annually, in their sales View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk management functions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture
By: Ranjay Gulati
Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
Gulati, Ranjay. "Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture." Harvard Business School Case 409-061, January 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
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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
- 25 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!
Work degree and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She oversees the various programs and functions of the Support Services team and provides information to students on mental... 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
- 11 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital
Keywords: by Charles C.Y. Wang
- Research Summary
Multilateral Bankruptcy Rules
By: Jerry R. Green
A classic problem in economics is the selection of a bankruptcy rule with good normative properties. The problem as usually specified is given by the “estate” E which is to be divided among the “claims” c= (c1,... View Details
- February 2008
- Supplement
Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil
Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Godes, David B. "Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-050, February 2008.
- February 2008
- Supplement
Avaya (B)
Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Godes, David B. "Avaya (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-049, February 2008.
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
amounts of data, which in turn fuels AI, which can in turn make the digital products smarter. The challenges include internal education around data, systems modernization, and privacy concerns, while the opportunity is the creation of a value-producing business View Details