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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via coupled search processes. At... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 1996
- Article
Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth
By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
Pratt, John W., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth." Journal of Political Economy 104 (August 1996): 747–763.
- Article
A New Interpretation of the F Statistic
By: John W. Pratt and Robert Schlaifer
Pratt, John W., and Robert Schlaifer. "A New Interpretation of the F Statistic." American Statistician 52, no. 2 (May 1998): 141–143.
- 1991
- Book
Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business
By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Organizational Structure
Pratt, John W. and Richard Zeckhauser, eds. Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business. Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
- 1997
- Article
Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions
By: John W. Pratt and Mark J. Machina
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
Pratt, John W., and Mark J. Machina. "Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 14 (1997): 103–127.
- January 1976
- Background Note
Managing Change, Part I: The Problem of Resistance
By: John P. Kotter and Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords: Change Management
Kotter, John P., and Jay W. Lorsch. "Managing Change, Part I: The Problem of Resistance." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-102, January 1976.
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
MNEs Author:Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:In Foreign Direct Investments, Location and Competitiveness. Vol. 2, edited by John Dunning and Philippe Gugler. Progress in International Business Research. Oxford: Elsevier, 2007 Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 23, 2018
- Article
Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost
By: Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley
Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management
French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost." NEJM Catalyst (August 23, 2018).
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
2004 election when Republican George W. Bush emerged victorious. Chung says that had Democratic candidate John Kerry received more advertising from outside political groups, the election would have ended up... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2008
- Working Paper
Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division
By: John W. Pratt
Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else. The "price" procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash... View Details
Pratt, John W. "Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-094, May 2008.
- Article
How Many Balance Functions Does It Take To Determine A Utility Function?
By: John W. Pratt
Pratt, John W. "How Many Balance Functions Does It Take To Determine A Utility Function?" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 31, no. 2 (September 2005): 109–127. (Article in Honor of Paul Samuelson's 90th Birthday.)
- September 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Unbanklike Experimentation
By: Ryan W. Buell and Leslie K. John
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Unbanklike Experimentation (619-018). In August 2017,... View Details
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Unbanklike Experimentation (619-018). In August 2017,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691149135/ The Organization of Firms Across Countries Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Cultural Metacognition & Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors: Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris, and Shira Mor Abstract We propose that managers' awareness of their own and others' cultural assumptions (cultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
process and Davis's creative leadership and ability to cultivate talent (such as that of saxophonist John Coltrane)—many of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century came out of the informal "Miles Davis University." Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November–December 2020
- Article
Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency
By: Bhavya Mohan, Ryan W. Buell and Leslie K. John
Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a good to consumers. However, we provide evidence of when and why doing so can increase consumers’ purchase interest. Specifically, building on the psychology of disclosure and trust, we posit that... View Details
Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John. "Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency." Special Issue on Marketing Science and Field Experiments. Marketing Science 39, no. 6 (November–December 2020): 1105–1121.
- 2008
- Book
Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory
By: John W. Pratt, Howard Raiffa and Robert Schlaifer
- 1995
- Book
Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory
By: John W. Pratt, Howard Raiffa and Robert Schlaifer
Pratt, John W., Howard Raiffa, and Robert Schlaifer. Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory. MIT Press, 1995.
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure By: Kayser, Susan A., John W. Maxwell, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—To assess and manage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne