Publications

December 1985
Article

An Empirical Analysis of the Interfirm Equity Investment Process

By: W. Mikkelson and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Theory; Equity; Investment

June 1986
Article

A Supergame Theoretic Model of Price Wars During Booms

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Game Theory; Price

2010
Working Paper

Will I Stay or Will I Go?: Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman

We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity research, we theorize that social cohesion (Tyler, 1999; Hogg and Terry, 2000) and social... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Ethnicity; Race; Groups and Teams; Identity; Resignation and Termination; Gender; Cooperation

winter 2007
Article

The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

By: Josh Lerner, Benjamin Chiao and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Standards; Organizations; Theory

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

described the register for the first time and explained how it would prevent theft and give an accurate account of the day's receipts. The goal of this stage was to schedule a demonstration View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

October 2007
Article

A Feminist Analysis of Organizational Research on Sex Differences

By: Robin Ely and Irene Padavic

Keywords: Research; Organizations; Theory; Gender

01 Oct 1996
News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

the newest member of the Service Management unit, joined the faculty last year. In research that covers human resources and operations management, she has studied the impact of processes on organizations.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

were the results of two foundation-sponsored studies of management education in the 1950's that argued for greater emphasis on the development of measures and exploration View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

April 2001
Article

Academic-Practitioner Collaboration in Management Research: A Case of Cross-Profession Collaboration

By: T. M. Amabile, C. Patterson, Jennifer Mueller, T. Wojcik, P. Odomirok, M. Marsh and S. Kramer

We present a case of academic-practitioner research collaboration to illuminate three potential determinants of the success of such cross-profession collaborations: collaborative team characteristics, collaboration environment characteristics, and collaboration... View Details

Keywords: Research; Cases; Analytics and Data Science; Theory

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria

How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business School professor John... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

27 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in US Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions

Keywords: by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl

15 Nov 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study

Keywords: by Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels & Peter Werner

2020
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Value Structure Mapping; Value Capture; Information Technology; Organizations; Strategy; Value Creation

SSRN

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Their theories provide a more powerful set of tools for examining the history of entrepreneurship than any that were available to the pioneering business historians in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

2024
Conference Paper

Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Explanations of Large Language Models

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sree Harsha Tanneru and Chirag Agarwal

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as powerful tools for several high-stakes natural language processing (NLP) applications. Recent prompting works claim to elicit intermediate reasoning steps and key tokens that serve as proxy explanations for LLM... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning