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- 2025
- Working Paper
Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Scott Kostyshak and Perihan O. Saygin
We use a controlled experiment to study how information acquisition impacts candidate evaluations. We provide evaluators with group-level information on performance and the opportunity to acquire additional, individual-level performance information before making a... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Performance Evaluation
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Scott Kostyshak, and Perihan O. Saygin. "Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions." Working Paper, February 2025.
- April 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Information Technology at COSCO
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and David Lane
Describes the current status of IT applications at the second largest container shipping company in the world: China-based COSCO. Describes the challenges the company has faced in dealing with its development and shows a series of organizational and application... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Shipping Industry; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Guoqing Chen, and David Lane. "Information Technology at COSCO." Harvard Business School Case 305-080, April 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
- Article
Value of Information with Sequential Futures Markets
By: Jerry R. Green
The effects of an improvement in information on the efficiency of risk-bearing are studied under various systems of incomplete markets. With sequential futures markets for uncontingent delivery, the welfare effects are indeterminate in sign, except under special... View Details
Green, Jerry R. "Value of Information with Sequential Futures Markets." Econometrica 49, no. 2 (March 1981): 335–358.
- summer 1994
- Article
Boards Need Better Information
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Boards Need Better Information." Directors & Boards 18, no. 4 (summer 1994): 31–33.
- Research Summary
Information and Control in Modern Manufacturing
Ratna Sarkar's research in management accounting focuses on the effect of information and incentives on performance. She has investigated the role of worker empowerment, training and inventory in modern manufacturing settings and her findings suggest that these... View Details
- 1975
- Book
The Information Systems Handbook
By: F. W. McFarlan and R. L. Nolan
Keywords: Information Management
McFarlan, F. W. and R. L. Nolan, eds. The Information Systems Handbook. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1975.
- December 2003
- Article
Leveraging Information across Categories
By: Raghu Iyenger, Asim Ansari and Sunil Gupta
Keywords: Information
Iyenger, Raghu, Asim Ansari, and Sunil Gupta. "Leveraging Information across Categories." Quantitative Marketing and Economics 1, no. 4 (December 2003): 425–465.
- February 1995
- Background Note
Health Information Industry Note
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and VJ Pappas
Herzlinger, Regina E., and VJ Pappas. "Health Information Industry Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-206, February 1995.
- 1 Jan 1991
- Conference Presentation
Information Technology and Globalization
By: L. M. Applegate and R. O. Mason
- August 1986 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Honeywell Information Systems (B)
Corey, E. Raymond. "Honeywell Information Systems (B)." Harvard Business School Case 587-072, August 1986. (Revised May 1989.)
- March 1995 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Information on a SilverPlatter
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Whitney Bower. "Information on a SilverPlatter." Harvard Business School Case 395-136, March 1995. (Revised March 1997.)
- March 1999
- Article
Informal Authority in Organizations
By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
Keywords: Organizations
Baker, George P., Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy. "Informal Authority in Organizations." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 15, no. 1 (March 1999).
- September 1989
- Case
National Credit Information Network
By: F. Warren McFarlan and H. Jeff Smith
McFarlan, F. Warren, and H. Jeff Smith. "National Credit Information Network." Harvard Business School Case 190-043, September 1989.
- October 1987 (Revised February 1988)
- Case
CIGNA Risk Information Services
Vitale, Michael R. "CIGNA Risk Information Services." Harvard Business School Case 188-034, October 1987. (Revised February 1988.)
- Article
Foreclosure with Incomplete Information
By: Lucy White
White, Lucy. "Foreclosure with Incomplete Information." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 16, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 635–682.
- May 1993 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Executone Information Systems, Inc.
Executone has posted low returns in 1992 in the face of intense competition from AT&T and Northern Telecom, its principal rivals. Alan Kessman, president and CEO, is considering whether mid-course adjustments in strategy are necessary in the firm's telecommunications... View Details
McGahan, Anita M., and Sarah C. Mavrinac. "Executone Information Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 793-140, May 1993. (Revised March 1994.)
- October 1983 (Revised July 1984)
- Case
Information Resources, Inc. (B)
The company's plans are revealed. A stock offering has produced $20 million to be used for development. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering
Clarke, Darral G. "Information Resources, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 584-044, October 1983. (Revised July 1984.)
- May 2011
- Article
Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information
By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers.... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 2 (May 2011): 284–303.
- Research Summary
Foreclosure with Incomplete Information
In this paper we investigate the robustness of the widely-used new foreclosure doctrine and its associated welfare implications to the introduction of incomplete information. In particular, we make the realistic assumption that the upstream firm’s marginal cost... View Details
- Research Summary
Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details