Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

the time to learn their new company's management processes." Stephen Basikoti put it this way: "The fact that some transplanted leaders do not succeed does not negate the fact that management... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

one continual change initiative. Maybe it's a relief to know that only a few of these efforts will actually be carried through to completion, but that knowledge doesn't do much for morale. Change fatigue is rampant, and it's exacerbated... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

04 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

Research Summary

Selective Attention and Learning

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

What do we notice, and how does this affect what we learn? Standard economic models of learning ignore memory by assuming that we remember everything. But there is growing recognition that memory is imperfect. Further, memory imperfections do not stem from limited... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

What Do CEOs Do?

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun

December 1, 2021
Article

Do You Know How Your Teams Get Work Done?

By: Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das, Scott Duke Kominers, Arjun Narayan, Suraj Srinivasan, Tarun Khanna and Kartik Hosanagar

In a research study at four Fortune 500 companies, when managers were asked about their teams’ work, on average they either did not know or could not remember 60% of the work their teams do. This is a major problem because it can lead to unrealistic digital... View Details

Keywords: Leading Teams; Work Recall Gap; Machine Learning; Algorithms; Groups and Teams; Management; Technological Innovation

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19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

a mutual desire to better understand the phenomena of upward voice, leadership behavior, and organizational learning processes and the organizations' desire to improve its capacity to learn and prosper View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

empirically predicted with a machine learning model, suggests work by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and collaborators. “Our research represents the first empirical... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

02 Aug 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research

Keywords: by Mike Horia Teodorescu

2020
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Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used as an observation for further inductive or abductive research, but should not be treated as the result of a... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Theory Building; Induction; Decision Trees; Random Forests; K-nearest Neighbors; Neural Network; P-hacking; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis

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12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

constructive among the business community; and you had it being a "stand with the poor" among the religious community. Well, both views are important, we do need to stand with the poor; but if you can't imagine any kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

consumers better off by providing greater variety, or do they lose out because other grocery stores then increase their prices?" Ngwe's research is helping lift the veil on the sometimes mysterious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail

08 Oct 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

to the point where analysts can “fingerprint” particular authors by the probability of how they use connecting words like “the,” “and,” and “that.” More recently, machine learning has moved into the realm of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

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Making Machine Learning Models Fair

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

The goal of this research direction is to ensure that the machine learning models we build and deploy do not discriminate against individuals from minority groups. View Details

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

tax policy. Of course, these issues have been faced by human society forever, and resolving them with a definitive answer is impossible. My research, rather than trying to decide which idea of justice is "right," seeks to capture the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

for shares. These include requiring participating preferred with a high cumulative dividend, redemption rights exercisable after only several years, and ratchet anti-dilution protection with no cap. One must ask, what's the reputation of this firm? View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

been core to what they do forever.” GOTSCH: “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money. Technology is core to what they do, and it has been core to what they do... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

Already a leader in the edtech space since its 2008 launch, Khan Academy was now one of the first edtech organizations to embrace generative artificial intelligence ("genAI"). In March 2023, Khan Academy began beta testing Khanmigo, a genAI “guide” and tutor built with... View Details