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  • 14 Dec 2021
  • News

New Possibilities: J.P. Morgan NextList 2022

  • 07 Nov 2017
  • News

Best Business Books 2017: Narratives

  • January 2009 (Revised November 2009)
  • Background Note

Adult Life Stages

By: John A. Davis
This note describes basic concepts of adult life stage theory and summarizes Daniel Levinson's research findings on the adult development of men and women. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Gender
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  • 29 May 2013
  • News

Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 09 Dec 2016
  • News

Criminal business executives just don’t get why they’re in jail

  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

scanrail SUMMING UP: Is Modern Monetary Theory a Fancy Term for Today’s Reality? Modern monetary theory (MMT) is “silly thinking” (Andy), “a totally unproven theory” (Alex), a “free lunch” (John), and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

great principles in economics: the concept of comparative advantage and how it influences everything from nations to house painters. —Sean Silverthorne book excerpt A Brief Aside On The Theory View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

    Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Survey

    In this chapter, we survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to... View Details

    • 04 Aug 2021
    • News

    How to Cultivate Psychological Safety, and Why it Matters

    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    When the Punishment Must Fit the Crime: Remarks on the Failure of Simple Penal Codes in Extensive-Form Games.

    By: Lucy White, George J. Mailath and Volker Nocke
    Keywords: Game Theory; Law Enforcement; Failure
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    • 07 Mar 2019
    • News

    It’s All About Mindset — Hubert Joly, CEO Best Buy

    • 05 Jun 2020
    • News

    Boston business leaders: Seize this moment and invest in Black businesses

    • June 2010
    • Article

    What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

    By: Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
    Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise coagglomeration indices for US manufacturing industries from the Economic... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Economics; Industry Clusters; Analytics and Data Science; Labor; Theory; Goods and Commodities; United States; United Kingdom
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    • October 2000
    • Case

    GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership Multimedia Case

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Meg Wozny
    General Electric is faced with Welch's impending retirement, and the question on many minds is whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch era. After briefly describing GE's heritage and Welch's transformation of the... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Dr. Logg studies how people can improve the accuracy of their judgments and decisions. Her main program of work examines when people are most likely to leverage the power of algorithms to improve their accuracy. Research on what she calls “theory of machine” is... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Judgment; Algorithms; Advice Taking
    • Research Summary

    Understanding Human Nature

    By: Nitin Nohria
    Recent advances in biological sciences provide great insights into the workings of the human brain and thereby into human nature. Drawing upon this research, my colleague Paul Lawrence and I propose a neo-Darwinian theory of human motivation based on four basic human... View Details
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Catering through Nominal Share Prices

    By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
    We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices.  The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of time-varying catering... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Stock Shares; Investment; Investment Return; Price; Theory; Valuation
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    • 22 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

    an "invisible hand" that was largely beyond the control of individual firms. Competitive theory has been advanced at Harvard Business School, shown here under construction. The scope for strategy... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
    • Research Summary

    By: Boris Groysberg

    Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related... View Details