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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • April 2019 (Revised January 2022)
    • Case

    Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

    By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
    The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
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    • September 2004
    • Article

    Trust in Agency

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
    Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    they see glimmers of light, and this ultimately sustains them.” How does mechanisms of survival work? Why do so many wisdom traditions converge on this basic paradox? The discipline of survival psychology—the study of how people react in... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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      Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000).  Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of Need for Closure.... View Details

      • 14 Feb 2012
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      First Look: February 14

      Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 18 May 2010
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      First Look: May 18

      role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

      Next, I show that investors also display this biased reaction to news, with stock returns reacting less negatively to negative surprises from male-led companies relative to their female-led peers on earnings announcement days. I then shed light on the underlying View Details
      • September 2011
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      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Eric Lonstein and Stephanie Pokrywa
      Metrology plays a key role in the manufacture of mechanical components. Traditionally it is used extensively in a pre-process stage where a manufacturer does process planning, design, and ramp-up, and in post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality.... View Details
      Keywords: Industry Growth; Forecasting and Prediction; Change Management; Production; Machinery and Machining; Planning; Quality; Competition; Diversification; Technology Adoption; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Manufacturing Industry
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      • 23 Feb 2011
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      leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Aug 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

      Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
      • 13 Mar 2007
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      First Look: March 13, 2007

      Management: Founder Decisions Harvard Business School Case 807-125 Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows that his company must grow... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2014
      • Article

      The Promise of Prediction Contests

      By: Phillip E. Pfeifer, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl
      This article examines the prediction contest as a vehicle for aggregating the opinions of a crowd of experts. After proposing a general definition distinguishing prediction contests from other mechanisms for harnessing the wisdom of crowds, we focus on... View Details
      Keywords: Prediction; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
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      Restructuring JAL

      By: Malcolm Baker, Adi Sunderam, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
      Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy; Costs Of Financial Distress; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan; United States
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      • 11 Jan 2011
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      http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470634251.html Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Publication:Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 Apr 2015
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      First Look: April 28

      http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Strategy - Faculty & Research

      products. Key themes include the tension between growth and profitability, regulatory challenges, and the strategic decisions faced by founder Gregory Krasnov in balancing investor expectations with market realities. The case provides... View Details
      • Web

      Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

      consultant at Deloitte. Nick received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. The couple resides in Indianapolis with their two daughters. F. Steele Blackall III (MBA 1949) and Patricia Blackall Scholarship The... View Details
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      Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

      Technology Industry ; United States ; New York (state, US) Citation Purchase Related Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah Mehta. "Skills-First Hiring at IBM." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-707, October 2024. Strategic View Details
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      host Mike Toffel sits down with Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart of Probable Futures. They discuss how Probable Futures tools are educating decision makers to better understand how their organizations will experience climate change, and... View Details