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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

even successful people fail to notice the absence of critical and readily available information in their environment due to the human tendency to focus on a limited set of information. This work is still in its formative stages, and I... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

encountered, it recalibrated, iteratively creating continuity and restoring order. Daini survived the crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. October 2014 Article The Transparency Trap By: Ethan Bernstein To get people to be more... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

responses. Response modules might include: facility lockdown, police or fire response, evacuation, isolation (preventing people from entering facilities), medical containment (response to significant epidemic), grief management, as well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

forthcoming Management Science Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs By: Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati Abstract—Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

optimizing and trying to buy the best, can often miss out on what actually is going to make them happy. JF: Do people manage to close that gap? What does that work look like? RG: Often it's just something... View Details

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Press / Media

By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

July 2000 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Dawn Riley at America True (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Dawn Riley is the CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup. Over three years, based on her vision for America True, she built the syndicate from scratch, bringing on investors and sponsors, designing and building a boat, and... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Gender; Business Startups; North and Central America; New Zealand; San Francisco

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01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

says. “What’s important is how you take charge of your career.” Now, Tanaka is helping others take charge. In March 2023, she became the country manager of LinkedIn Japan. Though the professional networking platform opened its first... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

between right and wrong is not sufficient to avoid falling into the behavioral traps people can face when under pressure to succeed. Answering a single question, Madoff exhibits several all-too-familiar cognitive biases, psychological... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

implicit, sometimes explicit, belief that business and health care do not mix. I think what people mean when they express this belief is that the profit motive in health care bothers them. Yet business schools think about View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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Skydeck - Alumni

underemployed. In this excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, Stephen Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root causes of this trend—and what policymakers and the private sector can do to address it. How the Insurance Industry Can Weather... View Details

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

Aadhaar to the creation of bank accounts," Raina explains. "It is envisaged that Aadhaar will be used in a variety of other ways to reduce criminal diversion of government subsidies, lessen the burden on taxpayers, and open up food and other services to the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

returns in excess of the cost of capital. When Dunlap took over the leadership of the company, he immediately announced and implemented a reduction of 11,000 people at both the management and working levels.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. "If you're one of them and you're not getting a kidney, you should be able to understand why and what the criteria are." A Long Line About 500,000 View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

it helps people deal with the great challenges offered by technological innovations and the emergence of the new economy," Mills proclaims. Although those challenges are still out there, today they don't seem to be engulfing us quite... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

also preferred to recruit people with an engineering or technical background, while traditionally British managers were chosen on the basis of "character." The firms and entrepreneurs of the United... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

that data feed? An email management system? A forecasting model? A supply-chain management system? “One of the great things AI can do is help you better manage your business at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

class did you read this case?In Managing Service Operations during my EC year with Professor Ryan Buell. How do you see yourself applying the lessons from this case in your future endeavors?My post-graduation focus is on growing and... View Details

23 Jan 2024
Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

piece of paper, or likely even for a ticket to a local minor league baseball game (which is more or less a deed to a seat). But plenty of people would pay that much for the deed to a house.* *Technically, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate

Keywords: by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson

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