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    The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

    This HBS working paper focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes data from 75 field studies to illustrate how managers adjust span of accountability and span of control to... View Details

    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    conditions. While such reviews are published anonymously, Zhang cross-referenced the data with a government database from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that lists the racial percentages of employees at all US companies with... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Research Summary

    Strategic Human Capital

    My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

    • Teaching Interest

    Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

    Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

    • November 1993
    • Case

    Edgar J. Scherick Associates

    Edgar Scherick, a leading television movie producer, must determine whether fact-based movies garner higher Nielsen ratings than fictional movies. Scherick has data for all 1992 TV movies broadcast on major networks. Ultimately, Scherick must decide whether it is... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Film Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 11 Nov 2010
    • News

    The Jazz Process: Diversity Breeds Success

    • Article

    Fast Subset Scan for Multivariate Spatial Biosurveillance

    By: Daniel B. Neill, Edward McFowland III and Huanian Zheng
    We extend the recently proposed ‘fast subset scan’ framework from univariate to multivariate data, enabling computationally efficient detection of irregular space-time clusters even when the numbers of spatial locations and data streams are large. These fast algorithms... View Details
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    • September–October 2016
    • Article

    What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior executive, you can worry all you want about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Management Teams
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    • October 1981 (Revised June 1985)
    • Case

    Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (A)

    The Vicks Health Care Division lacks a solid form entry in the OTC colds care category and has developed a "me-too" product. The main issues are whether there is an opportunity for the product, and, if so, how it should be positioned. Main teaching objectives are to... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Market Participation; Health Industry
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    • 10 May 2021
    • News

    Page: A GED for College? Not as Far-Fetched As It Sounds

    • 16 Jan 2020
    • News

    5 Ways Office Design Helps Your Company Navigate Change

    • 29 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • December 2013
    • Article

    How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

    By: David A. Garvin
    High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Managing Change; Organizational Change; Analytics; Management; Leadership; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management
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    • 05 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 5, 2006

      Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry R&D Survey conducted by the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods

    By: Frank Nagle
    As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Behavioral Empirics and Field Experiments

    By: Maria Ibanez and Bradley R. Staats
    As the study of behavioral operations has continued to grow, an increasing number of researchers are turning to the field (e.g., conducting observational studies or natural or field experiments) to push deeper in order to find the answers to relevant behavioral... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Empirical Operations; Empirical Operations Management; Field Experiments; Behavior; Operations; Management; Research
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      Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

       

      Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market... View Details
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      Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

      in Africa, Asia, and Latin America throughout recent decades. Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Because AI is only half the answer, the Digital Data Design Institute’s (D^3) global leaders in... View Details
      • 05 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

      turns out, Eli Lilly’s initial failure with Alimta led the drugmaker to a solution. By carefully examining the data from the clinical trials, scientists found that the drug worked for some patients, but not others—and those patients that... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding

        Jeffrey F. Rayport

        Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details