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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 07 Dec 2016
    • HBS Case

    Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

    Studies also show millennials are financially responsible, with two-thirds of them putting more than 5 percent of their paychecks into savings, the highest rate of savings of any current generation. “Having gone through the Great... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 17 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 17

    expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

    passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    HBS - The year in Review

    of Harvard Business School and a window into research and research support at the School, the case method, and the classroom experience. Teaching faculty join study groups and practice preparing and opening... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Engaging Students More Deeply

    array of digital offerings, including multimedia cases, video-only cases, and print cases with video supplements—has continued to increase every year since, with more than three dozen underway this year alone. “The View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Web

    The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    division of HBS under Dean Gay. Dean Donham, who followed Gay, directed the Bureau to research and write case studies for use in the School’s curriculum. The Bureau’s early industrial research View Details
    • 07 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 7

      PublicationsTransnational Management: Text, Cases and Readings in Cross-Border Management Authors:Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish Publication:Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2011 Abstract Transnational Management focuses on the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

    and can lead to severe consequences. In the case of negotiations, which are information-dependent, deception can substantially change the outcome. Paltering differs from two other deceptive practices: Lying by commission entails the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • November 5, 2024
    • Article

    The International Empirics of Management

    By: Daniela Scur, Scott Ohlmacher, John Van Reenen, Morten Bennedsen, Nick Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Lucia Foster, Jesse Groenewegen, Arti Grover, Sjoerd Hardeman, Leonardo Iacovone, Ryo Kambayashi, Marie-Christine Laible, Renata Lemos, Hongbin Li, Andrea Linarello, Mika Maliranta, Denis Medvedev, Charlotte Meng, John Miles Touya, Natalia Mandirola, Roope Ohlsbom, Atsushi Ohyama, Megha Patnaik, Mariana Pereira-López, Raffaella Sadun, Tatsuro Senga, Franklin Qian and Florian Zimmermann
    A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP. Although social scientists have long... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Productivity; Economy; Management Practices and Processes
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    Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses

    By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
    Keywords: Predictive Models; Decision Making; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen

    This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details

    Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 20 Oct 2019
    • News

    U.S. Business Schools Realize ESG is no Fad but Part of Long-Term Trend

    • 07 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

    that those saying they were passionate after displaying distress were viewed as more competent. They also were more likely to be hired and chosen as collaborators. “Saying you’re emotional is about you, whereas saying you’re passionate is about what the situation is”... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • 2022
    • Article

    Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations

    By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods; Research; Analytics and Data Science
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    • March 2020
    • Article

    Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture

    By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
    It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless... View Details
    Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems-psychodynamic Theory; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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      Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

      Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
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      Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

      students of learning by the case method. An approach to studying a case, individually or as a group member, for classroom discussion is outlined. Also summarizes the basic characteristics of a View Details
      • 23 Jan 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: January 23, 2008

        Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Jul 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: July 20

      Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace