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  • February 1994
  • Case

Project Ghost Busters (A)

Describes a field study project undertaken by four students, attacking a specific quality problem in an auto assembly plant. How should they approach this problem to reduce its frequency by 50%? How should they manage this team project to get the most out of all... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Production; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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Mishina, Kazuhiro. "Project Ghost Busters (A)." Harvard Business School Case 694-066, February 1994.
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In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.

In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to... View Details
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In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course. In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to Sao Paolo, Brazil as part of the FIELD 2 Global Immersion program, also a... View Details
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Great Theorems of Microeconomic Theory

By: Jerry R. Green
This course covers the field of microeconomics as seen through the lens of the "great theorems" that have determined its evolution since WWII. During that time period the entire field of economics has changed. It is now described in terms of advanced mathematics, much... View Details
  • 2023
  • Book

How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations

By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
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Lorsch, Jay W. How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations. Business Expert Press, 2023.
  • July 2018
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Tina Xu
We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Venturing; Personality Traits; Characteristics; Big-5; Risk Attitudes; Goals; Skills; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Goals and Objectives; Competency and Skills; Success; Demographics; Research
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Tina Xu. "Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature." Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship 14, no. 3 (July 2018): 279–356.
  • 20 Jun 2018
  • News

Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks

    Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

    Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

    By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
    Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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    Bendersky, Corinne, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-044, December 2007.
    • 13 Apr 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Population Interference in Panel Experiments

    Keywords: by Iavor I. Bojinov, Kevin Wu Han, and Guillaume Basse
    • 09 Mar 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Exploring the Relationship Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case

    Keywords: by Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan
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    Dealing with Hard Bargainers

    By: James K. Sebenius
    In this line of research, I have been developing effective approaches to negotiating 1) with hard bargainers, 2) in difficult situations, and 3) from positions of perceived weakness. Through field study and theoretical inquiry, I have been developing classes of moves,... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    When Does Gamified Training Improve Performance? The Roles of Office and Leader Engagement

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Wei Cai and Tatiana Sandino
    Gamified training is a novel management control system in which companies use gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training using data from a natural field... View Details
    Keywords: Gamified Training; Management Control Systems; Employee Engagement; Employees; Learning; Training; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
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    Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino. "When Does Gamified Training Improve Performance? The Roles of Office and Leader Engagement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-101, March 2019. (Revised October 2023.)

      Summer R. Jackson

      Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer... View Details

      • 11 Apr 2014
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      Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance

      Keywords: by Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano & Bradley Staats

        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

        • 12 Mar 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

        research into this emerging field and its implications for executives. Sean Silverthorne: How did you get interested in studying multi- and two-sided platforms? Is this a new area of research? Andrei Hagiu:... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

          Lumumba B. Seegars

          Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.

          Professor Seegars... View Details

          • 2018
          • Chapter

          Historical Political Economy

          By: Sophus A. Reinert
          This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, while boldly gesturing... View Details
          Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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          Reinert, Sophus A. "Historical Political Economy." Chap. 5 in The Palgrave Handbook of Political Economy, edited by Ivano Cardinale and Roberto Scazzieri, 133–169. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
          • 16 Jun 2021
          • News

          Government Creates Online Repository of Local and Global Education Courses

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