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      • 2019
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      Daring to Understand and Change Thinking

      By: G. Zaltman
      Jagdish Sheth's many outstanding qualities and contributions to management and society in general share a common theme. He dares to think deeply and challenges his own and others' thoughts. The larger lesson he provides, and the focus of this essay, is the need for... View Details
      Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Change; Management Practices and Processes
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      Zaltman, G. "Daring to Understand and Change Thinking." Chap. 2 in Handbook of Advances in Marketing in an Era of Disruptions: Essays in Honour of Jagdish N. Sheth, edited by Atul Parvatiyar and Rajendra Sisodia. SAGE Publications India, 2019.
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      Maimonides' Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability

      By: Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli, Kyle A. Thomas and Steven Pinker
      Why do people esteem anonymous charitable giving? We connect normative theories of charitability (captured in Maimonides’ Ladder of Charity) with evolutionary theories of partner choice to test predictions on how attributions of charitability are affected by states of... View Details
      Keywords: Charity; Reciprocity; Partner Choice; Common Knowledge; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Knowledge; Perception
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      De Freitas, Julian, Peter DiScioli, Kyle A. Thomas, and Steven Pinker. "Maimonides' Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 1 (January 2019): 158–173.
      • November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
      • Module Note

      Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)

      By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
      This note focuses on managers’ responsibilities—economic, legal, and ethical—to investors. In capitalist and some socialist economies, these responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law... View Details
      Keywords: Responsibilities To Investors; Investors; Responsibility; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management; Ethics
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      Goldberg, Lena G., and Joseph L. Badaracco. "Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 319-066, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
      • November 2018
      • Case

      Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

      By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
      Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details
      Keywords: Family-managed Business; Professionally-run Company; Second-generation; Third-generation; Governance; Governance Changes; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Long-term Sustainability; Conglomerate; Family Business; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Management Succession; Leadership; Transition; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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      Healy, Paul M., and Esel Y. Cekin. "Governance Transition at Anadolu Group." Harvard Business School Case 119-048, November 2018.
      • November 2018 (Revised December 2018)
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      CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence

      By: Vikram S Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers
      In Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in... View Details
      Keywords: Pension Funds; Pension Plan; Asset Allocation; Screening; ESG; Gun Violence; Business and Government Relations; Values and Beliefs; Education Industry; California; United States
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      Gandhi, Vikram S., and Caitlin Reimers. "CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence." Harvard Business School Case 819-079, November 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
      • 2018
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      The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Nicholas Bagley, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
      On the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Research and Development; Investment; Markets; Monopoly
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      Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern. "The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century." Chap. 4 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 97–137. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
      • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
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      Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

      By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
      On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
      Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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      Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephanie Marton. "Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 419-033, October 2018. (Revised August 2023.)
      • October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
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      Beth Israel Deaconess: Consolidating to Strengthen, or to Stave Off, Competition?

      By: Leemore Dafny
      In July 2017, CEO Kevin Tabb of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center announced his plan to consolidate 11 Massachusetts hospitals under a common management structure. These hospitals collectively generated $5 billion in patient revenue and 25% of... View Details
      Keywords: Beth Israel Deaconess; Lahey; Partners; Health Care; Hospitals; Payers; Providers; Anti-trust; Health Care Regulation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Market Design; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Negotiation; Consolidation; Competition; Health Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
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      Dafny, Leemore. "Beth Israel Deaconess: Consolidating to Strengthen, or to Stave Off, Competition?" Harvard Business School Case 319-026, October 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
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      How Index Funds Can Be a Positive Force for Change

      By: George Serafeim
      Keywords: Indexing; Stock Market; Engagement; Activism; Sustainability; Collaboration; Tragedy Of The Commons
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      Serafeim, George. "How Index Funds Can Be a Positive Force for Change." Barron's (October 12, 2018).
      • 2018
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      Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may... View Details
      Keywords: Complementarity
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-036, October 2018.
      • 2018
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      Finance Reading: Corporate Governance

      By: John Coates and Suraj Srinivasan
      Core Curriculum Readings in Finance cover the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks in finance. This reading presents an overview of corporate governance, focusing on for-profit businesses that are privately owned by dispersed investors—that is, not owned by a... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Corporate Governance; For-Profit Firms; Private Ownership; Conflict of Interests
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      Coates, John, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Finance Reading: Corporate Governance." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5209, 2018.
      • September 2018 (Revised April 2019)
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      Sigfox: Building a Global IoT Network

      By: Rajiv Lal, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emilie Billaud
      In 2018, Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, co-founders of the French tech startup Sigfox, reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. Founded in 2009, Sigfox was a company that provided a global connectivity network for devices connected to... View Details
      Keywords: Internet Of Things; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Transition; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; France; Europe
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      Lal, Rajiv, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emilie Billaud. "Sigfox: Building a Global IoT Network." Harvard Business School Case 519-032, September 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
      • September 2018
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      Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management

      By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos
      Although more than 800,000 displaced people arrived in Greece by sea in 2015, fewer than 5 percent applied for asylum in this first country of arrival. Instead, they either traveled northward informally or remained in Greece in legal limbo. The resultant chaotic... View Details
      Keywords: Refugees; Governance Compliance; Knowledge Dissemination; Policy; Crisis Management; Communication; Greece
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      Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management." International Studies Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2018): 671–685.
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      The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration

      By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban
      Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on... View Details
      Keywords: Open Office; Transparency; Collaboration; Collective Intelligence; Workspace; Workspace Design; Architecture; Cubicles; Boundaries; Spatial Boundaries; Human Behavior; Propinquity; Co-location; Interaction; Sociometers; People Analytics; Buildings and Facilities; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology; United States
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      Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephen Turban. "The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration." Art. 239. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 373, no. 1753 (August 19, 2018).
      • July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
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      SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command

      By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
      James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how... View Details
      Keywords: James Geurts; Innovation; Public Entrepreneurship; Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Contests; Prototyping; SOFWERX; Special Operations; SOCOM; Govtech; Procurement; FAR; EZ-Fly; Navy; Department Of Defense; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Acquisition; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
      • 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.
      • June 2018
      • Case

      Burton Sensors, Inc.

      By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
      Burton Sensors presents a realistic situation where a small, rapidly growing, and profitable temperature sensor original equipment manufacturer (OEM) reaches its debt capacity and seeks equity financing to sustain high growth. The president of the company must decide... View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Investment; Financial Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Fruhan, William E., and Wei Wang. "Burton Sensors, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-539, June 2018.
      • June 2018
      • Background Note

      Introduction to Life Settlements

      By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Jiahua Xu
      Life insurance is an asset owned by the majority of American adults (61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance... View Details
      Keywords: Insurance; Assets; Value; Markets; Investment Return
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      Braun, Alexander, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy, and Jiahua Xu. "Introduction to Life Settlements." Harvard Business School Background Note 218-127, June 2018.
      • June 2018
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      Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity

      By: Wenxin Du, Alexander Tepper and Adrien Verdelhan
      We find that deviations from the covered interest rate parity (CIP) condition imply large, persistent, and systematic arbitrage opportunities in one of the largest asset markets in the world. Contrary to the common view, these deviations for major currencies are not... View Details
      Keywords: Interest Rates; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Price
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      Du, Wenxin, Alexander Tepper, and Adrien Verdelhan. "Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity." Journal of Finance 73, no. 3 (June 2018): 915–957.
      • 2018
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      Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

      By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
      A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details
      Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment
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      Gagnon-Bartsch, Tristan, Matthew Rabin, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-108, June 2018.
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