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Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)
right combination of weights to maximize the load without breaking it. A coin flipping task that demonstrates the “gambler’s fallacy,” the faulty tendency to think that previous events influence a future random event. A bidding task to...
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by Kara Baskin
- October 2015 (Revised November 2016)
- Background Note
'World-Class' Universities: Rankings and Reputation in Global Higher Education
By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
Discussions of "world-class" universities have become an academic cottage industry in the 21st century, and definitions of the term are complex and at times contradictory. This background note traces the origins of university ranking systems and their evolution from a...
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Rankings;
University Faculty;
University Curriculum;
University Administration;
Higher Education;
Education Industry
Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "'World-Class' Universities: Rankings and Reputation in Global Higher Education." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-065, October 2015. (Revised November 2016.)
- February 2006 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?
Andrew Prihodko is forming a new venture, Pixamo, the next generation of online photo management and sharing sites. Pixamo's alpha site has generated over 1,000 users and a lot of information about registration and usage patterns. Prihodko must address a number of...
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Geographic Location;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Web Services Industry;
Delaware;
Switzerland;
Ukraine
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?" Harvard Business School Case 806-123, February 2006. (Revised December 2009.)
- 12 Apr 2013
- News
It’s just the gravy
- February 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
On June 8th, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates from across the United States began discussing a curious proposal to expand federal power over the states. James Madison of Virginia had suggested that the new constitution include a...
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Governance;
Law;
Government and Politics;
Power and Influence;
History;
South Carolina;
Philadelphia;
United States
Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution." Harvard Business School Case 716-053, February 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Ethics;
Marketing;
Behavior;
Power and Influence;
Luxury
Chua, Roy Y.J., and Xi Zou. "The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-034, November 2009.
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MD/MBA Harvard Medical School - MBA
first students in the fall of 2005. The program's mission is to develop outstanding physician leaders, skilled in both medicine and management, to take positions of influence through which they will contribute substantially to the health...
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge
nuances of digital communication. She offers advice for improving remote teamwork. 03 May 2024 Research & Ideas How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact by Ben Rand When it comes to sharing ideas,...
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- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
significantly influenced by where their colleagues worked at a given point in time, rather than just by where they themselves worked. Our results suggest how important it is to be intentional about where you work, but also to be aware of...
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by Kristen Senz
- 31 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification
- 09 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
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by Heidi K. Gardner
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Placement - Doctoral
influence consumer behavior Advisors: Michael I. Norton, Leslie K. John, and Elizabeth A. Keenan 2023 Emily Prinsloo Marketing, 2023 Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business Dissertation: Three Essays on Cost-benefit...
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Accounting & Management - Doctoral
and Management, the dissertation may take the form of three publishable papers or one longer dissertation. Recent questions students have explored include: the ways in which managers use retail-level marketing actions to influence the...
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Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available
By: Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where a long-run player is allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a long-lived player...
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Crime and Corruption;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Game Theory;
Mathematical Methods;
Interests;
Power and Influence;
Reputation
Dal Bo, Ernesto, Pedro Dal Bo, and Rafael Di Tella. "Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 16, no. 3 (Fall 2007).
- January–February 2022
- Article
Operational Disruptions, Firm Risk, and Control Systems
By: William Schmidt and Ananth Raman
Operational disruptions can impact a firm's risk, which manifests in a host of operational issues, including a higher holding cost for inventory, a higher financing cost for capacity expansion, and a higher perception of the firm's risk among its supply chain partners....
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Operational Risk;
Operational Disruptions;
Information Asymmetry;
Control Systems;
Operations;
Disruption;
Risk Management
Schmidt, William, and Ananth Raman. "Operational Disruptions, Firm Risk, and Control Systems." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24, no. 1 (January–February 2022): 411–429.
- 23 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?
- September–October 2018
- Article
Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
By: Ayelet Israeli
This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a pricing policy widely used by manufacturers to...
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Pricing Policies;
Pricing;
Channel Management;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Retail;
Price;
Policy;
Governance Compliance;
Distribution Channels;
Management;
Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet. "Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment." Marketing Science 37, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 710–732.
- October 2010
- Article
Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity
This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture-in the sense of shared beliefs and values in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared...
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Cost vs Benefits;
Organizational Culture;
Economics;
Information Management;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Values and Beliefs;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Framework;
Satisfaction;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence;
Communication
Van den Steen, Eric. "Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity." Management Science 56, no. 10 (October 2010): 1718–1738.
- November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall...
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Racism;
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Diversity;
Race;
Social Issues;
Ethics;
Canada;
North America
Ghosh, Shikhar, Marilyn Morgan Westner, and Reza Satchu. "Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 821-056, November 2020. (Revised February 2021.)