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POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition
Finalist in the 2015 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition, for “Cohort Turnover and Productivity: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals” with Hummy Song and Jason R. Barro.
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- November 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
By: Ranjay Gulati, Rachna Tahilyani and Alicia DeSantola
It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product...
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Keywords:
Mobile;
Scaling;
Indian Software Development;
Consumer Behavior;
Management Turnover;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Management;
E-commerce;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
India
Gulati, Ranjay, Rachna Tahilyani, and Alicia DeSantola. "Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company." Harvard Business School Case 415-034, November 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- Research Summary
Manager Specific Human Capital Investment: A Model of Block Trading and Firm Stability
I develop a model in which workers can undertake specific human capital investments in the firm and in the manager employed by the firm. If the manager leaves the firm, a worker has to decide whether to join her in the new firm or stay in the old firm. In case of...
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- 09 Oct 2019
- News
The Benefits of Framing Culture as a Management System
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies,...
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by James Heskett
- 2020
- Working Paper
Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research
Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used as an observation for further inductive or abductive research, but should not be treated as the result of a...
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Keywords:
Machine Learning;
Theory Building;
Induction;
Decision Trees;
Random Forests;
K-nearest Neighbors;
Neural Network;
P-hacking;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres. "Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-032, September 2018. (Revised June 2020.)
- January 2021
- Article
Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen and Michael G. Endres
Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used for exploratory inductive or abductive research, or for post-hoc analysis of regression results to detect...
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Keywords:
Machine Learning;
Supervised Machine Learning;
Induction;
Abduction;
Exploratory Data Analysis;
Pattern Discovery;
Decision Trees;
Random Forests;
Neural Networks;
ROC Curve;
Confusion Matrix;
Partial Dependence Plots;
AI and Machine Learning
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres. "Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 1 (January 2021): 30–57.
- June 2017
- Case
Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?
By: Kevin Schulman, Gregory Leya and Christina Beveridge
Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care organization in the United States with over 10 million members. KP evolved from a prepayment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it serves....
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Keywords:
Operations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Model;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Schulman, Kevin, Gregory Leya, and Christina Beveridge. "Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?" Harvard Business School Case 317-106, June 2017.
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
management today. “How much more do we need to think about our responsibility to people?” As fascinating as her findings were, Rosenthal had some misgivings about their implications. She didn't want to be perceived as saying something...
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by Katie Johnston
- December 2017
- Supplement
CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Excerpts of videotaped class visits and an interview with former Cisco CEO John Chambers about Cisco’s CEO succession planning process. Topics include Chambers’ reflections on the process; the roles of the incumbent CEO, board of directors, executive search, and the...
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Keywords:
CEO Succession;
CEO Turnover;
Top Management Teams;
Board Of Directors;
Organizational Change;
Strategic Human Resource Management;
Strategy;
High Technology;
Management Succession;
Managerial Roles;
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Change
Groysberg, Boris, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-705, December 2017.
- November 2011
- Case
WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Rachel Shelton
A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store...
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Keywords:
Empowerment;
Middle Management;
Human Resource Management;
Compensation;
Incentives;
Motivation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Change Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Service Delivery;
Entrepreneurship;
Employees;
Compensation and Benefits;
Service Industry;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
California
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr., and Rachel Shelton. "WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-362, November 2011.
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Contingent to career: Kelly Services’ Peter Quigley on reinventing work and creating good jobs In its 75 years, Kelly Services has gone from temp agency to skills broker, outsourcing firm, workforce development...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
outstanding. If I were told, if I just did this one thing in terms of, let’s say, talent management or compensation or bonuses, I could reduce the turnover of my senior-most cohort of personnel by...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Bringing hidden workers into focus If workers are in short supply, why do employers continue to use digital gatekeepers that screen out millions of capable individuals? Joe Fuller joins his View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Parsing 5G’s potential for work and learning As the realities of 5G wireless networking and the Internet of Things catch up to the hype, the effects are expected to be sweeping, from smart infrastructure to...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines Building From the Bottom Up By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman 132 Results 23 Feb 2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work MFW...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... 13 Apr 2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work Micha Kaufman on the new terms of the talent bargain Joe Fuller 30 Mar 2022 Podcast View Details
- March 2018
- Case
Sachem Head's Activism at Autodesk
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
In 2015, activist hedge fund Sachem Head Capital, led by founder Scott Ferguson, launched an activist campaign at computer aided design (CAD) software maker Autodesk. The activist campaign, waged mainly in private, was over Autodesk's lackluster financial performance,...
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Keywords:
Shareholder Activism;
Investing;
Activist Investing;
Technology;
CEO Turnover;
Hedge Fund Activism;
Benchmarking;
Corporate Governance;
Information Technology;
Investment Activism;
Performance Improvement;
Management Succession;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Quinn Pitcher. "Sachem Head's Activism at Autodesk." Harvard Business School Case 118-086, March 2018.
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Josh Bersin on why CHROs are at the center of the action HR is reinventing itself on the fly and under increasing pressure. HR expert Josh Bersin explains how the field is adapting to play a more varied and...
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