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- 29 Jul 2020
- News
How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive in a New Era of Uncertainty
- 11 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
- March 2022
- Article
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance
By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst and Yuhai Xuan
We explore gender differences in performance in a comprehensive sample of venture capital investments in the United States. Investments by female venture capital investors have significantly lower success rates than investments by their male colleagues when controlling...
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Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst, and Yuhai Xuan. "Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57, no. 2 (March 2022): 485–513.
- January 4, 2019
- Article
How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals
By: Marya L. Besharov, Wendy K. Smith and Michael Tushman
It’s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals—making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an existing business at the same time that you invent a new one. Most attempts at managing these...
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Keywords:
Goals and Objectives;
Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Profit;
Decision Making
Besharov, Marya L., Wendy K. Smith, and Michael Tushman. "How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 4, 2019).
- August 8, 2018
- Article
Hospital-based ACOs Face Challenges in Tracking Performance Indicators
By: Christiana Beveridge, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya and Thomas W. Feeley
Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements initially hoped for, we sought to better understand the underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association...
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Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Hospital-based ACOs Face Challenges in Tracking Performance Indicators." NEJM Catalyst (August 8, 2018).
- 27 Dec 2014
- News
Excusing selfishness in charitable giving: The role of risk
- January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Roush Performance: How to Design a Sales Force Compensation Plan
By: Doug J. Chung
Roush Performance manufactured and marketed factory-modified performance vehicles and high-end aftermarket automotive performance parts. Since its inception, Roush Performance had focused on building its engineering technology competency and diversifying its product...
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Keywords:
Sales Force Management;
Motivation;
Compensation;
Salary;
Commissions;
Bonuses;
Quotas;
Salesforce Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives
Chung, Doug J. "Roush Performance: How to Design a Sales Force Compensation Plan." Harvard Business School Case 519-066, January 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- March–April 2019
- Article
A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands
By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna
Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in their home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal...
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Keywords:
Recombination;
Internationalization;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
India;
Cayman Islands
Gupta, Budhaditya, and Tarun Khanna. "A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands." Organization Science 30, no. 2 (March–April 2019): 405–425.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Hidden Substitutes
By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
In this paper, we show that preferences exhibiting some forms of complementarity
in fact have an underlying substitutable structure. Specifically, we show that some
preferences that are not substitutable in the setting of many-to-one matching with
contracts become...
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Keywords:
Many-to-One Matching;
Many-to-Many Matching;
Stability;
Substitutes;
Matching With Contracts;
Slot-Specific Priorities;
Sherlock;
Market Design;
Contracts;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability
Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Hidden Substitutes." Working Paper, September 2014.
- spring 1994
- Article
Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances
By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Partners and Partnerships;
Joint Ventures;
Management Practices and Processes;
Alliances;
Trust;
Game Theory
Gulati, Ranjay, Tarun Khanna, and Nitin Nohria. "Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances." MIT Sloan Management Review 35, no. 3 (spring 1994): 61–69.
- October 2008
- Article
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are...
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Keywords:
Financial Markets;
Information Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Announcements;
Investment Portfolio;
Investment Return;
Investment Funds;
Asset Pricing;
Governing and Advisory Boards
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Journal of Political Economy 116, no. 5 (October 2008): 951–979. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens
By: Mihir A. Desai, James R. Hines, Jr and Mark Veblen
In response to Stanley Work's announcement that it is moving to Bermuda--and the associated jump in market value--a major competitor sets out to determine how the market is valuing the consequences of moving to a tax haven and whether his company should invert to a tax...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Taxation;
Financial Strategy;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
International Finance;
Valuation;
Financial Markets;
Financial Statements;
United States
Desai, Mihir A., James R. Hines, Jr, and Mark Veblen. "Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens." Harvard Business School Case 203-008, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).
By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael Tushman
We studied Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows platform in 2011 to induce new theory on the emotional dynamics of incumbent firms’ strategic decision making at platform transitions. We find that platform companies’ entry into an established industry activates a...
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Vuori, Timo O., and Michael Tushman. "Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011)." Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 23, 2024.)
- August 2014
- Article
Friends in High Places
By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy
We demonstrate that personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for...
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Keywords:
Vote Trading;
Networks;
Legislation;
Logrolling;
Earmarks;
Voting;
Government Legislation;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
United States
Cohen, Lauren, and Christopher Malloy. "Friends in High Places." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6, no. 3 (August 2014): 63–91.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile
By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,...
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Keywords:
Saving;
Decision Making;
Interest Rates;
Planning;
Performance Effectiveness;
Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development;
Social Enterprise;
Global Range;
Chile
Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz. "Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-060, January 2012. (Revised April 2016. Revision requested by Journal of Development Economics.
Featured in Time, Business Insider, Freakonomics, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, and others.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm...
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Keywords:
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Publishing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Societal Protocols
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., and Andreea Gorbatai. "Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-055, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, March 2013.)
Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China
This article analyzes the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and explores its implications for doing business there. It identifies three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems: priorities and...
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- 03 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure
- April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco (Abridged)
By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Telecommunications;
Employee Mobility;
Leading Change;
Human Resources;
Organizational Culture;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Talent and Talent Management;
Telecommunications Industry;
Technology Industry;
Middle East;
United Arab Emirates
Truelove, Emily, Michelle Zhang, and Alpana Thapar. "Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 423-059, April 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- May 2024
- Technical Note
Health Care Payment in the United States
By: Robert S. Huckman, Jeff Charca and Craig Garthwaite
This document provides an overview of how various actors (e.g., physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers) are paid in the United States health care system. It is particularly focused on features of the payment system that contribute to strategic decisions...
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