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Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory
By: Michael Beer
There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice...
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Keywords:
Actionable Knowledge;
Actionable Practice;
Normal Science;
Scholar-consultant;
Management Practices and Processes;
Theory;
Innovation Leadership;
Organizations;
Performance Effectiveness
Beer, Michael. "Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 56, no. 4 (December 2020): 506–520.
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
Science could be suffering and business certainly is suffering. If you try to take something that is science, and then jam it into normal business institutions, it just doesn't work that well for either...
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- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance By Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman How will rocket science retailing be different in the new normal than it was in the...
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- 2000
- Chapter
Research That Will Break the Code of Change: The Role of Useful Normal Science and Usable Action Science, A Commentary on Van de Ven and Argyris
By: Michael Beer
Beer, Michael. "Research That Will Break the Code of Change: The Role of Useful Normal Science and Usable Action Science, A Commentary on Van de Ven and Argyris." In Breaking the Code of Change, edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater depth of data. The difference...
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Dan Morrell
- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School, will soon head to SpaceX, where she’ll work in the direct-to-cell connectivity department. Along with enabling normal cell phone features such as text messaging...
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- February 2021
- Technical Note
Probability Distributions
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal and binomial distributions. After a brief introduction to random variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a...
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Parzen, Michael, and Paul Hamilton. "Probability Distributions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 621-704, February 2021.
Vincent Pons
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VINCENT PONS, CONSULT HIS WEBSITE.
Vincent Pons is an...
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- October 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL
By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta
Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This product offers a reduced price to riders willing to carpool, walk a short distance to/from their pick-up and drop-off points, and wait a...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Decision Making;
Technology Industry;
California;
San Francisco
Farronato, Chiara, Alan MacCormack, and Sarah Mehta. "Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL." Harvard Business School Case 619-003, October 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50235 forthcoming Organization Science Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2018
- HBS Seminar
John Helveston, Boston University
- August 2021
- Article
Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas
By: F.M. Hollenbach, I. Bojinov, S. Minhas, N.W. Metternich, M.D. Ward and A. Volfovsky
Missing observations are pervasive throughout empirical research, especially in the social sciences. Despite multiple approaches to dealing adequately with missing data, many scholars still fail to address this vital issue. In this paper, we present a simple-to-use...
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Hollenbach, F.M., I. Bojinov, S. Minhas, N.W. Metternich, M.D. Ward, and A. Volfovsky. "Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas." Special Issue on New Quantitative Approaches to Studying Social Inequality. Sociological Methods & Research 50, no. 3 (August 2021): 1259–1283. (0049124118799381.)
- 18 Apr 2023
- HBS Seminar
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
- September 2006 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in Thailand. Documents the challenges the company faced in the first ten hours of...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Natural Disasters;
Tourism Industry;
Thailand;
Sweden
Margolis, Joshua D., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours." Harvard Business School Case 407-007, September 2006. (Revised March 2012.)
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
- Web
Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Unbiased Samples The Normal Distribution Confidence Intervals Amazon's Inventory Sampling Featured Exercises Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate...
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- Web
Curriculum - MBA
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Curriculum Students complete degree requirements over two academic years, augmented by coursework during August at the beginning of the program and during both January terms. Students have the summer...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Capstone - MBA
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Capstone Each student develops a capstone project in their second year of studies that challenges them to perform an in-depth structured scientific and business analysis of a biotechnology opportunity....
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