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- 22 May 2012
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Componential Theory of Creativity
by Teresa M. Amabile
The componential theory of creativity is recognized as one of the major theories of creativity in individuals and in organizations, serving as a partial foundation for several other theories and for many empirical investigations. It was first articulated by Teresa Amabile in 1983 and has undergone...
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- 19 Aug 2009
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Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
by N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl & Danny Yagan
Topic: Theory
Are developments in the theory of taxation improving tax policies around the world? The optimal design of a tax system is a topic that has long fascinated economic theorists and flummoxed economic policymakers. This paper explores the interplay between tax theory and tax policy. It identifies key...
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- 06 Apr 2020
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A General Theory of Identification
by Iavor Bojinov and Guillaume Basse
Statistical inference teaches us how to learn from data, whereas identification analysis explains what we can learn from it. This paper proposes a simple unifying theory of identification, encouraging practitioners to spend more time thinking about what they can estimate from the data and assumptions before trying to estimate it.
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- 08 Oct 2018
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Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods
by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres
Topic: Theory
This paper provides a step-by-step roadmap for using machine learning (ML) techniques to explore novel and robust patterns in data. It introduces management researchers to a new use case for ML tools: building new theory from quantitative observational data.
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
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Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
by Michael C. Jensen
Topic: Theory
communities, governmental officials, "and, under some interpretations, the environment, terrorists, blackmailers, and thieves.") But by failing to specify how managers should make the necessary tradeoffs among competing interests, writes Jensen, advocates of stakeholder theory fall short, just
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- 12 Jul 2007
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Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations
by Francesca Gino & Gary Pisano
Topic: Theory
Research in psychology over the past several decades teaches us that behavioral biases and cognitive limits are not just "noise"; they systematically affect (and often distort) people's judgment and decision making. Despite such advances, however, most scholarly...
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- 05 Jul 2006
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The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
by Paul R. Carlile & Clayton M. Christensen
How do business academics know they are categorizing or measuring the best things to help us understand interesting phenomena? Scholars waste a lot of time and energy disparaging and defending various research methods. Yet the stakes are high for business academics to create theory that is...
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- 25 Oct 2013
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Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases
by Richard L. Nolan
Topic: Theory
The author reflects upon his diverse experiences throughout his career with the benefits and challenges of case method teaching and case writing. The case method is undergoing tremendous innovation as students in the twenty-first century engage in learning about...
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- 03 Oct 2016
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Clayton Christensen: The Theory of Jobs To Be Done
by Dina Gerdeman
Clayton M. Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma was a classic text on how companies fail. In a new book, Competing Against Luck, Christensen tackles the opposite challenge: how companies succeed. First lesson, discover what job consumers are hiring your product to do.
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- 09 Mar 2020
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Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship
by Benjamin N. Roth
The author provides a formal definition of organizational sustainability and characterizes the situations in which a social enterprise should be sustainable. The analysis then delineates when an investment in a social enterprise delivers superior impact to a grant.
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- 14 Jun 2007
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Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory
by Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan D. MacCormack & John Rusnak
...challenges and delays in bringing software to market. Clearly, designers need a formal theory and models of modularity and software evolution that capture the essence of important but informal design principles and offer ways to describe, predict, and resolve issues. This paper evaluates the...
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A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates
by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam
Topic: Theory
This paper provides a framework for understanding how the detailed structure of financial intermediation affects foreign exchange rates.
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- 22 Oct 2015
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A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition
by Gary P. Pisano
Gary Pisano examines how companies compete on "know how" by analyzing how they invest in different capabilities.
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- 25 Jun 2014
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Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight
by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis
When people encounter difficult ethical challenges, research has shown, they generally ask themselves the question, "What should I do?" Organizations, too, frame the principles to guide managerial conduct in terms of "should." Despite the pervasiveness of having a...
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- 13 Jul 2012
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Theory and Evidence on Preference Heterogeneity and Redistribution
by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl
...variation in these preferences may also help explain why the extent of redistribution varies across countries and US states, and why (at least in the case of the United States) redistribution is weaker than conventional theory would suggest. More generally, Lockwood and Weinzierl argue that neglecting...
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- 09 Jan 2012
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When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry
by Hong Luo
How completely should an innovator develop his idea before selling it? HBS assistant professor Hong Luo addresses this question in a theoretical framework that links the sales stage to the innovator's "observable quality." She uses the context of Hollywood movie script...
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- 19 Jul 2016
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Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
by Gary P. Pisano
This paper explore how firms’ choices about capability investments shape competitive outcomes. In essence, while general-purpose management capabilities rooted in such activities as quality management systems and corporate governance may contribute to performance...
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- 15 Jan 2013
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The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy
by Matthew Weinzierl
...evidence of a mixed objective for taxation. Third, he shows that the empirically-preferred calibration of the generalized theory has remarkable explanatory power as a positive optimal tax model. Taken together, the survey results, theoretical analysis, and calibrated simulations of this paper...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
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Breaking the Code of Change
by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
How can firms maximize economic value while developing their organizational capabilities? In a corporate environment where change is constant, business leaders are continually challenged by this dilemma. In this excerpt from "Resolving the Tension between Theories E and O of Change," from Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria's Breaking the Code of Change, the authors present a framework toward "an integrative theory of change."...
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- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
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Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
World-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen explores the personal benefits of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but in life.
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