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The School of Business encourages and fosters a rich research-oriented environment for faculty and doctoral candidates. Students can choose from a variety of topics reflecting the varied research interests of our faculty. The Ph.D. Program is intended to prepare students to conduct original research; i.e., to explain phenomena previously not well understood and then to test proposed explanations empirically.
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Decentralized decision-making: understanding the advantages and disadvantages of bottom-up approach to leadership and management, pros of bottom-up management: advantages and applications, 1. improves employee morale through empowerment and engagement, 2. promotes innovation from diverse participation and collaboration, 3. enables faster adaptation to change through participation and autonomy, cons: bottom-up management: disadvantages and limitations.
This approach to leadership and management is not suitable for all organizations. Some are better off following the traditional chain of command that characterizes top-down management. This is especially true for organizations that require strong controls over their resources and operations. Below are the disadvantages of bottom-up management:
2. possible leadership gaps and decision paralysis due to lack of clear leadership, 3. requires more resources to manage and organization multiple decisions.
General Electronics experimented with a more collaborative approach to management in certain divisions while under the leadership of former chief executive Jack Welch. It then realized that the process of gathering and processing inputs from a large group of people was time-consuming. Zappos had to invest in extensive training when implementing its holocracy model. It needed to train its employees on how to navigate the new structure.
Outer space has come a long way since the 1960s. Matthew Weinzierl explains the current state of the space economy, highlighting the various opportunities for businesses hidden among the stars.
While fears about slowing economic growth have roiled stock markets in recent weeks, credit markets remain stable and bullish, and a recession hasn't materialized as some analysts predicted. Robin Greenwood discusses the market conditions that are buoying the economy—and risk signals to watch.
Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a sports franchise by applying lessons from the tech and entertainment industries. Unlike typical sports franchises that built their teams and track records over many years before extending their brand beyond a local base, ACFC had inverted the model, generating both global and local interest in the club during its first three years. The club’s early success was reflected in its market valuation of $250 million as of its sale in July 2024 — the highest in the National Women’s Soccer League. Equally important, ACFC had started to bend the curve toward greater pay equity in women’s sports — the club’s ultimate goal. But the founders knew there was much more to do to capitalize on the club’s momentum. As they developed ACFC’s first three-year strategic plan in 2024, they weighed the most effective ways to build value for the franchise. Was it better to allocate the incremental budget to investments in digital brand building or to investments in the on-field product? Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport is joined by case co-author Nicole Keller and club co-founder Kara Nortman to discuss the case, “Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model.”
Rising household debt alone isn't enough to predict looming economic crises. Research by Victoria Ivashina examines the role of corporate debt in fiscal crashes since 1940.
Medical debt not only hurts credit access, it can also harm one's mental health. But a study by Raymond Kluender finds that forgiving people's bills—even $170 million of debt—doesn't necessarily reduce stress, financial or otherwise.
Private equity firms often streamline the operations of portfolio companies, but cost-cutting isn't the only road to efficiency. The right technology improvements can increase the value of PE investments, says research by Brian Baik and Suraj Srinivasan.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which allow individuals to own their digital assets and move them from place to place, are changing the interaction between consumers and digital goods, brands, and platforms. Professor Scott Duke Kominers and tech entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski discuss the case, “Bored Ape Yacht Club: Navigating the NFT World,” and the related book they co-authored, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform The Way We Buy, Sell, And Create. They focus on the rise and popularity of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and the new model of brand building created by owning those tokens.
In response to unprecedented client demand a few years ago, consulting firms went on a growth-driven hiring spree, but now many of these firms are cutting back staff. David Fubini questions whether strategy firms, which are considered experts at solving a variety of problems for clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally to address their current challenges.
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading producers of natural wine. But when weather-related conditions damaged that year’s grapes, founder Frank Cornelissen had to decide between staying true to the tenets of natural wine making or breaking with his public beliefs to save that year’s grapes by adding sulfites. Harvard Business School assistant professor Tiona Zuzul discusses the importance of staying true to your company’s principles while remaining flexible enough to welcome progress in the case, Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate.
The steep inflation that plagued the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic took many economists by surprise. But research by Alberto Cavallo suggests that a different method of tracking prices—a real-time model—could predict future surges better.
How can you break down gender boundaries and support the non-binary people on your team better? A study by Katherine Coffman reveals the motivations and aspirations of non-binary employees, highlighting the need for greater inclusion to unlock the full potential of a diverse workforce.
The Insurtech firm Hippo was facing two big challenges related to climate change: major loss ratios and rate hikes. The company used technologically empowered services to create its competitive edge, along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing. But now CEO and president Rick McCathron needed to determine how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of high-intensity weather events. Harvard Business School professor Lauren Cohen discusses how Hippo could adjust its strategy to survive a new era of unprecedented weather catastrophes in his case, “Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis.”
More investors want to back businesses that contribute to social change, but are impact funds the only approach? Research by Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth challenges long-held assumptions about impact investing and reveals where such funds make the biggest difference.
Non-fungible tokens might seem like a fad approach to selling memes, but the concept could help companies open new markets and build communities. Scott Duke Kominers and Steve Kaczynski go beyond the NFT hype in their book, The Everything Token.
Financial planners must find new ways to market to tech-savvy millennials and gen Z investors or risk irrelevancy. Research by Marco Di Maggio probes the generational challenges that advisory firms face as baby boomers retire. What will it take to compete in a fintech and crypto world?
Bitcoin might seem like the preferred tender of conspiracy theorists and criminals, but everyday investors are increasingly embracing crypto. A study of 59 million consumers by Marco Di Maggio and colleagues paints a shockingly ordinary picture of today's cryptocurrency buyer. What do they stand to gain?
Dangling bonuses to checked-out employees might only be a Band-Aid solution. Brian Hall shares four research-based incentive strategies—and three perils to avoid—for leaders trying to engage the post-pandemic workforce.
In late October 2022, Elon Musk officially took Twitter private and became the company’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition saga. He appointed himself CEO and brought in his own team to clean house. Musk needed to take decisive steps to succeed against the major opposition to his leadership from both inside and outside the company. Twitter employees circulated an open letter protesting expected layoffs, advertising agencies advised their clients to pause spending on Twitter, and EU officials considered a broader Twitter ban. What short-term actions should Musk take to stabilize the situation, and how should he approach long-term strategy to turn around Twitter? Harvard Business School assistant professor Andy Wu and co-author Goran Calic, associate professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, discuss Twitter as a microcosm for the future of media and information in their case, “Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk.”
In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices, which critics alleged had contributed to the opioid crisis in the US. The $6.6 billion global settlement caused a net loss larger than the cumulative net income earned during the tenure of the company’s CEO, which began in 2011. In addition, AmerisourceBergen’s legal and financial troubles were accompanied by shareholder demands aimed at driving corporate governance changes in companies in the opioid supply chain. Determined to hold the company’s leadership accountable, the shareholders launched a campaign in early 2021 to reject the pay packages of executives. Should the board reduce the executives’ pay, as of means of improving accountability? Or does punishing the AmerisourceBergen executives for paying the settlement ignore the larger issue of a business’s responsibility to society? Harvard Business School professor Suraj Srinivasan discusses executive compensation and shareholder activism in the context of the US opioid crisis in his case, “The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen.”
Silicon Valley Bank's failure in the face of rising interest rates shook founders and funders across the country. Julia Austin, Jeffrey Bussgang, and Rembrand Koning share key insights for rattled entrepreneurs trying to make sense of the financing landscape.
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The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive/behavioral neuroscience offers profound insights into the nature of human knowledge and thought processes. Increasingly sophisticated AI systems are not only modeling but also replicating complex cognitive/behavioral functions such as learning, memory, perception, and problem-solving. This convergence is advancing our understanding of cognitive/behavioral processes and how knowledge is structured and utilized in both humans and machines. As AI continues to evolve, it presents opportunities to refine theoretical frameworks in cognitive/behavioral neuroscience and to develop novel computational models that enhance our grasp of human cognition and behavior. Such models may have far-reaching applications, such as: • Improving the safety of AI as they become more human-like and compassionate with an emergent theory of mind, leading to increased public trust in AI. • Develop better-mixed models that utilize both connectionist and symbolic approaches. Improved chain of thought reasoning and network dynamics within AI may also lead to many benefits for humanity, as they may solve many urgent problems such as improved disease and mental health diagnostics, ideographic personalized treatment, drug discovery, fraud detection, risk management, efficient transportation such as autonomous vehicles, personalized learning, climate change modeling, efficient disaster response logistics, improved agriculture, and social services for vulnerable populations. Particularly important within psychology, and computational psychiatry, are novel mental health diagnostics and personalized process-based treatment. AI may help facilitate real-time ideographic mental health diagnostics and form real-time evolving hypergraph models, that map ongoing cognitive/behavioral processes that lead to mental health problems. The goal of this Research Topic is to address the intricate relationship between AI and cognitive/behavioral accounts of knowledge, reasoning, and theory of mind and how might these be potentially applied to any of the areas highlighted. Specifically, we aim to explore how AI can be used to model cognitive/behavioral processes, as well as how insights from cognitive/behavioral neuroscience can improve AI systems as they transition towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). This reciprocal relationship holds the potential to overcome existing limitations in both fields. By integrating AI with cognitive/behavioral neuroscience, researchers can develop more accurate and comprehensive models of human cognition and AI. This Research Topic seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical constructs and practical implementations, fostering a clearer understanding of how AI can both inform and be informed by cognitive/behavioral neuroscience. We invite contributions that explore the following themes: • AI models of cognitive/behavioral processes such as learning, perception, and memory • Applications of cognitive/behavioral neuroscience findings to improve AI systems • Comparative studies of human and AI problem-solving strategies • AI-driven tools for cognitive/behavioral neuroscience research such as mental health diagnostic tools or other areas within society that require AI modeling • Ethical considerations in the integration of AI with cognitive neuroscience such as trust in AI and safety • How symbolic and connectionist approaches can be combined to lead to AGI, going beyond existing transformer LLM architecture. • Exploring the next transformative step in LLM architecture such as knowledge modeling, relational framing, and categorization theory as applied to computational neuroscience We are interested in a variety of manuscript types, including: • Original Research articles providing empirical data • Review articles synthesizing recent advancements • Technology and code articles • Hypothesis and Theory articles proposing new models or frameworks • Perspective articles offering unique viewpoints • Methods articles detailing novel techniques or tools Contributors are encouraged to submit interdisciplinary work that unites computational neuroscience and cognitive/behavioral neuroscience, pushing the boundaries of how we understand and utilize AI in the context of human knowledge, reasoning, learning, and theory of mind.
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Lack of communication between managers and their employees can hurt productivity and even undermine the customer experience. Female managers are more adept at building rapport among mixed-gender teams, which can improve an organization's performance, says research by Jorge Tamayo. 18 Jun 2024. Cold Call Podcast.
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by Rachel Layne. While fears about slowing economic growth have roiled stock markets in recent weeks, credit markets remain stable and bullish, and a recession hasn't materialized as some analysts predicted. Robin Greenwood discusses the market conditions that are buoying the economy—and risk signals to watch. 20 Aug 2024.
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