by Zoë Chance - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

“I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences

Keywords: by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton

August 2012 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Bonne Chance

With a competitor nipping at his heels, his bank reluctantly covering his recent overdraft, Jacob Zimmerman is considering expanding his Midwestern retail jewelry business by bringing on the new Swatch watch line to augment his high end Rolex offerings. Only 14 weeks... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Bank Loan; Entrepreneurial Finance; Turnarounds; Negotiation; Liquidation; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; United States

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27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2014
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Chances Are

Boston and a hot website fawned over by everyone from the New York Times to NPR. The financial crisis, though, forced Shapiro to shutter the site, transform Book of Odds into a data-consulting group, and put the numbers into book form.... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; probability

15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance

starting Harvard Business School in fall 1993. His mishap—a freak accidental fall—cost him the use of his legs and delayed his entrance to HBS by a year. But once there, he embraced the School’s approach of building deep general... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Oct 2018
News

A Chance to Lead

their way in the corporate world. “When I started my business, the building-service industry was primarily dominated by companies owned by men, but about 90 percent of the women were workers there. But many... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Giving Kids a Better Chance

into some of the most-improved schools in California. In this video, Tuck talks about his mission to give inner-city kids a chance at a high-quality education. “When I applied to HBS, I knew that I wanted to get focused on how we help... View Details

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective evaluations, so there was a disconnect between what was perceived to be going on by employees vs. what the actual numbers were... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

14 Aug 2016
News

Limit the chances of being lied to in negotiations

October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko

In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details

Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States

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April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
Teaching Plan

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States

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16 Jul 2020
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Crisis offers a chance to rewrite accounting to include impact

28 Nov 2017
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The chance of a bitcoin crash is greater than 80%

September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia

The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Sports Industry; United States

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08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health