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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
gives students an opportunity to reflect on their time at the School and to consider how they want to make a difference in the world. “Our goal is View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
Going to university is more important than ever for young people
- June 2014
- Case
Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach includes performing all legal work for annual fixed-price contracts, using data and analytics to advise clients... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Professional Services; Disruptive Innovation; Law Firms; Client Service; Culture; Recruiting; Management; Professional Services Firms; Business Model; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market." Harvard Business School Case 414-079, June 2014.
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
Cities like Tulsa in Oklahoma are Paying People to Move There
Many workers now have the ability to work remotely. And cities across the country are trying to lure these workers with cash and other perks. View Details
- 06 Jul 2012
- News
It's Sick How Close We're Getting To A 24/7 Workweek
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- News
Aligning Principles with Purpose: How to Create Rubik’s Cube Moments
- 13 Nov 2014
- News
'Middle skills' key to workforce development
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
makes it valuable to firms during both positive and negative economic cycles. Very few strategic constructs can work in both good times and bad. “Considering that the company had already secured some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2012
- Article
Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending
By: Jill Avery
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Building; Brand Equity; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Gender; Identity; Customer Focus and Relationships; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Avery, Jill. "Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending." International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (December 2012): 322–336. (Article was awarded the Marketing Science Institute's Best Paper Award.)
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
working paper by Ariel Dora Stern, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “There is a huge delay associated with being the first product to enter a new device market” She found that first movers... View Details
- Summer 2020
- Article
Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?: The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks
By: Willy C. Shih
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among countries,... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chains; Pandemic; Resilience; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Global Range; Health Pandemics; Disruption; System Shocks; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; China
Shih, Willy C. "Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 16–18.
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
could to relatives back at home—a process that opened Dyer’s eyes to the ways in which the financial system, with its long delays and steep fees, often winds up being most... View Details
- April 2023
- Case
Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Real Estate Industry; Austria
Cohen, Lauren, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye, and Grace Headinger. "Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 223-081, April 2023.
- August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details
Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet." Harvard Business School Case 820-032, August 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- 30 Nov 2015
- News
Five Ways to Give Better Gifts (Backed by Science)
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
effective. "When I graduated from high school," Merkl says, "my father gave me 3,000 deutsche marks and told me to leave from the front door of the house and return at the back door, taking the long way... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Lars Ehlers
Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house allocation problems and claim to characterize all rules satisfying efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1).... View Details
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Lars Ehlers. "Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-110, March 2009.
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002) worked at Google for more than 11 years, and she would usually take the bus to get there. And every... View Details