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- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception...
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Anna Secino
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
chicken and value-added chicken products in Pakistan. This position has been built through a strategy of vertical integration, product innovation, and branding. K&N's has also developed its own chain of retail "Chicken Stores" to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent, working to promote gender equality within the company and a new...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
leaders may give expatriate assignments not to the best candidates but to people who speak certain languages. To hire and promote the best people, firms may need to provide training to meet global and local language needs. Fluency in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
listing all contributors to the code, some developers find it desirable to participate in OSS projects to signal their ability and to enhance their chances of promotion and professional advancement. Finally, user-developers sometimes fix...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The goal: To promote the...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
major executive education program for over a thousand senior leaders from a variety of companies, I asked participants what percentage of the people they hired or promoted turned out to be a superb choice. By their own reckoning, about a...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
be met offline or can be met only at much greater cost. Companies need to help people interact with each other before they will promote products to their friends or help companies in other ways. Done right, a company's social media should...
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- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
urbanization occurring in the informal sector suggests that urbanization policies that contain inclusionary approaches may be more successful in promoting local development and managing its strains than those focused only on the formal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
further promote commercial avoidance. Based on the model estimation, we optimize the branding activity under marketing control for ads in the sample to reduce commercial avoidance. This reveals that pulsing the brand presence—while...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
promote China’s 5,000-year-old cultural heritage and leverage Chinese craftsmanship to design contemporary products. Describing the brand evolution over its first eight years of existence, the case allows for an exploration of the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average, the mere introduction of the...
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- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society, and market...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
doing this financial analysis, Marisa received lots of mentoring from the vice presidents she worked with. Marisa believed that she had done well and would soon be promoted so that she could originate her own deals. However, she is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper level. By engaging more of workers' total selves, organizations hope to develop staff who are more satisfied, productive, and innovative. Indeed, the manifestations of spirituality in business are as varied as the...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
David E. Bell and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 510-013 CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
Schankerman examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, how developers and users view the tradeoffs...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
their organizations can benefit. This premise has led to widespread promotion of collaboration—among front-line staff and between staff and managers—as a strategy to integrate front-line staff knowledge for performance improvement....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
back to the forefront again. I think they are saying no, that’s not what leadership is about, and that’s not what I want to be. Spence: There are many examples of student efforts to promote social action and ethical behavior. The...
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