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- August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Digital Marketing at HBS Online
By: Sunil Gupta and Rajiv Lal
In July 2020, the management team of Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) had to decide how to allocate its marketing budget for fiscal year 2021 between various digital channels and its portfolio of courses. Since its launch in 2014, HBS Online had grown to...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
Brands and Branding;
Business Education;
Education Industry;
United States;
Boston
Gupta, Sunil, and Rajiv Lal. "Digital Marketing at HBS Online." Harvard Business School Case 521-027, August 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- January 2013
- Article
Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity
By: Carmit Tadmor, Melody Chao, Ying-yi Hong and Jeff Polzer
Individuals who believe that racial groups have fixed underlying essences use stereotypes more than do individuals who believe that racial categories are arbitrary and malleable social-political constructions. Would this essentialist mind-set also lead to less...
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Tadmor, Carmit, Melody Chao, Ying-yi Hong, and Jeff Polzer. "Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity." Psychological Science 24, no. 1 (January 2013).
- June 2001
- Case
Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: TAD Confidential Instructions
Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Process;
Emerging Markets;
Privatization;
State Ownership;
Telecommunications Industry;
Turkey
Watkins, Michael D., Banu Ozcan, Burkhard Schrage, and Paul Vaaler. "Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: TAD Confidential Instructions." Harvard Business School Case 801-437, June 2001.
- June 2001
- Case
Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: BOW Confidential Instructions
Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Process;
Emerging Markets;
Privatization;
State Ownership;
Telecommunications Industry;
Turkey
Watkins, Michael D., Banu Ozcan, Burkhard Schrage, and Paul Vaaler. "Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: BOW Confidential Instructions." Harvard Business School Case 801-433, June 2001.
- April 2005 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
A five-member team from Berkshire Partners must recommend a final bid and financial structure for a leveraged buyout of William Carter Co., a leading producer of children's apparel. Investorcorp, a global investment group, has put the company up for auction. Goldman...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Capital Structure;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Valuation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's." Harvard Business School Case 205-058, April 2005. (Revised August 2011.)
- 06 Mar 2024
- News
A Peek at the MBA Experience
- Article
Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are...
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Keywords:
Incentives;
Motivation Laundering;
Self-signaling;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Perception
Kirgios, Erika L., Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman, and Judd B. Kessler. "Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 29 (July 21, 2020): 16891–16897.
- 2016
- Chapter
Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People To Act Immorally
By: F. Gino and D. Ariely
The last two decades have witnessed what seems to be an increasing number of cases of dishonesty, from corporate corruption and employee misconduct to questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of...
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Gino, F., and D. Ariely. "Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People To Act Immorally." In The Social Psychology of Good and Evil. 2nd ed. Edited by Arthur G. Miller. New York: Guilford Press, 2016.
- Career Coach
Rena Clark
Rena (HBS ’90 and Lamar University ’84) draws on her 30+ years of experience across private equity, operational management, entrepreneurship, philanthropy and higher education to help View Details
- September 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption
By: Willy Shih
Ulrich Simon, the head of the Microscopy business group at Carl Zeiss AG knew that his unit was facing a disruptive threat, so he chartered a special team to tackle the industrial segment. Given a high degree of autonomy, the project team developed an understanding of...
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Keywords:
Modularity;
High Technology Products;
Emergent Strategy;
Product Lines;
Corporate Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technology Industry;
Germany
Shih, Willy. "Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 613-039, September 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- 30 May 2019
- News
How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash
- June 2013
- Article
What Is Privacy Worth?
By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy...
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Acquisti, Alessandro, Leslie K. John, and George Loewenstein. "What Is Privacy Worth?" Journal of Legal Studies 42, no. 2 (June 2013): 249–274.
- June 2001
- Case
Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: EUTEL Confidential Instructions
Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Process;
Emerging Markets;
Privatization;
State Ownership;
Telecommunications Industry;
Turkey
Watkins, Michael D., Banu Ozcan, Burkhard Schrage, and Paul Vaaler. "Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: EUTEL Confidential Instructions." Harvard Business School Case 801-435, June 2001.
- April 2018
- Case
Ferrari
By: Stefan Thomke, Elena Corsi and Ashok Nimgade
Ferrari is among the world’s most powerful brands, but how the company operates has remained mysterious. The case reveals the inner workings of the company—the Ferrari Way—from the way it designs, produces, and markets its cars, to how its leadership team is driving...
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Keywords:
Growth;
Innovation;
Technology Adoption;
Product Design;
Business Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Operations;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Auto Industry
Thomke, Stefan, Elena Corsi, and Ashok Nimgade. "Ferrari." Harvard Business School Case 618-047, April 2018.
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Design;
Education;
Training;
Working Conditions;
Business or Company Management;
Production;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Improvement;
Programs;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Rank and Position;
Safety;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Trust;
Well-being;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
She and her team identify new project sites; they enter leasing agreements with landowners, many of whom are facing drought conditions and have limited alternative “crop”...
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- Oct 29 2020
- Testimonial
Transforming Lives Through Innovation
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
quality of games is that, thanks to tweaks in the design of postseason matchups, teams at the highest championship level more often find themselves facing their true competitive counterparts. It was not always so. Until 1992, as HBS...
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- June 2020
- Case
RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...
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Keywords:
Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Decision Making;
Human Resources;
Management Systems;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Management Teams;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 920-008, June 2020.
- June 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Exercise
Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: General Instructions for All Simulation Participants
Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and...
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"Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: General Instructions for All Simulation Participants." Harvard Business School Exercise 801-431, June 2001. (Revised March 2008.)