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Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making

Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details

December 2022
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Taylor Farms: Adding Value to Fresh Produce

By: José B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Pedro Levindo

In October 2022, Bruce Taylor (HBS MBA, 1981), Chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, the leading producer of salads and healthy fresh foods in the United States, wondered whether this was the right time for Taylor Farms to venture into the Controlled Environment... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Logistics; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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Moral Reasoning & Experimental Political Philosophy

In this work, we demonstrate a new and morally significant effect on judgment and decision-making. This research is inspired by the work of John Rawls, widely regarded as the most important political philosopher of the 20th Century. Here we apply the central... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Distributive Justice

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Science The Belief in a Favorable Future By: Rogers, Todd, Don A. Moore, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—People believe that future others’ preferences and beliefs will change to align with their own. People holding a particular view... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
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Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the disadvantaged and those in poverty" (Peter Bowie); one that View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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What's Your Language Strategy?: It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision

By: Tsedal Neeley and Robert Steven Kaplan

Language pervades every aspect of organizational life. Yet leaders of global organizations—where unrestricted multilingualism can create friction—often pay too little attention to it in their approach to talent management. By managing language carefully, firms can hire... View Details

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2018
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Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details

Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research

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07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details

Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory

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Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research

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December 2009
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Closing the Customer Feedback Loop

By: Rob Markey, Fred Reichheld and Andreas Dullweber

Realizing that customer retention is more critical than ever, companies have ramped up their efforts to listen to customers. But many struggle to convert their findings into practical prescriptions for customer-facing employees. Some companies are addressing that... View Details

Keywords: Customer Centric Initiative; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain

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Iterative Coordination and Innovation

By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu

Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software

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25 Mar 2009
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Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Ian I. Larkin; Education

21 Aug 2006
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How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained dataset from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team performance is positively associated with coaches’ subsequent exercise of racial bias: players experience more View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2010
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It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

women. “It appears that increasing your female managers leads to higher profitability over time” In the study, the researchers set out to prove the following hypothesis: "Firms, both foreign and domestic, that do more to hire and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

and deliverables. Many critical business challenges are detailed in this case. Nevertheless, given their fully integrated business model and significant manufacturing base, the odds are in Biocon's favor to overcome these challenges and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers. Furthermore, travel agents... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2013
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sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

important move, is Public Opinion.” 10 Hill argued that “the highest purpose of public relations is to foster and promote understanding among people. For this reason, the art of communication assumes great importance in public relations.”... View Details