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- March 2023
- Supplement
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments 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;
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;
Consulting Industry;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Supplement 923-034, March 2023.
- 2017
- Article
Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development
By: Shawn A. Cole and Wentao Xiong
This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries. Agricultural producers face a variety of significant risks; historically, only government-subsidized products have achieved widespread adoption. A recent...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Insurance;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Adoption;
Risk Management;
Research;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong. "Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 235–262.
- November 2010 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer?
By: Ray Goldberg, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero and Andrew Terris
Alejandro Elsztain, CEO of Cresud S.A., is faced with the difficult choice of whether to sell, develop, or continue to hold the 151,000 hectares of remaining undeveloped farmland at the company's Los Pozos farm in Argentina. Developing the land will further expose...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Risk Management;
Ownership Stake;
Property;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Argentina
Goldberg, Ray, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero, and Andrew Terris. "Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer?" Harvard Business School Case 211-011, November 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
- December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc
By: C. Fritz Foley
How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that is headquartered in Switzerland, incorporated in the Isle of...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Complexity;
Capital Structure;
Restructuring;
International Finance;
Law;
Ship Transportation;
Shipping Industry;
Switzerland;
Isle of Man
Foley, C. Fritz. "Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc." Harvard Business School Case 207-092, December 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
The Nobel Prize and the Making of a Heritage Brand
Kym Lew Nelson
Kym Lew Nelson joined the NOM unit of the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Lecturer in January of 2020. In July of 2020, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Negotiations unit. Prior to joining the faculty, Kym was a guest lecturer in the Negotiations class at... View Details
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
What books are HBS faculty members reading this summer—and are certain publications especially meaningful to them? Turns out, faculty are interested in a variety of topics, everything from exploring spirituality and confronting climate...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 1985
- Working Paper
Sequential Innovation and Market Structure
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
This paper concerns the introduction of a sequence of new, higher-quality durable products in a market in which there already exists a lower-quality substitute. The product has the further attribute that a real resource cost is incurred at the time a higher-quality...
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Sequential Innovation and Market Structure." Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper, No. 1185, October 1985.
- 2017
- Chapter
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple...
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Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship." Chap. 5 in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Vol. 75, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. Studies in Income and Wealth (NBER). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
What’s Law Got to Do with It: A Systems Approach to Management
- Research Summary
Corporate Reputation
Stephen A. Greyser is undertaking an empirical analysis of
corporate reputation based on interviews conducted by Opinion Research
Corporation with more than four thousand executives in nineteen
countries. His study is examining public awareness of, familiarity
with,...
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- November–December 2020
- Article
Dancing with Giants: How Small Women-and Minority- Owned Firms Use Soft Power to Manage Asymmetric Relationships with Larger Partners
By: Kisha Lashley and Timothy G. Pollock
We explore how minority- and women-owned suppliers lacking hard power manage asymmetric relationships with larger, more powerful buyers in the context of supplier diversity relationships. We examine how these suppliers create and use soft power to manage the...
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Keywords:
Women-owned Businesses;
Minority-owned Businesses;
Soft Power;
Buyer-supplier Relationshships;
Cognitive Centrality;
Hard Power;
Influencers;
Supplier Diversity;
Small Business;
Relationships;
Sales
Lashley, Kisha, and Timothy G. Pollock. "Dancing with Giants: How Small Women-and Minority- Owned Firms Use Soft Power to Manage Asymmetric Relationships with Larger Partners." Organization Science 31, no. 6 (November–December 2020): 1313–1335.
- April 2008
- Journal Article
Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
This study explores the systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as random....
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DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis." Management Science 54, no. 4 (April 2008).
- Web
Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
layout, you can highlight your employment history in a straight chronological manner, but also make it immediately clear you have filled a variety of roles that use different but related skill sets. This is useful to provide a few...
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- Research Summary
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)
By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the
existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country
generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel
mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in
enabling...
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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
dynamics, including Nepal's, they have leaned toward one of two approaches: a broad view of several different countries together, or the sharp focus of a case study. Iyer and Do's method combines the best of both worlds by examining a View Details
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by Martha Lagace
Peter Tufano
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details
Keywords:
asset management;
banking;
brokerage;
credit card;
education industry;
energy;
federal government;
financial services;
insurance industry;
investment banking industry;
microfinance;
mining;
nonprofit industry;
oil & gas;
petroleum;
real estate;
retail financial services;
state government;
utilities;
video games
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally must offer revolutionary...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Working PapersLeading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Extremeness Seeking: When and Why Consumers Prefer the Extremes...
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Martha Lagace