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- March 2016
- Supplement
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades
By: Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
This exercise provides students with a data set consisting of results from a hypothetical experiment, and asks students to make recommendations based on the data. Through this process, the exercise teaches students to analyze, design, and interpret experiments. The...
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- April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Entrepreneurship Goes Global: ResMed's Gamble
By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Andrew N. McLean and Meg Glinska
On the basis of its innovative medical device for treating sleep apnea, CEO Peter Farrell has made Australian-born ResMed a successful global company. But the company is struggling to implement a strategy to expand the device from its focused core market to a much...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Globalization;
Innovation and Management;
Management;
Marketing Channels;
Production;
Expansion;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A., Andrew N. McLean, and Meg Glinska. "Entrepreneurship Goes Global: ResMed's Gamble." Harvard Business School Case 304-051, April 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
- May 1996 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Timberland and Community Involvement
By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
The Timberland Co., a manufacturer and retailer of footwear, outdoor apparel, and accessories, committed itself to instituting and communicating a core set of values to its employees, stockholders, and consumers. The system of beliefs emphasized community service....
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Business and Community Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Corporate Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Austin, James E., and Jaan Elias. "Timberland and Community Involvement." Harvard Business School Case 796-156, May 1996. (Revised August 2001.)
- 08 Sep 2010
- News
Emerging Scholar Award
Make the Most of Your Relocation
Although the Covid-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Assignments far from headquarters can... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
The Importance of Trust for Managing through a Crisis
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to promote a key draw for many...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2021
- News
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
will help organizations reach a state of dynamic equilibrium, wherein paradoxes don’t impede progress—they spur it. And the way to tap the potential of paradox is to both separate and connect opposing forces: Managers must pull apart the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Geographically-Colocated Subgroups in Globally Dispersed Teams: A Test of the Faultline Hypothesis
- Research Summary
Resource-Based Entrepreneurship
By: Myra M. Hart
Myra M. Hart is investigating the relationship between an entrepreneur's industry-specific experience and the success of large-scale startups. Her work focuses on the links between the entrepreneur's knowledge and reputation resources-developed in the same or a...
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- September 2023
- Supplement
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy Shih
Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and the deep-sea segment, which...
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- September 2021
- Case
Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
The two vignettes within “Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance” (HBS No. 122-024) present various issues relating to governance in professional service firms (“PSFs”). In the first, the Managing Director of a U.S. consulting firm contemplates whether to...
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Keywords:
Consulting Firms;
Professional Services;
Board Of Directors;
Professional Service;
Global Firm;
Executive Leadership;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Private Equity;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Global Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Leadership Development;
Leading Change;
Emerging Markets;
Strategic Planning;
Partners and Partnerships;
Service Industry;
United States;
India
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Li-Kuan Ni. "Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance." Harvard Business School Case 122-024, September 2021.
- March 2022
- Article
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The vast majority of the pay inequality in an organization comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a...
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Keywords:
Salary;
Inequality;
Managers;
Career Concerns;
Pay Transparency;
Wages;
Equality and Inequality;
Perception;
Behavior
Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons." Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 3 (March 2022): 766–822.
- January–February 2015
- Article
Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?
By: Debora L. Spar
For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account...
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Keywords:
Ebola;
Multinational Corporation;
Epidemics;
Foreign Investment;
Extractive Industries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health Pandemics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Government and Politics;
Africa
Spar, Debora L. "Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?" Foreign Policy 210 (January–February 2015).
- Article
A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players
By: Letian Zhang
There is strong evidence of racial bias in organizations but little understanding of how it changes with repeated interaction. This study proposes that repeated interaction has the potential to reduce racial bias, but its moderating effects are limited to the treatment...
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Keywords:
Discrimination;
Bias;
Interaction;
NBA;
Prejudice and Bias;
Race;
Equality and Inequality;
Interpersonal Communication;
Sports
Zhang, Letian. "A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 4 (December 2017): 603–625.
- August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Busbud: Building a Data Company
By: Srikant M. Datar, Alistair Croll and Caitlin N. Bowler
The case features the work of LP Maurice (HBS '08) as he decides to take on the fragmented bus travel industry and launch an online business that aggregates and shares bus schedules for routes around the world. His first challenge: finding that the data he needs is...
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Keywords:
Data Science;
Analytics and Data Science;
Business Startups;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Customers;
Measurement and Metrics;
Transportation Industry
Datar, Srikant M., Alistair Croll, and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Busbud: Building a Data Company." Harvard Business School Case 118-011, August 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- June 2008
- Article
Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability
By: Sai Yayavaram and Gautam Ahuja
We use patent data from the worldwide semiconductor industry from 1984 to 1994 to study the effect of the structure of organizational knowledge bases, or the patterns of coupling between their elements of technical knowledge, on the usefulness of inventions and...
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Yayavaram, Sai, and Gautam Ahuja. "Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability." Administrative Science Quarterly 53, no. 2 (June 2008): 333–362.