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- 12 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Allocating Marketing Resources
Keywords: by Sunil Gupta & Thomas J. Steenburgh
- 07 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Vishal Gaur, Johnson, Cornell University
- Web
Hiring Organizations
Employment Data Hiring Organizations Employment Data Hiring Organizations The below organizations hired an MBA graduate from the Class of 2024 or a summer intern from the Class of 2025. A B C D E F G H I J K... View Details
- 2022
- Article
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor
market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Wilmers, Nathan, and Letian Zhang. "Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium." American Sociological Review 87, no. 3 (2022): 415–442.
- 2021
- Article
Does Fair Ranking Improve Minority Outcomes? Understanding the Interplay of Human and Algorithmic Biases in Online Hiring
By: Tom Sühr, Sophie Hilgard and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Ranking algorithms are being widely employed in various online hiring platforms including LinkedIn, TaskRabbit, and Fiverr. Prior research has demonstrated that ranking algorithms employed by these platforms are prone to a variety of undesirable biases, leading to the... View Details
Sühr, Tom, Sophie Hilgard, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Does Fair Ranking Improve Minority Outcomes? Understanding the Interplay of Human and Algorithmic Biases in Online Hiring." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society 4th (2021).
Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits
Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are ubiquitous, and are deployed by online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
turns out, Eli Lilly’s initial failure with Alimta led the drugmaker to a solution. By carefully examining the data from the clinical trials, scientists found that the drug worked for some patients, but not others—and those patients that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- September–October 2024
- Article
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees... View Details
Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Pan Fang. "Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday." Organization Science 35, no. 5 (September–October 2024): 1660–1681.
- Article
Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to distribute cash generated from their... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Investment; Stocks; Business and Shareholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; United States
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?" Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 88–95.
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee networks form and what advantages they provide to their larger... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
candidate; Rachel Mural, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School; Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby, visiting scholars at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science; HBS View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into new businesses, such as voice AI and self-driving vehicles, they also faced new and challenging questions about user privacy. The European Union had recently... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity
Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr
- 13 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality
Keywords: by Zeynep Ton
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent
By: Pian Shu
Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
Shu, Pian. "Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-067, December 2015. (Revised November 2016.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-041, October 2015.
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
gradually and then suddenly.” Companies will move slowly to deploy generative AI technology like that embodied in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Harnessing the immense pool of data underlying it will require the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
business trade publication estimates that between July and December 2021, SHEIN added 2,000 to 10,000 items per day to its app. Sheng Lu, an associate professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, estimates that LATR View Details
- Program
Agribusiness Seminar
constraints Leverage data and technology to improve decision making, operating efficiency, and responsiveness to customers Defend against commodification and drive profitability through product and marketing innovation Design robust,... View Details