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- September–October 2022
- Article
Case Study: What's the Right Career Move After a Public Failure?
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Francesca Gino
“Reunions are for happy people,” Mariani Kallis said to her friend Whitney on the phone. “I’m not going.” “Come on, it won’t be the same without you,” Whitney pleaded. “Besides, no one is happy right now. Everyone’s life is a mess.”
“I’m pretty sure none of our...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Francesca Gino. "Case Study: What's the Right Career Move After a Public Failure?" Harvard Business Review 100, no. 5 (September–October 2022): 144–149.
- June 2020 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Time Out: The Evolution from Media to Markets
By: Kate Barasz and Eva Ascarza
In February 2020, Time Out’s chief executive officer Julio Bruno is evaluating the strategic direction of the company. Over the span of five decades, Time Out — the global media and entertainment brand — had gone from a self-published counterculture publication in...
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Keywords:
Branding;
Media Businesses;
Hospitality;
Hospitality Industry;
Digital;
Brands and Branding;
Media;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategy;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Barasz, Kate, and Eva Ascarza. "Time Out: The Evolution from Media to Markets." Harvard Business School Case 520-128, June 2020. (Revised July 2023.)
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
ride-hailing company Uber, which is thriving in spite of pushing legal boundaries—and fighting its case in court—in cities all over the world. “In some places Uber is hailed as a brilliant company, and in other places its executives are...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers
By: Tetyana Balyuk and Emily Williams
We assess the impact that real time money transfer technology has on consumer outcomes, particularly during periods of financial fragility. We do this by developing a new data set that documents use of Zelle—the most widely used P2P money transfer technology in the...
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Keywords:
P2P Money Transfers;
Real Time Payments;
Fintech;
Finance;
Information Technology;
Personal Finance;
Financial Condition
Balyuk, Tetyana, and Emily Williams. "Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers." Working Paper, November 2021.
- June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Best Buy in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Competitive Strategy;
Ethics;
Management Teams;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Retail Industry
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Best Buy in Crisis ." Harvard Business School Case 713-403, June 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
largest employer for three decades. When Bastian took the helm as CEO of Delta Air Lines in 2016, he questioned why only 21 percent of the company’s 90,000 employees were Black, especially since the company was based in Atlanta, a city...
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- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/hapabapa
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- 2021
- Chapter
The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration
By: Marco Tabellini
Between 1850 and 1920, during the Age of Mass Migration, more than 30 million Europeans moved to the United States. European immigrants provided ample supply of cheap labor as well as specific skills and know-how, contributing to American economic growth. These...
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Keywords:
Age Of Mass Migration;
Political Ideology;
Political Economy;
Assimilation;
Immigration;
Economics;
History;
United States
Tabellini, Marco. "The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, edited by Jonathan H. Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 2021. Electronic.
- July 2021
- Article
Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms
By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look...
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Keywords:
Two-sided Market;
Two-sided Platforms;
Peer-to-peer Markets;
Platform Strategy;
Sharing Economy;
Platform Growth;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Strategy;
Market Design;
Network Effects
Cullen, Zoë, and Chiara Farronato. "Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 3985–4003.
- May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Competition;
Value Creation;
Governance;
Economics;
Business Startups;
Strategy;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Entrepreneurship;
Infrastructure;
Transportation;
Bicycle Transportation;
China
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Haibo Zhao. "Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 819-135, May 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
Spar: The causality goes through a couple phases. If you think about what happened to women in the 20th century, the automobile gave women the mobility to leave the home and go to the city or town and do tasks or a job. The automobile...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Community-First Public Safety
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short...
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Keywords:
Race;
Law Enforcement;
Governance;
Decision Making;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Public Administration Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
- December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China
By: Meg Rithmire
Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United...
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Keywords:
China;
Public Sector;
Private Sector;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Macroeconomics;
Public Administration Industry;
China
Rithmire, Meg. "The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China ." Harvard Business School Case 713-028, December 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit: Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities...
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by Danielle Kost
- 06 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
- April 2020
- Background Note
U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note, written in late March 2020 and mainly U.S. focused, looks at the unfolding impact of the coronavirus pandemic on food retailers and their suppliers. It allows student to consider the challenges facing food retail executives as they navigate urgent supply...
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Keywords:
Coronavirus Pandemic;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Food;
Supply Chain;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Trade;
Crisis Management;
Health Pandemics;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Alvarez, José B., and Natalie Kindred. "U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020." Harvard Business School Background Note 520-098, April 2020.
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
India), and so on? A: We're at the point where half the world's population lives in cities. There is an ongoing debate about whether the overall quality of life is better in cities compared with rural areas. But certainly if you look at...
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by Martha Lagace