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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor Douglas Holt terms View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Daniel F. Gerber, Jr.
to advertise his product for 15 cents a can to build a vibrant wholesale business. The now famous “Gerber baby symbol” was introduced to build brand identity and reassure skeptical consumers. Though it took ten years to build a wholesale... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 2019
- Presentation
The Person You Mean To Be
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to influence economic policy. As Abdelal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2024
- Working Paper
Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
By: Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini
This paper examines the impact of local hostility on the assimilation of refugees. We leverage plausibly exogenous variation in refugees' allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016, and combine representative survey data and administrative records with... View Details
Keywords: Assimilation; Threat Hypothesis; Migration; Cultural Change; Refugees; Culture; Identity; Germany
Jaschke, Philipp, Sulin Sardoschau, and Marco Tabellini. "Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-043, December 2021. (Revised August 2024. Also available from NBER, and featured on Le Monde.)
- 2016
- Flash Talks
Rachel Arnett
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
that they set cunning against cunning and self-adjust to technological innovation.” Although he admits that selling personal information is a difficult idea to embrace, Deighton believes it is one whose time has come. “The challenge is to give people a claim on their... View Details
- Student-Profile
Jaylon Sherrell
gamer, Jaylon has always been fascinated by the creation and re-invention of personal identities in virtual environments. While her specific research is still evolving, she hopes to examine how technology impacts the expression of View Details
- 19 Nov 2020
Diverse Perspectives Series: Leading with Intersectionality in Mind: HBS Alumni Panel
As global leaders, tasked with making a difference in the world – what does it mean to lead with intersectional identities in mind? Hear from HBS Alums on how they do just that and how HBS helped them get there. View Details
- 2016
- Hidden Processes
Lisa Lahey
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
identical in all respects except for guest names. The names included ten meant to sound distinctively African-American (“LaTonya Robinson” and “Rasheed Jackson,” for example) and ten meant to sound white (e.g. “Laurie Ryan” and “Brent... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
an identity crisis to find myself, for the first time, not chasing leadership positions or partner status. To say, “for right now, this is what works best for me.” I worked with the Sorenson Impact Institute and University of Utah to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
personally and professionally. This wasn't about my son’s needs, it’s about my own needs. But it was still an identity crisis to find myself, for the first time, not chasing leadership positions or partner status. To say, “for right now,... View Details
- 2022
- Article
When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-narratives
By: Elizabeth Sheprow and Spencer Harrison
Daily narratives of work can include a mix of ordinary actions and awe-inspiring moments that reveal a vaster, more meaningful reality. When awe is experienced in the context of work, it can prompt self-referential sensemaking about what these experiences mean for the... View Details
Sheprow, Elizabeth, and Spencer Harrison. "When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-narratives." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 170 (May 2022).
- 2017
- Gender Conformity & Nonconformity
Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
you by stores, researchers, and credit agencies belongs to those companies, not to you. They in turn resell that information to others. So if our personal information is such an asset, shouldn't we benefit from our asset as well? Why shouldn't intelligent consumers... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform
HourlyNerd, the red-hot freelance business-talent consultancy launched at HBS by classmates Rob Biederman, Patrick Petitti, and Peter Maglathlin (all MBA 2014), has unveiled a new identity and name, Catalant—“a combination of catalyst,... View Details