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  • April 6, 2022
  • Article

5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership

By: Hubert Joly
The traditional model of the leader-hero who saves the day, knows it all, is the smartest person in the room, and is too often driven by power, fame, glory, or money is not appropriate in today’s environment. People today expect a different kind of leader. While each... View Details
Keywords: Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style; Purpose; Roles; Authenticity; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Leadership Style
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Joly, Hubert. "5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 6, 2022).
  • February 2007
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The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky
We study the formation of beliefs in a squatter settlement in the outskirts of Buenos Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Property
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Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian F. Galiani, and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky. "The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 1 (February 2007).
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What is the Equity Size of Companies Receiving Private Equity in Latin America?: Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2002 to 2008

By: Roberto Charvel
This article reviews the equity size or value of the firms attracting private equity investments in Latin America over time. The information is on post money valuations. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Assets; Entrepreneurial Finance; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Latin America
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Charvel, Roberto. "What is the Equity Size of Companies Receiving Private Equity in Latin America? Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2002 to 2008." Venture Equity Latin America 8, no. 20 (December 15, 2009).
  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Evidence on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting

Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Ross L. Watts
  • March 24, 2020
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Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness

By: Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber
Does prosocial behavior promote happiness? We test this longstanding hypothesis in a behavioral experiment that extends the scope of previous research. In our Saving a Life paradigm, every participant either saved one human life in expectation by triggering a targeted... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Happiness; Well-being; Spending; Behavior
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Falk, Armin, and Thomas Graeber. "Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 12 (March 24, 2020): 6463–6468.
  • October 2010 (Revised May 2017)
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Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University

By: Boris Groysberg, Maureen Gibbons and Joshua Bronstein
It is October 2009 and Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte LLP, has just returned from the groundbreaking of Deloitte University. When completed, Deloitte University would be a world class learning and development center owned by, and for the exclusive use by the employees... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Teams; Competency and Skills; Training; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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Groysberg, Boris, Maureen Gibbons, and Joshua Bronstein. "Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University." Harvard Business School Case 411-059, October 2010. (Revised May 2017.)
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Professor Santana studies consumer judgment and decision making within the domain of behavioral pricing and the subjective value of money. With respect to behavioral pricing, her current projects are focused on how consumers think, feel, and behave in response to... View Details
Keywords: Judgment And Decision Making; Behavioral Pricing; Consumer Behavior
  • January 2019
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Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study

By: Christine L. Exley and Stephen J. Terry
We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with... View Details
Keywords: Reference Points; Wage Elasticities; Labor Supply; Effor; Volunteering; Prosocial Behavior; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior
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Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry. "Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study." Management Science 65, no. 1 (January 2019): 413–425.
  • December 2014
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The Discipline of Business Experimentation

By: Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi
The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As a... View Details
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Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi. "The Discipline of Business Experimentation." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 12 (December 2014): 70–79.
  • July 2015
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Uncharted Play (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage; Female Protagonist; Value Proposition; Team Building; Founders' Agreements; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Sports; United States; North America; Nigeria; Africa
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Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ali Huberlie. "Uncharted Play (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-018, July 2015.
  • 2015
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Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Business managers routinely make decisions that significantly affect the lives of others in both positive and negative ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives
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Hsieh, Nien-he. "Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well." Chap. 5 in Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy, edited by Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy, 95–118. Studies in Transatlantic Business Ethics. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
  • 05 Jul 2006
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Do We Listen to Advice Just Because We Paid for It? The Impact of Cost of Advice on Its Use

Keywords: by Francesca Gino; Consulting
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

backgrounds and characters, but most shared a passion for the beauty industry, combined with an ability to understand the societal values and artistic trends of their eras, and to translate them into brands.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • August 2018
  • Case

MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 with two of the five co-founders of MISHA telling the company’s CEO Michal Portz that they believe it is time for the global venture to shut down its operations and cease investments. Portz and another co-founder believe MISHA can still... View Details
Keywords: Innovation And Management; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Business Strategy; Decision; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Qatar; United States
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Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha." Harvard Business School Case 819-019, August 2018.
  • March 2009 (Revised April 2011)
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Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course

By: Belen Villalonga
Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in the U.S. and Europe and more than two thirds of those in Asia. These companies are the subject of the Financial Management of Family and... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
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Villalonga, Belen. "Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course". Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 209-137, March 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
  • December 2007
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Adoption of Information Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson
Because information technologies are often characterized by network effects, compatibility is an important issue. Although total network value is maximized when everyone operates in one compatible network, we find that the technology benefits of the users depend on... View Details
Keywords: Network Effects; Standards; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Information Technology; Technology Adoption
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Lee, Deishin, and Haim Mendelson. "Adoption of Information Technology under Network Effects." Information Systems Research 18, no. 4 (December 2007).
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I give therefore I have: Philanthropy and Prosperity

We suggest and document a surprising means by which people can feel wealthier: giving their money away. We suggest that just as acts of conspicuous generosity signal wealth and power to others, they trigger feelings of subjective wealth and power in the giver--despite... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

respondent admitted to frequently hiding a sexually transmitted disease from a partner, 64 percent of participants chose that person over the person who decided not to answer the STD question. One explanation for this result may be that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2013
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Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Guo Jia
China Machine Press (CMP), founded in 1952, is a leading multi-field, multi-discipline and multimedia publishing group in China with large scale, comprehensive and specialized business that integrates paper media, audiovisual media and online media, and combines... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Organizational Structure; Strategy; China; China
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Ning Jia, and Guo Jia. "Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century." Tsinghua University Case, 2013.
  • 15 Jan 2007
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The Business of Free Software

How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
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