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- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
police, telling these kids what to do.” That observation led to another insight: Tutors, charged with pushing behavioral standards associated with a college-bound, middle-class, professional culture, were questioning their role in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- June 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck
By: Jill Avery and Marco Bertini
For thirty-five years, Dollar Tree, a discount retail chain selling general merchandise, had held its fixed price point steady, pricing all of its household items, food, stationery, books, seasonal items, gifts, toys, and clothing that made up its diverse and... View Details
Keywords: Retailing; Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Discount Retailing; Discount Store; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Price; Inflation and Deflation; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry; United States
Avery, Jill, and Marco Bertini. "Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck." Harvard Business School Case 522-091, June 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
not the case in other parts of the world. In some countries, mostly in northern Europe, people’s economic fates aren’t tied to those of their parents’ so directly. Supporting skills-based education A high-quality education and resources... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
behavior that make this redeployment feasible and sustainable over time. "A vast majority of the initiatives that companies are implementing do not require large capital investments or radical innovation." How companies are... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2009
- Case
Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old
The case contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers, the battle for the US market, the most desirable export target in 2009 due to its large, fast-growing, high-priced market segments. The case allows analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old." Harvard Business School Case 910-405, August 2009.
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
concealment and transparency in modern labor markets and point to an important interplay between the self-presentation of employers and the self-presentation of job seekers in shaping economic inequality. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
media, would need to be rethought. Recognizing that their existing brand creative might strike the wrong tone with people fearful for their own and their community’s health, and anxious about their personal and the world’s rapidly deteriorating View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
shut down and has seen no revenue, with thousands of employees home, since November. 2. Lead by example Managers should model the behavior they want to see in others. If they say employees can leave the office or avoid travel, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1416935 Ethical Discrepancy: Changing Our Attitudes to Resolve Moral Dissonance Authors:L.L. Shu, F. Gino, and M.H. Bazerman Publication:In Behavioral Business Ethics: Shaping an Emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2022
- Case
Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Rural; Urban; Emerging Market; Mobile Technology; Finance; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Demographics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Behavioral Finance; Currency; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Strategy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Consumer Behavior; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?" Harvard Business School Case 222-084, May 2022.
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
the necessary behavioral changes. Poor communication. A change initiative is like the start of a marathon: change will be occurring rapidly in some units, whereas in others it won't even have gotten under way. Change leaders need to be... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of View Details