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  • August 2018
  • Article

Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products

By: Goran Calic and Sébastien Hélie
Paradoxes are an unavoidable part of work life. The unusualness of attempting to simultaneously satisfy contradictory imperatives can result in creative outcomes that simultaneously satisfy both imperatives by inducing search for, and selection of, novel and useful... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Business or Company Management; Performance
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  • October 2021
  • Case

Yildiz Holding's Corporate Strategy: Managing Diversification for Growth

By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
The case opens in May 2018 with Nurtaç Ziyal Afridi, chief strategy and growth officer of Yıldız Holding, a Turkish conglomerate, reflecting on the group’s diversification journey. In ten years, the group had achieved a remarkable growth through diversification: seven... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Diversification; Growth Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; United Kingdom; Turkey; Asia
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  • 2009
  • Article

India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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    Controlling Versus Enabling

    Many firms can choose between an employment mode, in which the firm controls service provision by employing professionals, sales representatives or other types of agents, and an agency (or platform) mode, in which these agents take control... View Details

      Aurora Turek

      Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details
      • 22 Aug 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

      balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
      • 27 Jan 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: January 27, 2009

        Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Article

      Eliminating Unintended Bias in Personalized Policies Using Bias-Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT)

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli

      An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those “protected”... View Details

      Keywords: Algorithm Bias; Personalization; Targeting; Generalized Random Forests (GRF); Discrimination; Customization and Personalization; Decision Making; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

      By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
      When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
      Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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      • April 2012
      • Article

      Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

      By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
      Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
      Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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      • Article

      Moving Forward from COVID-19: Organizational Dimensions of Effective Hospital Emergency Management

      By: Mariam Krikorian Atkinson, Nicholas Cagliuso, John Hick, Sara Singer, Elizabeth Bambury, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Masha Kuznetsova and Paul Biddinger
      Federal investment in emergency preparedness has increased notably since the 9/11 attacks, yet it is unclear if and how U.S. hospital readiness has changed in the 20 years since then. In particular, understanding effective aspects of hospital emergency management... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Hospital Preparedness/response; Urban/rural Hospitals; Emergency Management; National Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Effectiveness; Governance; Policy; United States
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      • December 2009
      • Article

      Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
      Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details
      Keywords: Voting; Ethnicity; Behavior; Local Range; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      • 01 Jan 2007
      • News

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

      utilities, financial services, telecommunications, electronics manufacturing, business process outsourcing, and IT. "Our goal is to strike a balance that allows us to find new avenues for growth locally, remain relevant to changing... View Details

        Maya Roy

        Maya Roy is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her interests include labor and health. She graduated from MIT in 2020 with a B.S. in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science. View Details
        • Web

        Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

        Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow Understand key metrics in valuation like time... View Details
        • November 22, 2022
        • Article

        Is Novel Research Worth Doing? Evidence from Peer Review at 49 Journals

        By: Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
        There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones. We investigate the association between novelty and the acceptance of manuscripts submitted... View Details
        Keywords: Research; Journals and Magazines
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        • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
        • Case

        Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

        By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
        The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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        • 26 Jun 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

        of others and for forging agreements that balance the interests of multiple parties. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/918044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-045 Stoy Foods: Role Information for Katrina... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 11 Jun 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: June 11

          Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 2008
        • Book

        Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

        By: Michel Anteby
        Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated... View Details
        Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Governance Controls; Production; Organizational Culture; Practice; France
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