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  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United States over the last decade. The book offers an overarching framework for creating and evaluating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2022
  • HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and other corporations to quit serving the country. Eventually, the hashtag #BoycottNestle began trending on social media, as activists supported a boycott of the company for delaying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 2024
  • Report

The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat and Vaishnavee Ananth
Since the proliferation of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s, digital has captured an increasingly large portion of the economy. In this Capgemini Research Institute report, The Eco-Digital EraTM: The dual transition to a sustainable and... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Digital Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Trends
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  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

two separate areas of research-decision making and inequality (or social disparity)-this new line of inquiry could help to break the stalemate that has, until now, characterized the study of inequality and its consequences. Download... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare
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  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Hernando, María Luz González-Gadea, Rafael Di Tella, Agustín Ibáñez, and Mariano Sigman Abstract—Previous studies in adults demonstrated that beliefs and sharing decisions in social scenarios are closely related. However, to date, little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Summer 2012
  • Article

Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
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  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

postings and social media and impressions from informal conversations. “Companies invest tens of millions of dollars on user experience for customers, but don't bring any of that discipline to applicant experience.” That puts employers in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

genders can be helpful, but Coffman adds that it’s also important to understand the many similarities across individuals. One clear trend in the survey data was that men, women, and non-binary people all tended to overestimate differences... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

difference in the standalone utilities is sufficiently large, yields greater profits for both platforms. We further show that social welfare is greater under one-way compatibility than under incompatibility, and there exist no incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

users, and reduce the severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Beyersdorfer, a research associate, coauthored the BP case, "IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance." (Research associate Anders Sjöman was third author on both cases.) In this interview, Miller, Dessain, and Beyersdorfer identify View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

itself from its “nominal” counterpart. "New historians of capitalism present businesspeople as influential actors, but situate them within social networks" Finally, the new history of American capitalism has often taken a more... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

organizational purpose or social responsibility—reduce the overall bump paid to college-educated workers by about 5 percent, finds the study, which Zhang wrote with Nathan Wilmers, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • December 2011
  • Article

Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective

By: G. Jones
This paper uses the beauty industry to explore the impact of globalization over the very long run. As the first wave of modern globalization started in the nineteenth century, there began a massive homogenization of beauty ideals around the world that has, to some... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Business Ventures; Trends; Societal Protocols; Value; Brands and Branding; Perception; Entrepreneurship; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 01 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 1, 2006

fundamental within our society. Race continues to be a critical factor as we examine relationships in organizations, particularly if we are located in a U.S. based context. Race is a socially embedded phenomenon that affects just about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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