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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.” Olds focused his initial study... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

number of metrics suggest that the CSE initiative produced substantial improvements in customer service. For instance, customer service scores from the firm's "Mystery Shopper" program have risen... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm

By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Programs; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Trust
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Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm." Harvard Business School Case 506-026, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
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Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors

By: J.J. Zlatev and Rogers, T.
Increasing virtuous behaviors, such as initiating healthy habits, is an important goal for policymakers and social scientists. To promote compliance with requests to perform virtuous behaviors, we study “returnable reciprocity.” Whereas traditional reciprocity involves... View Details
Keywords: Nudges; Reciprocity; Want-should Conflicts; Wellness; Health; Behavior; Change; Well-being
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Zlatev, J.J., and Rogers, T. "Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161, Supplement (November 2020): 74–84.
  • September 2009 (Revised June 2011)
  • Supplement

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (B)

By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Citigroup faced considerable distress in early 2009. In late 2008, the bank had accepted $45 billion in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry
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Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Citigroup's Exchange Offer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-004, September 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
  • January 2008 (Revised September 2008)
  • Supplement

Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C)

By: John A. Quelch and David Chen
In October 2007, the OLPC reported production delays and missed its shipment date. In early November, the $100 PC finally went into production, with initial shipments planned for Uruguay and Mongolia, and mid-month launched the "Give One, Get One" program. It enabled... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; For-Profit Firms; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Computer Industry; Canada; Mongolia; Uruguay; United States
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Quelch, John A., and David Chen. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C). Harvard Business School Supplement 508-065, January 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
  • December 2011 (Revised May 2014)
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ReSource Pro

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr, Elisabeth Koll and David Lane
Matt Bruno, founder and general manager of ReSource Pro, left his job working for a New York City-based insurance program shortly after the World Trade Center bombing and arrived in China. Initially he planned to teach English, but soon the entrepreneurial spirit of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Insurance Industry; Service Industry; China
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Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, Elisabeth Koll, and David Lane. "ReSource Pro." Harvard Business School Case 812-031, December 2011. (Revised May 2014.)
  • September 2009 (Revised June 2011)
  • Supplement

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (C)

By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Citigroup faced considerable distress in early 2009. In late 2008, the bank had accepted $45 billion in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry
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Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Citigroup's Exchange Offer (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-015, September 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
  • July 2009 (Revised June 2015)
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Citigroup's Exchange Offer

By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Citigroup faced considerable distress in early 2009. In late 2008, the bank had accepted $45 billion in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Stocks; Price; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Services Industry
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Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Citigroup's Exchange Offer." Harvard Business School Case 210-009, July 2009. (Revised June 2015.)
  • 03 Apr 2017
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How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

government-industry initiative, why not include in the program an investment in humans as well as bridges? If there is a topic more frequently discussed than infrastructure decay in the US, it’s inequality. Both are important sources of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction
  • December 2007
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Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization

By: Aldo Musacchio and Ian Read
The historiographies of Mexico and Brazil have implicitly stated that business networks were crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Networks; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Supply and Industry; Banks and Banking; Brazil; Mexico
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Musacchio, Aldo, and Ian Read. "Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization." Enterprise & Society 8, no. 4 (December 2007): 842–880.
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with programs ranging from loan... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • July 2010 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

Public Architecture

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Public Architecture is a non-profit architecture company dedicated to creating social and professional change through design for the public good. Public has focused on three strategies to create change: 1) promoting the design community's commitment to pro bono work,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Integration
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Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Christopher Marquis, and Bobbi Thomason. "Public Architecture." Harvard Business School Case 411-030, July 2010. (Revised September 2012.)
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

a series of static comparisons that reveal the impact of a change in one determinant of an option's price while holding other factors constant. The business setting involves a mutual fund board considering the initiation of an option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal

By: James K. Sebenius
Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Iran; United States; Iran; United States
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Sebenius, James K. "Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal." Iran Matters (June 28, 2015).
  • June 2013 (Revised June 2016)
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Ensina!

By: John J-H Kim, Alejandra Meraz Velasco and Christine An
In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; Brazil
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Kim, John J-H, Alejandra Meraz Velasco, and Christine An. "Ensina!" Harvard Business School Case 413-121, June 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

program relative to their peers. Most specifications find weak crowding-in effects or no effect at all for native patenting. Total invention increases with higher admission levels primarily through the direct contributions of ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2002
  • Case

IBM's Reinventing Education (B): West Virginia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes IBM's ongoing Reinventing Education initiative to improve K-12 public education via information technology developed by IBM's engineers and consultants. Focuses on one site, West Virginia, to reveal how IBM and the state created a mutually beneficial... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Education; Business and Community Relations; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; West Virginia
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Galvin. "IBM's Reinventing Education (B): West Virginia." Harvard Business School Case 302-076, January 2002.
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Agglomeration and Innovation

Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

included presentations by Shelley Correll (Stanford University), Pamela Stone (CUNY), and Irene Padavic (Florida State University) and conference cochair Robin Ely. Padavic and Ely discussed why work/family initiatives have failed to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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