FAR - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2019
News

Why the Market Yawned When Yahoo Was Hacked

28 Dec 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Tech Clusters

Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

30 Apr 2013
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When It Comes To Productivity, Technology Can Hurt And Help

18 Mar 2009
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Enhance Your Overseas Experience

09 Nov 2020
Video

Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains how BRAC functions as a learning organization. He provides an example from west Africa, where the NGO discovered that the children attending the clubs it had established suffered far... View Details

October 2019
Case

Kaspi.kz IPO

By: Victoria Ivashina and Esel Çekin

This case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Central Asia

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28 Mar 2013
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The Delicate Art of Giving Feedback

15 Jun 2011
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Harvard's Lion of Entrepreneurship Packs Up His Office

2020
Working Paper

Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States

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Building Career Foundations

Building Career Foundations is a multi-dimensional longitudinal project that focuses on the career development of MBAs from HBS, the Class of 1996. Employing a relational approach to career development, Higgins... View Details

May 2022
Case

The NFL’s $110-Billion Media Rights Deals

By: Anita Elberse and Elizabeth Warner

On March 18, 2021, Brian Rolapp, chief media and business officer at the National Football League (NFL) presented the results of a months-long effort to renegotiate rights deals with the NFL’s current partners in television—the media conglomerates behind the networks... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Media; Marketing; Strategy; General Management; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry

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15 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Discovering a new organization and state as an intern

I have a tendency to plan rather far in advance (huge understatement), so I was pretty psyched to get the MBA intern calendar from Walmart in my email prior starting my internship. Opening it was actually overwhelming- there is literally... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

23 Aug 2018
News

Is “Gender-Neutral” Just A Beauty Buzzword — Or Something Greater?

05 Oct 2016
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Wells Fargo Scandal Is Par For The Course In The Long History Of Big Business Corruption

Achieving Individual — and Organizational — Value With AI

New research shows that employees derive individual value from AI when using the technology improves their sense of competency, autonomy, and relatedness. Likewise, organizations are far more likely to obtain value from AI when their workers do. This report... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

were only logical creatures, this would not be a problem. But we are not. Far from it . We see this problem all the time when people are trying to help an organization deal with a changing environment or to exploit a new and significant... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

March 1995 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd.

By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson

CIBA-GEIGY is a large, diversified multinational corporation that transforms itself in the 1990s through a massive structural and cultural change. The case describes the changes implemented and the processes used to effect change in portfolio, people, and structures.... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy

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