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  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

American political candidates are forecast to spend as much as $12 billion by next November to put ads on airwaves, texts on phones, and signs on lawns. Yet new research from Harvard Business School finds that no amount of money can undo... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • March 2018
  • Teaching Note

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (A) and (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu
Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines the ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to... View Details
Keywords: Public Opinion; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Media; Political Elections; Taxation; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Diversity; Customers; Communication; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; United States
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Giving - Alumni

include your name and intended gift purpose. Receiving Bank: Bank of America, 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 Beneficiary Legal Account: President & Fellows of Harvard College, ADS Account Account #: 9429263621 ACH Routing #:... View Details
  • October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

DO & CO: Gourmet Entertainment

By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
This case is about a global catering, restaurant, and hospitality company, DO & CO, growing geographically with its existing businesses while also adding new brands to its portfolio. The company had $1 billion in revenues in 2015 from its three divisions: airline... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; International Expansion; Operational Constraints; Three-dimensional Growth; Value-added Approach; Brand Acquisition; Airline Catering; Airline Industry; Event Catering; Hospitality; Profitable Growth; Team Management; Competition; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Operations; Brands and Branding; Value Creation; Globalized Firms and Management; Expansion; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Service Industry
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

  Publications August 2013 hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) Improving Value with TDABC By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) combined with outcomes measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Three Levels of CSV - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content provider in order to reduce price competition at the platform level. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-009.pdf Applying the Care Delivery View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

their improved performance creates. “There exists tremendous low-hanging fruit in creating shared value for employees and companies,” says Rouen. “The logistics are not hard; it’s the will. Top management have to be willing to give up a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Science Act (“CHIPS”) passed a few months earlier. Her team had also proposed additional measures for the NOFO. They’d added upside sharing provisions to align incentives. They’d included funding milestones so that only awardees making... View Details
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

of Labor Statistics. US employers added 175,000 jobs, seasonally adjusted, far fewer than the more than 300,000 in March and below the 240,000 analysts expected. For those seeking business careers, success might mean searching beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

Asia Pacific Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore HBS established the first of the School's international research centers in Hong Kong in 1999, the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APRC). In 2010, the Harvard Center Shanghai (HSC) opened, home to a 90-seat HBS classroom, and... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/teach-workers-about-the-perils-of-debt/ar/1 Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Want from Your Products

even better and which were irrelevant. How could they tackle the boring-commute job? Make the milk shake even thicker, so it would last longer. And swirl in tiny chunks of fruit, adding a dimension of unpredictability and anticipation to... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook & Taddy Hall; Consumer Products
  • Web

Help - Alumni

find my undergraduate college when I update my profile. How can I add it to the list? Edit your non-Harvard degree(s) on the Education sub-tab of the Personal tab in your Alumni Profile . If your undergraduate college does not appear in the type-ahead you may request... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Go Mobile stores were located in higher-income neighborhoods and focused primarily on selling phone handsets, Phirbol stores could be found in less—developed areas—most were not accessible by car—and focused on selling service connections (SIM cards) and recharges.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

digital-first incumbents struggle to make the necessary longer-term investments when their investors focus on shorter-term metrics, participants say. At the same time, companies must deliver value at speed. They’re cutting costs through... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 28 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as generous family leave policies,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of business units . More about business unit strategy Creating Corporate Value Added In diversified companies, corporate leaders can enhance competitive advantage by capturing synergies and harnessing fit... View Details