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- 27 Dec 2014
- News
Excusing selfishness in charitable giving: The role of risk
- 31 Dec 2013
- News
Feeling Nervous? Don't Try to Calm Down—Get Excited
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
company is just acquiring the stores for their locations, and plans to phase out the Whole Foods brand. Assuming that Amazon wants Whole Foods to succeed, however, it might do well to consider the benefits of the grocery chain’s... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
The classic advice to investors is to diversify—put wealth into a combination of assets. Perhaps some cash goes into mutual funds, some in blue chips, and a little in growth stocks, spreading out risk as well as opportunity. What if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2024
- News
Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era
his appointment, Lin noted his interest in the new role was due in part to how well the organization’s vision aligned with his “own personal and professional values and what we have been building at Rideback.” “There is such a strong... View Details
- Web
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
capacity cost rates to allocate resource costs, has become the gold standard in measuring the true costs of health care delivery and well described in a growing literature. Currently, process mapping in health care is sporadic, covering... View Details
- Web
ハーバード - Global
a global hydrogen supply chain. The initiative was in line with Japan's energy strategy, as the country seeks to transition to clean energy. The company faced challenges such as the high cost of hydrogen production, uncertainty of demands, as View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)
By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel
In early 1997, Smith Breeden Associates, a money management and consulting firm, was pondering the future of the Equity Plus Fund. The Equity Plus Fund was an S&P enhanced-index fund that tried to outperform the S&P Index by replicating the index using low-cost... View Details
Keywords: Assets; Cash; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Mortgages; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry
Merton, Robert C., and Alberto Moel. "Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 297-089, February 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
- April 6, 2023
- Article
A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint
By: Scott Duke Kominers and 1337 Skulls Sers
In an NFT project, the mint—the process by which tokens are initially allocated—largely determines who your community is and how they and the broader market view the project going forward. In this piece, we review a new minting strategy recently introduced by 1337... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Mechanism Design; Sales Management; Sales Model; Crypto Economy; Non-fungible Tokens; Networks; Product Launch; Auctions; Market Design
Kominers, Scott Duke, and 1337 Skulls Sers. "A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint." a16zcrypto.com (April 6, 2023).
- December 2022
- Article
Kindness in Short Supply: Evidence for Inadequate Prosocial Input
By: Jennifer E. Abel, Preeti Vani, Nicole Abi-Esber, Hayley Blunden and Juliana Schroeder
In everyday life, people often have opportunities to improve others’ lives, whether offering well-intentioned advice or complimenting someone on a job well done. These are opportunities to provide “prosocial input” (information intended to benefit others), including... View Details
Abel, Jennifer E., Preeti Vani, Nicole Abi-Esber, Hayley Blunden, and Juliana Schroeder. "Kindness in Short Supply: Evidence for Inadequate Prosocial Input." Art. 101458. Current Opinion in Psychology 48 (December 2022).
- 2020
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower
By: Jeffrey Rayport and John J. Lafkas
The Opower podcase materials contain audio from professor Jeffrey Rayport's interview with Ben Foster, the former vice president of product management at Opower, and more recently the co-founder of Prodify. In the podcase, Ben discusses how product management works in... View Details
Keywords: Product; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Conflict Management; Software
Rayport, Jeffrey, and John J. Lafkas. "Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower." Harvard Business Publishing Podcase, HBS No. 7223, 2020. Audio.
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question... View Details
- Article
Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows
By: Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro and Karim R. Lakhani
Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such value is the collective flow of knowledge among community participants. We distinguish the... View Details
Faraj, Samer, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows." Information Systems Research 27, no. 4 (December 2016): 668–684.
- February 1, 2019
- Article
What Theresa May Might Learn from Woodrow Wilson's Failed Negotiations in 1919
By: Deepak Malhotra
On December 13, 2018, UK Prime Minister Theresa May met with her European counterparts in an attempt to renegotiate the “Brexit deal” she had reached with them only weeks earlier; the deal was facing harsh criticism and almost certain rejection at home. Perhaps only... View Details
Malhotra, Deepak. "What Theresa May Might Learn from Woodrow Wilson's Failed Negotiations in 1919." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 1, 2019).
- September 2017
- Case
NBCUniversal Telemundo: Transforming Latino Television
By: Henry W. McGee, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Christine Snively
In August 2017, Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, considered how the Miami-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo could succeed in a rapidly shifting media landscape. Over the past few years,... View Details
Keywords: Television Industry; Television Advertising; Broadcasting; Telecommunications; Internet; Television Entertainment; Internet and the Web; Advertising; Digital Platforms; Digital Marketing; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Miami
McGee, Henry W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Christine Snively. "NBCUniversal Telemundo: Transforming Latino Television." Harvard Business School Case 318-018, September 2017.
- 2017
- Chapter
Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter places the concepts of ethical capitalism developed by the 19th century Japanese venture capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Business Ethics; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business History; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Jones, Geoffrey. "Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism." Chap. 7 in Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective, edited by Patrick Fridenson and Takeo Kikkawa, 144–169. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case
By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant and Lee Doolan
Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity, for predicting defects has been given a lot of attention over the years and has proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and vulnerabilities are limited in scope and findings.... View Details
Keywords: Software; Architecture; Coupling; Vulnerabilities; Applications and Software; Complexity; Measurement and Metrics
Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan. "Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-078, February 2017.