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  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

“Global Survival Kit” condition chose to donate all six items, compared with just 5 percent in the “gift” condition and 3 percent in the cash condition. “The strength of the increase was a really nice surprise,” says Doug Wayne, director of national View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Fast Answer

Executive compensation

report reviews key employee compensation practices at charitable nonprofit organizations based on data derived from the GuideStar database of digitized Form IRS 990 and 990-EZ information. View Details
  • Web

Careers - Health Care

shared. Biotech-Pharma Industry Week Health Care Investing Week Digital Health Industry Week Medtech Industry Week Health Insurance Industry Week Care Delivery Industry Week Alumni Network HBS MBA students are connected to nearly 80,000... View Details
  • January 2015 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!

By: David Collis, Ashley Hartman and Aakash Mehta
In February 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp, founded in 2009, was a relatively young company that employed only 50 people and earned merely $10 million in revenue in 2013. It was one of many mobile messaging services that... View Details
Keywords: WhatsApp; Facebook; Mobile Messaging; Social Network; Acquisitions; Value Added; Strategy Alignment; Monetization; Social Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Communication Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Value Creation; Social Media; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Communications Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-owned Local Businesses

By: Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on a large online platform. We find that labeling restaurants as “Black-owned” increased customer engagement and... View Details
Keywords: Black-owned Businesses; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Ownership; Knowledge Dissemination; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Future Vision

will be crucial. In the arena of digital, data, and design, it’s clear that digital technologies and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations, business models, and businesses around... View Details
Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

make choices about what to eat. Clover Food Lab was founded to convince meat-lovers that vegetables aren't just delicious but have the power to save the planet.” Megan Murday MBA 2021 | Founder & CEO, Metric “Metric is a digital ESG... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Innovation; Product And Process Development; Organization Design; Design Structure; Organizational Ties; Mirroring Hypothesis; Industry Architecture; Product Architecture; Complex Technical Systems; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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  • 07 Oct 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

  • March 2023 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger and Sascha Mader
Founded in 2010, in just one decade, the Swiss company On had established itself as a main player in global sports footwear and apparel. Based on an unconventional strategy which one of the founders labeled as “obsessively distinct,” On grew its sales with a compound... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Germany; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

include, for example, Harvard Business Review’s printing expense. They also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group’s record of consistent growth at a time of significant change in... View Details
  • March 2020 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Racial Discrimination on Airbnb (A)

By: Michael Luca, Scott Stern, Devin Cook and Hyunjin Kim
Facing mounting criticism and evidence of widespread racial discrimination on the platform, apartment rental platform Airbnb needed to decide a path forward. For years, Airbnb had given hosts extensive discretion about whether to reject a guest after seeing little more... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Digital Platforms; Design; Prejudice and Bias; Trust; Problems and Challenges
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  • Web

Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Reformer , New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 258. Chandler, Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer . New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 247. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Employment View Details
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

the Internet, the cost of communications was seen as limiting IT's wider use. Packet switching was invented as a way to digitize voice, data, and video in a matter that enabled digital computers (and its... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • Research Summary

The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Connectivity

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

While investigating how workplace transparency and privacy shape organizational behavior and performance, I wondered about the related effects of workplace connectivity. As new digital tools and organizational forms make it far easier for employees to communicate... View Details

Keywords: Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Organizations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Ben Shiller, Brandeis University

  • Web

Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

World. She has taught at Harvard and Cambridge, and is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for History and Economics. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Transcontinental Railroad in the Gilded Age,” The Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003), p. 23. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918, p. 240. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current... View Details