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22 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

sites ranging from industrial manufacturers of plastic and machines to shipping companies and producers of food, flowers, and other consumables. Across all these companies, the... View Details

28 Apr 2014
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Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
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Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot

By: Julian De Freitas and Nicole Tempest Keller

In early 2018, Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based chatbot Replika AI, was deciding how to monetize the app she had built. Launched in 2017, Replika was a consumer AI “companion app” developed by a team of AI software engineers originally based in... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Subscriber Models; TAM; Monetization Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Product Positioning; Health Disorders; Technology Industry

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26 Mar 2013
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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Keywords: by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez & Stefanie Stantchev

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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the products that you’ll produce with the sewing machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

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Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

litigation and legislation, both in the United States and internationally. Jul 2001 (Revised Jun 2002) Fundamental Theory Task Force Washington, DC Perspectives on Fundamental Antitrust Theory Report View Details

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

accounted for 29 percent. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to map the text of the job descriptions into six distinct clusters of skills: administrative,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but not View Details

11 Dec 2006
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Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff

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Eduardo Avalos

leadership theory I have taken from the HBS classroom. While the sentiment of this statement is true – an effective leader often does so much more. They take responsibility and accountability for the people... View Details

10 Jun 2010
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Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

interests of others as well as your own” or is the effort merely window dressing? Means: Are methods employed perceived, among other things, as being fair? Impact: What are the results, good and bad, and do you take responsibility for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

the energy spent resisting temptation takes attention away from other tasks, but no one had ever investigated it in the context of a work environment. "Our idea was to investigate this theory that says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

differential, with lower domestic rates leading to an increase in local lending at the expense of a reduction in foreign lending. See Falk’s other research here and Victoria’s other research here . More Info A Quantity-Driven View Details

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Shutterstock/Thomas Barrat Twenty years ago in this column we discussed whether the economic activity of that time actually represented the New Economy that Time magazine first touted in a 1983 cover article. Some economists picked up the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

employees make or how many units they produce. “The objective performance measures don’t take into consideration whether the machine broke down or whether someone is still learning the job,” Gallani explains. To compensate, managers often... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Joel Hurd

Coming to HBS is like Getting tossed in the fanciest washing machine on earth with the “heavy duty” and “extra spin cycle” settings selected. What is your most memorable classroom moment? I once argued very bluntly against a case... View Details

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details

03 Jan 2023
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Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

The work of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell offers a high-profile example, Opie notes. Gebru, who’s Black, and Mitchell, who’s white, explored fairness in machine learning as computer scientists at... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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