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24 Oct 2008
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Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Andrei Hagiu; Technology

29 Aug 2008
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Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

Keywords: by Guillaume R. Fréchette, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Ünver; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

19 Jun 2008
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Accounting Information as Political Currency

Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting

March 2011
Article

The New Path to the C-Suite

By: Boris Groysberg, L. Kevin Kelly and Bryan MacDonald

Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business realities. Exactly what abilities do firms want in their leaders—now and in... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Leadership; Management Skills; Personal Development and Career

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Social Entrepreneurs, Socialization Processes, and Social Change: The Case of Sekem

By: Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair and Julie Battilana

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Psychology; Social Issues; Organizations; Business and Community Relations

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

save himself from his inner turmoil. Arthur Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at HBS. He is the author of From Strength to... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

projects were pursued with little dialogue with the marketing function. Although Unilever had a strongly networked senior management, the tradition of decentralized authority created in some respects one of the world's least cohesive... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

paywall sales strategy, you have to make sure you have the reputation and the uniqueness of content to do it ” “We look at the whole picture—both the digital and print channels, and the two revenue sources of the firms, advertising and subscriptions,” says study View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

is the author of Remote Work Revolution, and the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Joe Fuller: Stay flexible in the uncertain ‘next normal’ There is no need for a partial return to historical... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

journalist Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003). The author of the New York Times–bestseller The Power of Habit, Duhigg also recently published Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. In their conversation, which is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

e-commerce, and what authorities and what decision rights that person will have relative to the existing divisions." With Fahey listening on, the students dive in. The first few think the position should report to the CEO. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

brokerage trading mainly in cotton—a product that in the United States was no longer as lucrative as it used to be—into a modern ‘house of issue,’” author Peter Chapman notes in his history of Lehman Brothers. [7] By 1912, the Montgomery... View Details

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

done with it. But bringing that one-or-the-other framework to the problem often leads to a misdiagnosis of what is causing poor decisions to be made in the first place, say the authors of Frictions or Mental Gaps: What’s Behind the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

close to real time. Although the study helps identify where gentrification is occurring, it’s unclear what’s causing what. “It could be that people see a Starbucks coming in and say, ‘This is a neighborhood we should move into,’” says Glaeser, an urban economist and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2020
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Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

powerful to see someone who’s very sophisticated still be taken advantage of,” he says. “If you think about how many people in the US lack financial knowledge, you can only imagine what could potentially be happening to them.” About the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds, the authors describe anchors as “generally the first... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

12 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin

31 Aug 2012
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The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim & Belén Villalonga

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in exchange for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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