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  • July 2023
  • Article

So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov
With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details
Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
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Economic Development in Rural Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

harness the efficient spatial distribution of economic activity rather than attempt to replicate urban economies A single national rural policy is unlikely to be meaningful and successful Each community should bear responsibility for its... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

replicator dynamics or economies,1 transcends even what Shapiro and Varian (1999) call the “economic principles of information”. Shapiro and Varian suggest that, while the fixed costs of producing data may be high, the costs of using them... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

same time, she says the current problems aren’t likely to dim the high regard other nations place on the Swedish model, in part because none of them have managed to replicate it. While she sees strong echoes of the model in Taiwan, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

successful hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, which has allowed him to fund his sprawling scientific philanthropy operation. Rodakis hopes his firm can replicate even some small portion of that. The work is never done, though. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

meetings, and made an effort to replicate them online, “the results were striking,” the researchers write. “The challenge of replicating ‘hallway’ conversations via digital communication led interviewees to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

  • Profile

Pam Chan

insisted that she "at least check out the application process. I sat in on an entrepreneurship class at HBS. The case replicated experiences I had with a client – I realized cases spoke to real-life experiences I could... View Details
Keywords: CPG; Tech
  • Research Summary

Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
  • January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin
Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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  • 13 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

they were more likely to be poor listeners. The research team replicated these results in four more studies. In one of the later studies, the researchers discovered that people deemed very extroverted were also rated highly in the ability... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 15 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

associate professor at Harvard Business School. “But we also find that a surprisingly large degree of information avoidance doesn't appear to be related to such excuse-driven motives.” By replicating past experiments that sought to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz

    The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

    The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

    • 18 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

    it to start a competing cola company today, could he really compete with Coca-Cola? Assuming he could overcome the decades of accumulated brand loyalty among Coca-Cola customers, there are a lot more trade secrets he would need steal from Coca-Cola. He would need to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
    • Research Summary

    Output and asset price fluctuations

    What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details

    • 2007
    • Text Book

    Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career
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    • July–August 2021
    • Article

    Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton
    Problem definition: As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. Academic/practical relevance: We propose that in co-productive settings like government services, peoples’ trust and... View Details
    Keywords: Government Services; Behavioral Operations; Operational Transparency; Government Administration; Service Operations; Programs; Perception; Attitudes; Behavior; Trust
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    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    highly integrated. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system rather than copy just one or two discrete product features or ways of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • 19 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The History of Beauty

    perfumes were reminiscent of one individual "note"—to employ the musical metaphor used in the industry—which tried to replicate nature. The new perfumes had a vastly increased range of scents; were far more abstract, with three notes; and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 21 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

    access to the full range of resources at HLS and HBS.  Viroopa: The support you get from both schools cannot be replicated with any other experience. It is so diverse and overarching that you really feel that you can achieve anything that... View Details