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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
diversity (can people communicate or not?) and caste diversity (how much do some people want to keep away from other people?). About 90 percent of the population in Nepal is Hindu, but within Hindu society...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
We all know the feeling. After a hard negotiation we make the deal, put down the money, and feel excitement and relief that the bargaining is over. And then the doubts creep...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Wadhwani Q: The Newcomen Fellow is expected to participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities. Can you tell us about your teaching experience here at HBS? I imagine that your previous...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at arrival to the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51811 2016 Experiences in Liberal Arts View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808088 Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible Harvard Business School Case 408-072 From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
characterized by rapidly occurring change with broad impact and high stakes. In these intense times, cracks evolve and women move swiftly to enter into those cracks. In each of these periods, the American...
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by Laura Linard
- May 2011
- Article
The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory...
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The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations across Social Categories
By: Stephen M. Garcia, Max Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor and Dale T. Miller
This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people prefer to maximize profits...
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Equality and Inequality;
Resource Allocation;
Societal Protocols;
Profit;
Decision Making;
Prejudice and Bias;
Market Transactions;
Ethics;
Power and Influence;
Distribution;
Organizations
Garcia, Stephen M., Max Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor, and Dale T. Miller. "The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations across Social Categories." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics: A New Empirical Perspective on Business Ethics Research. Business Ethics Quarterly 20, no. 1 (January 2010): 75–88.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411010.
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- April 2000 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)
By: John A. Deighton
By acquiring Abacus, DoubleClick won the power to serve ads with unprecedented precision, because it brought together Web surfers' online and offline identities. Several competitors had developed advanced systems for serving ads on the web, but DoubleClick had the...
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Information;
Rights;
Internet and the Web;
Ethics;
Competitive Advantage;
Social Issues;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Industry
Deighton, John A. "DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-091, April 2000. (Revised June 2001.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the economic success of fashion designers in the marketplace. (Her research on the market for modern and contemporary fine art in India also bears out this phenomenon.) "One of the most well-accepted...
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- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
these sources of money is actually looking for an economic return. They're definitely looking for a social return. That being the case, I don't think that nonprofits should quickly jump at creating for-profit enterprises. In certain segments like health care, View Details
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by Roger Thompson
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to...
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- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
by too much stuff acquired. She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort. Out will go luxury purchases, conspicuous consumption, and a trophy culture. Tomorrow's consumer will buy more...
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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
that emerge from the cross cutting exploration of one of the toughest challenges our society has ever faced. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 1979
- Case
Food Stamps--1970
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Food Stamps--1970." Harvard Business School Case 380-002, July 1979.
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Ruhr [The Future of the Past: German Capitalism from the Viewpoint of the Rhine and Ruhr] Author:Jeffrey Fear Publication:In Uberschreitungen. Das Wechselspiel von Wirtschaft und Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert [Crossings: The Interaction...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Metals and Minerals;
Investment Funds;
Policy;
State Ownership;
Wealth;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-019, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010...
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Sean Silverthorne