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  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study

Keywords: by Christine Exley & Stephen Terry
  • August 2021
  • Case

Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Emmanuel Faber became CEO of Danone SA, the French food and beverage company, in 2014. Right from the start, he ran the company with a dual commitment to both profit and purpose (i.e., ESG objectives). In fact, in 2018, he said, “It’s time to make sustainable business... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Three Decades of Change and Counting

Now in its 31st year, the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) offers rising college seniors who are typically underrepresented in the business school classroom the opportunity to live the MBA experience for one week each... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • June 2011
  • Article

Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare
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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • Web

Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

played in our affairs and for the distinction which your fine Army record and vigorous business leadership have brought to our programs over a period of more than forty years. Yours has been an extraordinary... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Mehta reached out to the student-run Africa Business Club for advice. She also participated in the School’s New Venture Competition. In 2014, Tomato Jos won $25,000 as runner-up in the Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • September 2015
  • Supplement

Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
This (B) case takes up the story of the Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Afghanistan
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  • 02 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

responsibility for their choices. But co-pays would be the same inside and outside of the network. Antitrust authorities would scrutinize system participants so that one hospital system or health plan did... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

At Harvard Business School, 42% of the MBA Class of 2019 are women, and the Women’s Student Association (WSA) is the largest club on campus. Women can face unique challenges in... View Details
  • November 2007
  • Article

The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas
We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community
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  • August 2009
  • Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
Keywords: Business Education; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Summer 2015
  • Article

The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach

By: Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling shareholders (also known as "freezeouts") based on what transactional form was used: deferential business judgment review for freezeouts executed as tender... View Details
Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
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  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • Web

National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Reputation; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goodwill Accounting; Power and Influence; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

The True Value of a Tweet

media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint