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  • January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Wal-Mart's Business Environment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Labor Unions; Conflict and Resolution; Retail Industry; Los Angeles
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  • April 2008
  • Journal Article

Heart of Darkness: Business Tokens of the Congo (Part 1)

By: Louis T. Wells
Few numismatic fields are as unexplored as the tokens of what was once the Belgian Congo. Although the head (and “extra-wife”) tokens have been thoroughly cataloged, I have found only one very early and incomplete attempt, by Mahieu in the 1920s, to report other tokens... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Mining; Currency; Labor; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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  • 06 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University

    When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?

    To succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and entrepreneurs realize they need to change direction. How that shift is communicated can have a huge impact on a... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Information Intermediation

    Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details

    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Displaced Loyalties: The Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey

    By: Kristin Fabbe, Chad Hazlett and Tolga Sinmazdemir
    How does violence during conflict affect the political attitudes of civilians who leave the conflict zone? Using a survey of 1,384 Syrian refugees in Turkey, we employ a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's... View Details
    Keywords: Syria; Turkey; Refugees; War; Attitudes; Syria; Turkey
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    • January 2017
    • Article

    Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods

    By: Dina Pomeranz
    Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public... View Details
    Keywords: Practice; Public Sector; Research; Policy; Performance Evaluation
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    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference

    By: Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery and Anat Keinan
    In this chapter, we explore how brands' relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency.... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; CRM; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competition; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery

    By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
    We study how career incentives affect who selects into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service. We collaborate with the Government of Zambia to experimentally vary the salience of career incentives in a newly created health worker... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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    • Portrait Project

    Nayely Martinez

    family’s mantra, a daily reminder that each action influences the next choice available to you. Growing up in a hard-working, predominantly immigrant community in east LA, that mantra seeps through my community’s bones, through... View Details
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way

    By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton
    What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perception
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    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (39) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (153) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44)... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    decision. Keywords: Energy Policy ; Climate Change ; Alternative Energy ; Corporate Entrepreneurship ; Transportation ; Transformation ; Green Technology ; Technology Adoption ; Communication Strategy ; Marketing Strategy ; Customer Focus... View Details
    • Web

    Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    and community engagement programs designed to bring together students, alumni, and organizations to focus on real-world challenges while providing the opportunity for individuals to tailor their engagement based on their specific goals.... View Details
    • Web

    Research Services - Faculty & Research

    ensure the seamless execution of around 20 research events annually. In addition, the Marketing and Communications group is available for faculty consultations to promote specific research or to answer more general branding questions.... View Details
    • 21 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

    obstacle threatening to set me back. Growing up in one of the tougher, under-resourced communities of Houston, Texas, I encountered innumerable challenges early on in my life. I felt prepared to navigate this reality. I wasn’t always this... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2023
    • News

    Spreading the Words

    Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Web

    About - Race, Gender & Equity

    About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details
    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing

    Keywords: Re: Mark N. Roberge
    • Web

    Mid-US - Global

    efforts. NOVEMBER 2024 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE Upswell Forum: Accelerating the Impact of Social Entrepreneurs In November, the Social Enterprise Initiative hosted the second cohort of the Upswell Forum, a program designed to accelerate the impact of social... View Details