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  • June 2011
  • Case

Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors

By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson
Reed Supermarkets is a high-end supermarket chain with operations in several Midwestern states. Meredith Collins, vice president of marketing, visits stores located in Columbus, Ohio, an important region with the largest market and the greatest impact on revenue... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio
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  • 14 Mar 2014
  • News

In Grief, Try Personal Rituals

  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Fighting Poverty With Field Experiments: the Nobel Laureates’ Revolution

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Michael is interested in research at the intersection of technology and supply chain in corporations, especially retailers. His recent projects have focused on Human-AI collaboration at retailers. View Details
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • News

Tracking the Effects of High Heels at Work

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By: Ryan L. Raffaelli
Professor Raffaelli's research focuses on the concept of reinvention. This work examines how organizations and leaders manage processes of innovation adoption, institutional change, and cognitive framing. View Details
  • 2022
  • Book

Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

We not only... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 02 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

researchers and practitioners alike: What is the proper balance to be struck by a business between encouraging autonomy so that employees can ignore red tape to serve the customer quickly and efficiently, and mitigating the risk that... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation
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Biological Basis of Economic Behavior

Terry Burnham's research focuses on understanding human behavior, and economic behavior in particular, in the context of humans as evolved animals. This research aims to reconcile two competing views within economics. The mainstream economic view is that economic... View Details
  • 28 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

lived. For Di Tella and his coauthors, the situation presented the ideal opportunity to research the beliefs of those who hold property rights versus those who do not, all other conditions being equal. "In the United States, there... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • July 2018
  • Article

Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Tina Xu
We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Venturing; Personality Traits; Characteristics; Big-5; Risk Attitudes; Goals; Skills; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Goals and Objectives; Competency and Skills; Success; Demographics; Research
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  • September 1997 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

efficient market services: August 1993 (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey A. Farrell
Penny Baron, vice president of efficient market services, must decide how to finance rapid expansion for a young market research company. Venture leasing is a possibility and terms are explored. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Research; Marketing; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Management Teams; Leasing; Service Industry; United States
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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

Unlike Hollywood films, documentaries tend to portray sharks in their natural habitats, as in Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” an annual weeklong programming block of shark videos. But new research indicates that documentaries may also... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
  • 2019
  • Article

Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'

By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management
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  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Entrepreneurs must overcome many barriers to get discoveries to market, but academic researchers face an additional one they might not realize: themselves. Academics tend to develop a myopic focus on the unique expertise they spend their... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • Research Summary

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I am interested in the individual experience of learning in organizational settings, particularly how employees learn to learn from the challenging work they do. I am currently researching the role of reflection for raising awareness of learning opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Intrinsic Motivation; Reflection; Goal Setting; Performance Measurement; Innovation; Job Design; Biotechnology Industry; Consulting Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

research project exploring the views of global business leaders and HBS faculty on what might threaten the world's economic progress. The spread of market capitalism around the world over the past 100 years has lifted the prosperity of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower
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Workplace Stressors & Health Outcomes: Health Policy for the Workplace

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Extensive research focuses on the causes of workplace-induced stress. However, policy efforts to tackle the ever-increasing health costs and poor health outcomes in the United States have largely ignored the health effects of psychosocial workplace stressors such as... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Health; Mortality; Stress; Meta-analysis; Health
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    David G. Fubini

    David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details