Nationality - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

chain working?’ When Mills worked as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration in the Obama White House, she noticed a secret national treasure: A booming supply chain of parts and services made up of innovative, large and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

5 Sep 2013
Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano

This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details

Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry

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06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

national sample is on USA Today, and it's not the same at all. The first takeaway for them is, you are not representative. This is very important for you to understand, you are not representative. In terms of ads that flop, I think it... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

short-changed, or disappointed ” Other comments reflected the nature of the dilemma, with some advice about what she should do. Philippe Gouamba’s comment framed the dilemma nicely: “As this Nation still believes in freedom of speech and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Making Connections Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Summer R. Jackson : Recipient of the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship in the 2007 (Cairo, Egypt). Rakesh... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

institutions gathered and disseminated knowledge about the country’s biodiversity, an effort that, with government support, led to the creation of national reserves and parks. As with Malaysia, Costa Rica’s relative political stability,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

orientation. I left class thinking I didn't find my group yet and after 5 minutes on the quad, one by one, a group of black women formed and we just gravitated towards each other. We enjoyed one another's presence and the commonality found in our culture despite our... View Details

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Wright, an economics professor at the National University of Singapore, set out to clearly define MSPs, contrast them with traditional resellers and input suppliers, and address the strategic consideration of where firms "choose to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

polls. Thirty-five states request or require voters to show some form of identification, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The remaining 15 verify voters by other means, such as cross-checking a name with a known... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2021
Chapter

Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

By: Sabine Pitteloud

This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details

Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland

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12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

he expects, a key focus for his career going forward. “Whether you call yourself a business, faith, or government leader, the trauma suffered by children who grow up in violent neighborhoods should keep you up at night,” he states. “We are not a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

approach to problem solving.” Inspirations & role models: “Averell Harriman: a businessman, politician, and statesman who by the end of the 1960s was one of the few national leaders who still maintained people's respect. Bill Donaldson... View Details

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

the February Journal of Consumer Research is based on the results of a series of lab and online studies with over 2,000 consumers recruited from national online samples. We tested their response to underdog brand stories. Our studies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

ethnically homogenous saw a success rate 26 to 32 percent lower. Despite such strong correlations, the data didn’t necessarily prove one caused the other, since there are a number of confounding factors that could skew those results. In a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services