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December 2021
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Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations Use Negative Emotional Content and Elicit User Engagement Similarly

By: Andrea Bellovary, Nathaniel Young and Amit Goldenberg

Negativity has historically dominated news content; however, little research has examined how news organizations use affect on social media, where content is generally positive. In the current project we ask a few questions: Do news organizations on Twitter use... View Details

Keywords: Negative Press; Twitter; Political Affiliation; Affect; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Emotions; Perspective; Social Media

30 Nov 2010
News

The Foreclosure Pileup: More Bad News for the US Economy

21 Apr 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

Keywords: by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini

August 23, 2018
Article

Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost

By: Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley

Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management

February 1991 (Revised April 1992)
Teaching Note

New York Against AIDS (A) & (B) and Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A) & (B), Teaching Note

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Teaching Note for (9-590-036), (9-590-037), (9-590-105), and (9-590-106). View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Advertising Campaigns; Advertising Industry

August 2014 (Revised November 2015)
Case

Rick's Dilemma

By: Arthur I. Segel, Charles F. Wu, Siddharth Yog and Ben Eppler

In 2014, Rick is serving as a trustee for a large family trust whose principle asset is a plot of prime real estate in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The land is currently subject to a ground lease which pays $4.6 million annually, with resets every 20 years at 4.5%... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; New York Property; Appraisal Methods; Valuation Methodologies; Property; Finance; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY); United States

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23 Apr 2016
News

New rules for a new economy

18 Mar 2022
News

How the United States Can Use Trade Policy to Prevent a New Sino-Russian Alliance

2011
Article

Smart News Feeds for Social Networks Using Scalable Joint Latent Factor Models

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Angshu Rai and Srujana Merugu

14 Feb 2017
News

Senate Conflicts Aren't New — And They Used To Be Much Bloodier

02 Dec 2019
News

The World Is Doing Much Better Than the Bad News Makes Us Think

February 2010
Teaching Note

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (TN) (A) (B) & (C)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Clayton S. Rose

Teaching Note for [210016], [210025], and [210028]. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; New York (state, US)

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How New Top Managers Use Control Systems as Levers of Strategic Renewal

By: R. Simons

Keywords: Management; System; Strategy

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Improving the Acceptance and Use of New Technology: Organizational and Inter-organizational Challenges

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Attitudes

2016
Working Paper

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy-making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Competition; United States

01 Dec 2006
News

Humor Us

As a Harvard undergraduate and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Robert Hoffman (MBA ’72) “helped spin the popular campus humor magazine into an irreverent national institution that skewered American culture and later spawned movies like Animal House,” the View Details

December 1995 (Revised February 1999)
Case

Toys "R" Us Japan

By: Debora L. Spar

Documents the American retailer's process of entry into the Japanese toy market. Discusses the history of Toys "R" Us in the United States as well as the history of the Japanese toy market, distribution, wholesaling, and retailing systems. Eager to enter the world's... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Retail Industry; Japan; United States

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June 2008 (Revised August 2008)
Case

World Wildlife Fund US

By: Jane Wei-Skillern and Kerry Herman

World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to achieve its mission of protecting natural wildlife and resources. In contrast to traditional... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; Integration; Sumatra; United States

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