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- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- May 2025
- Case
'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation
By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
Keywords: Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- October 2019
- Case
GRIT Fitness
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Plan; Trends; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Management Style; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Sports; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Value Creation; Health Industry; Sports Industry; Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., and Olivia Hull. "GRIT Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 820-016, October 2019.
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
anticipation of offering discounts and the possibility of consumers buying multiple discount vouchers. By demonstrating the importance of these factors, and exploring the relationship between these factors, we hope to help retailers View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the airlines, the cost of miles rewards programs are virtually... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of U.S. government bond returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/MBS_Paper_20140104.pdf Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Abstract An organization's compensation strategy plays a critical role in motivating workers and attracting high-performing employees. Most of the research linking compensation to strategy relies on the principal-agent model of economics, a model that has been largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
Right now, my colleagues and I are trying to find ways to (1) describe different design architectures; and (2) predict the "richness" of the design spaces created by an architecture. Really rich design spaces don't get... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary widely as... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
to be able to contribute to the rethinking about corporate management in the region." Speaking at the dinner that capped the research conference, Professor F. Warren McFarlan, a veteran faculty member who is now overseeing the operations of the Asia-Pacific project,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
about a week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
denial as a particular risk for large, established organizations as much as for young, entrepreneurial firms? Is denial a predictable downside to success? A: Denial is more endemic to older firms because it so often results from stubborn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because of inflated valuations. It could... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the context in which specific CEO candidates were successful. It is all too easy to ignore both the past contextual framework of success and the present one. Are they aligned? Does success in one context predict success in a new one?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
members, will demo the platform’s alpha version and describe our product roadmap. It will provide an advance look at how HBS is leveraging AI in case-based online learning experiences. Predicting Market Bubbles and Financial Crises... View Details