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- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Nutritional Information; Obesity; Weight Loss; App Development; Business Startups; Nutrition; Health; Information; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-028, 2013.
- Article
A Persuasive Peace: Syrian Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination
By: Kristin Fabbe, Chad Hazlett and Tolga Sınmazdemir
Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of civil war termination. Contingent on their attitudes, they can either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward... View Details
Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir. "A Persuasive Peace: Syrian Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination." Journal of Peace Research 56, no. 1 (January 2019): 103–117.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
By: Jennifer M. Logg, Uriel Haran and Don A. Moore
Are overconfident beliefs driven by the motivation to view oneself positively? We test the relationship between motivation and overconfidence using two distinct, but often conflated, measures: better-than-average (BTA) beliefs and overplacement. Our results suggest... View Details
Keywords: Self-perception; Overconfidence; Motivation; Better-Than-Average Effect; Specifically; Personal Characteristics; Perception; Motivation and Incentives; Cognition and Thinking
Logg, Jennifer M., Uriel Haran, and Don A. Moore. "Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-099, April 2018.
- October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
NYC311
By: Constantine E. Kontokosta, Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Gulick
Joe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the mayor’s deputies: “Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?” Founded... View Details
Keywords: New York City; NYC; 311; NYC311; Big Data; Equal Access; Bias; Data Analysis; Public Entrepreneurship; Urban Informatics; Predictive Analytics; Chief Data Officer; Data Analytics; Cities; City Leadership; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; City; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
- 2009
- Chapter
Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
Edmondson, Amy C., Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail. "Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition." In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311–332. Psychology Press, 2009.
- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Glass Egg Digital Media
Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Godes, David B. "Glass Egg Digital Media." Harvard Business School Case 508-066, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
studies that highlight the opportunities and challenges facing business leaders and managers around the world, the School relies on the expertise and connections of staff members at HBS’s 18 global research outposts in 16 countries. Under the umbrella of the Global... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
were seeing the elements of a thriving venture capital system," she says. "A lot of the best talent was flowing to tech, and companies needed funding to support founders in different cycles." She and Lemann believed their hands-on... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
your funding decisions on your future. Personal support Exploring and resolving all the above issues can be an exhausting and even lonely process. Take care of yourself by taking pains to create and sustain a network of support, including... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
sports some 80 million likes. Nutella has 23 million on its Facebook page. If fan communities feel supported by their brand, they are that much more likely to come to its defense when attacked. "Your best defense against the haters... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
search process of members, and raise awareness and support for the military among the members of the Harvard University community. In honor of Memorial Day weekend, we checked in with seven AFAA students from the US military. Below are... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
locations differ in their ability to support the frontier, but also due to standard agglomeration. Different industries use different aspects of the internet, and industries tend to agglomerate in some locations and not others. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
ecosystem. It provides students and alumni from across Harvard’s 13 schools with wide-ranging resources and support for creating their own ventures and solving problems through innovation. During Metric’s incubation at the i-lab, Murday... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
There are other cost savings, too, including no need for front-of-house staff such as servers, cashiers, hosts, and bartenders. Restaurant operators simply provide their own culinary staff while the cloud kitchen provider typically offers shared labor View Details
- Profile
Ted Obi
patient-first framework to business are uniquely positioned to affect change and drive efficiency within health care. Coming to HBS is like Being a kid in a candy store. At times, the plethora of resources can be a little overwhelming. However, I’m extremely grateful... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Reinventing the Future of Business
will position HBS and the University overall as global leaders in reshaping the landscape of the digital-first world and the role of business in that transformation. The School is able to launch an endeavor of this magnitude because of gifts to the HBS Fund, which... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
the organization with stretch targets that take all employees outside their comfort zones. In Stage 3, leadership drives alignment of organizational units and is essential for communicating vision, values, and strategy to all employees. Leadership, in Stage 4, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace