Publications

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

Feet to the Fire The road to those rewards can be a bumpy one, but the Business Plan Contest gives participants a chance to test and hone their ideas. The founders of Bang Networks, the plan that took last... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Article

Overcoming the Winner's Curse: An Adaptive Learning Perspective

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Brit Grosskopf

The winner's curse phenomenon refers to the fact that the winner in a common value auction, in order to actually win the auction, is likely to have overestimated the item's value and consequently is likely to gain less than expected and may even lose (i.e., it is said... View Details

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01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

Sara Jetty (MBA 2021) grew up in Carmel, Indiana and received her B.S. from Indiana University. Prior to attending HBS, she held roles at BLK DNM, West Elm, and Bloomingdale’s.... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get.... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

would be replaced. But instead we kept those programs, and to exploit improved technology, we added new ones. So the problem of date handling was never addressed. Now we know that an imperfection we're willing to tolerate today could... View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come with the unintended effect of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

May–June 2023
Article

Which Firms Gain from Digital Advertising? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca

Measuring the returns of advertising opportunities continues to be a challenge for many businesses. We design and run a field experiment in collaboration with Yelp across 18,294 firms in the restaurant industry to understand which types of businesses gain more from... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Digital Marketing; Outcome or Result

July–August 2018
Article

Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods

By: Frank Nagle

As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage

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February 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India

By: John Jong-Hyun Kim, Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani

IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated product suite including textbooks, workbooks, assessments,... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; India

30 May 2025
News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

the event received rave reviews, says Fernandez. “For us to have an event of that size, means we had a fairly significant proportion of alumni in the country,” he says. “People came from other Mexican cities, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

February 2023
Case

SIMmersion: Simulating Crucial Conversations

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julian Zlatev and F Katelynn Boland

This case introduces readers to SIMmersion, a company founded in 2002 that creates and sells training programs to firms, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals (B2B and B2C). Their training programs are built around simulations (“sims”) that... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Interpersonal Communication; Training

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

giving first-time offenders, particularly our youth, a second chance at righting their wrongs,” says Huntsman. And there’s the bottom line to consider as well. “All told, it can cost our communities anywhere... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

June 2016
Supplement

Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and David Lane

In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

that was formed in 1993 - issued a final report that calls for a new regulatory framework to give businesses more flexibility in preventing pollution, long-range steps to stabilize the U.S. population, and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

13 Aug 2021
News

New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks

February 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

PCAOB, The (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher

Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the... View Details

Keywords: Law; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Government Administration; Accounting Audits