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  • 15 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Legislating Stock Prices

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
  • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Hormel Foods

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, CEO Jim Snee is weighing how to shape the image of Hormel Foods, one of the largest U.S. meat and food companies, at a time when the industry faces unprecedented scrutiny. Based in the small town of Austin, Minnesota, the nearly 130-year-old firm is best known... View Details
Keywords: Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Risk Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

since when costs are reduced one must be sure that outcomes are not made worse. Outcomes are also essential parts of value based payment plans like bundled payment. In regional and national expansion View Details

    Incremental and Radical Innovation: Design Research vs. Technology and Meaning Change

    The need has emerged for a better understanding of design research and design innovation and how they are linked. In our discussion, we consider design as the process of “making sense of things.” Hence, our questions turn more precisely into the following ones: What... View Details

      Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage

      Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

      • 04 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Shelley Correll, Stanford University

      • Web

      How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

      is engrained in your organization, communicating the impact of this culture to potential new hires is very impactful. Case studies about how your organization has developed more inclusive practices or... View Details
      • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
      • Case

      Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

      By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
      Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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      • Person Page

      Educational Technology

      Streamlined Real-Time Slide Generation and Editing

      Lets an instructor build slides during class, based on class discussion -- "the chalkboard alternative."  Student view offers a clean display with no distracting details (no menus, toolbars, or the... View Details

      • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      CrossBoundary Energy

      By: John Macomber
      Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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      • Research Summary

      Experience and description-based decision making.

      Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

      By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
      Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details
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      • 03 Jun 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Inducement Prizes and Innovation

      Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas
      • 2023
      • Article

      Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

      By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
      Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
      Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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      • 08 Feb 2023
      • Op-Ed

      Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

      Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups,... View Details
      Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
      • 04 Sep 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

      2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • March–April 2013
      • Article

      Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty

      By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
      A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Announcements; Competition; Product Launch; Product Development
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      • 06 Dec 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Dec. 6

      as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 May 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

      authors write. Jobs based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York continue to offer a high-level of job postings with one or more days a week of remote work. Miami, among other... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 14 Sep 2021
      • HBS Seminar

      Dashun Wang, Northwestern