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  • Summer 2011
  • Article

Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

By: Mukti Khaire
Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details
Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India
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  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Victoria Ivashina JUNE 2020 For emerging market economies (EMEs), foreign bank loans are the most important category of cross-border capital flows, and they are denominated primarily in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection... View Details
  • February 2024
  • Article

Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin and Joe C Magee
This research addresses the long-standing debate about the determinants of sex/gender differences. Evolutionary theorists trace many sex/gender differences back to natural selection and sex-specific adaptations. Sociocultural and biosocial theorists, in contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Genetics; Power and Influence; Social Issues
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  • April 2020
  • Background Note

U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note, written in late March 2020 and mainly U.S. focused, looks at the unfolding impact of the coronavirus pandemic on food retailers and their suppliers. It allows student to consider the challenges facing food retail executives as they navigate urgent supply... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Food; Supply Chain; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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  • 28 Feb 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Kartik Hosanagar, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

  • 17 Jan 2024
  • HBS Case

Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues

is the most appealing and at the same time the most profitable for the company,” Ofek says. Companies can also use tiered pricing to attract different groups of customers, in which case they need to clearly differentiate the offerings in each View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 24 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

focus on specific categories of work experiences, applicants should focus on the roles, responsibilities, and what they have learned from the types of work experiences in which they were involved. We will look at the nature of an... View Details
  • Web

Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

impact investing has emerged as a new, fast-growing category of private investing, so too has the awareness of the stark disparity between access to capital among small business owners. The course will help students understand why certain... View Details
  • Web

ハーバード - Global

categories and a wider consumer segment. The company needs to decide on the features that would go into the new membership service while being careful not to cannibalize their core product. In Case B, set in spring 2017, the company has... View Details
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

(p.p.) less of their labor income overall, which is driven by a 15.5 p.p. decrease in the share of income spent on necessities and a 1.9 p.p. decrease in the share of income spent on indulgences. Examining differences in spend by expenditure View Details
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

a window into what data-driven regulation of digital platforms should look like in the future—deeply grounded both in the analysis of consumers behavior on the platform and complementing existing regulatory standards. “What’s fascinating about this View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

real world events, on that end of the spectrum. Audiences exchange precious time off from long jobs to engage with entertainment. I feel the stories they turn to should inspire them, uplift them, and at least, do what the category name... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sponsored Links’ or ’Advertisements’?: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Duncan S. Gilchrist; Advertising; Technology
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

Monster.com or Indeed, and others designed specifically to recruit high-quality candidates from racial minority groups. Jackson observed that ShopCo leaders reacted with distaste to recruitment platforms in the second category that took a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 05 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

including whether the move to online sales during this time period spurred consumers to pay more for products. While they saw some categories were more affected by online shopping than others, web shopping “really doesn't seem to explain... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

permanent stockouts affected most countries and sectors. In the US, stockouts rose from a pre-pandemic level of 19 percent to more than 35 percent by early May 2020. Stockouts started in health and personal goods but spread to other View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

closely, the researchers conducted an online survey of nearly 600 people in the United States, asking them to recall their social interactions the previous day and categorize them into categories like stranger, acquaintance, friend, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

candidates in an efficient manner, but in doing so systematically exclude several categories of qualified workers, including caregivers, veterans, the formerly incarcerated, those with disabilities, etc. These workers are “hidden” by... View Details