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  • 26 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
  • 21 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • Web

Publications - Faculty & Research

it-or-lose-it" Provisions By: Louis T. Wells Citation Read Now Related Wells, Louis T. Mining Terms: 'Use it-or-lose-it" Provisions." Columbia FDI Perspectives , no. 415 (August 4, 2025). August 2025 Case REDF: Investing in Employment View Details
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

economics, and econometrics. Here I received training that offered new lenses to examine to the social issues I’m passionate about. I also had the opportunity to dive deeper into my interests through an independent study, and organized... View Details
  • May 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa

By: Elie Ofek and Ryan Johnson
Nike's Football division needs to devise a strategy to excel at the 2010 World Cup games in South Africa. Nike has gone from a niche player in the market for football apparel and footwear in 1994 to a formidable competitor to Adidas in 2008 (with revenues of over $1... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Divisions; Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Planning; Competition; Apparel and Accessories Industry; South Africa
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  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Forest L. Reinhardt

    Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

    Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation
    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

    By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
    As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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    • 20 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    When CEOs Become Activists

    issues that are not directly related to their companies’ bottom lines” “This is distinct from traditional corporate social responsibility, where you can clearly see the connection to promoting the company’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
    • 17 Oct 2016
    • HBS Case

    Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

    farmers, academics, policy makers, and social service organizations. “We’re seeing a movement to rethink what we are doing as a food industry and as consumers,” says José Alvarez, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who was once... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
    • March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    Oprah!

    By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
    Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Wealth; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Biography; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Systems of distributed innovation—so-called business ecosystems—have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Innovation and Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Intellectual Property; Rights; Governance Controls
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    • Article

    Maimonides' Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability

    By: Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli, Kyle A. Thomas and Steven Pinker
    Why do people esteem anonymous charitable giving? We connect normative theories of charitability (captured in Maimonides’ Ladder of Charity) with evolutionary theories of partner choice to test predictions on how attributions of charitability are affected by states of... View Details
    Keywords: Charity; Reciprocity; Partner Choice; Common Knowledge; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Knowledge; Perception
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    • 2011
    • Article

    How Do Networks Matter? The Performance Effects of Interorganizational Networks

    By: Ranjay Gulati, D. Lavie and Ravi Madhavin
    A growing body of research suggests that an organization's ties to other organizations furnish resources that bestow various benefits. Scholars have proposed different perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but... View Details
    Keywords: Management Systems; Organizational Design; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research; Perspective; Value
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    • Article

    Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans

    By: John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman and Joshua Schwartzstein
    People make personal plans regarding whether, when, where, and how to undertake certain actions. We discuss three questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Planning
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
    Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
    • December 2013
    • Article

    Reputational Contagion and Optimal Regulatory Forbearance

    By: Alan Morrison and Lucy White
    Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank contagion. One bank's failure may undermine confidence in... View Details
    Keywords: Reputation; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 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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    • 17 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

    economy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54694 in press Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated with Greater Social View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

    Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna