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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
plan, has implications jointly for DCF and stock prices. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210039-PDF-ENG United Breaks Guitars John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 510-057 When social media... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
will be smart to unbundle the services and come out with a pricing table.” As Munyaradzi Mushato put it, “implement an authentic platform strategy where users pay, advertisers pay, and developers pay for the value they get.” Clearly,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
platforms and influencer status to more meaningfully help those most in need. Surveyed consumers deem celebrities and social media macro-influencers to be less credible spokespeople for brands during a... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
consequence of the “scapegoating” that can happen whenever a crisis gets blamed on a particular group. The most troubling aspect of the phenomenon, Luca says, is that the discrimination could have to some extent been avoided if the View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
services to e-commerce platforms like eBay and Uber. “If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users,” Zhang says. Without AI, white hosts earn more Airbnb has faced... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded in finding an engineer to... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
that communities play an underappreciated role in organizational theory—critical not only to occupational identity, knowledge transfer, sense-making, social support, innovation, problem-solving, and collective action but, enabled by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
opportunity that's right for you. Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53337 2017 Entrepreneurship, Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
many industries. Extant papers largely assume that platforms dominate the pricing decision, whereas in practice, prices in business-to-business transactions are often determined by a bargaining process. We study how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
or sculpture from the Tate collection, chosen based on the location, weather, and ambient noise surrounding the shaker. “Often there isn't a lot of strategic thinking behind their decision to be in social media” The provocative app is... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
just think about 100 million people watching the Super Bowl, if you can get another 100 million people posting on Facebook, that's really powerful and very compelling. So, the reach that social media View Details
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-006, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which coaches... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally... View Details