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Organizational Change

Don Tomaskovic-Devey

2024
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Webmunk: A New Tool for Studying Online Behavior and Digital Platforms

By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin and Chris Karr

Understanding the behavior of users online is important for researchers, policymakers, and private companies alike. But observing online behavior and conducting experiments is difficult without direct access to the user base and software of technology companies. We... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Technology Adoption; Behavior; Research; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web

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April 2002 (Revised April 2003)
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Malaysia: Capital and Control

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro

On September 1, 1998, the government of Malaysia imposed currency and capital controls in response to the financial crisis that had swept Asia. The controls sparked an enormous controversy in the world of international finance. Some celebrated the controls for... View Details

Keywords: Capital Controls; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Balance and Stability; Globalized Economies and Regions; Malaysia

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18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

given that they're exchanging what they hope is a boost in demand for sure losses on the logistics side," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe. Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail explores the implications of various... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

November 1989 (Revised April 2018)
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Automation Consulting Services

By: Robert Simons and Hilary Weston

Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee Retreat. The three founding partners of a specialized consulting firm are grappling with several difficult questions... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Expansion; Consulting Industry

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02 Sep 2016
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Building a Legacy

me is to build new things. I get very bored. And I would say, while I didn’t well in college I did well in learning the import policy of India, which were three fat books, and I knew them backwards. “Slowly, I moved away from my... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

can share their experiences on IPaidaBribe.com. In its first six months, the website received 250,000 hits and logged 5,000 bribery reports. Healy urges business leaders to take action by enforcing strong anti-corruption policies that... View Details

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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

About Us Linking Policy Privacy Policy Harvard Business School and HBS Working Knowledge understand that the privacy of its users is important. To that end, we have adopted the following View Details

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

1.18 Field Global Capstone 1.0 Academic Information & Policies FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) is a semester-long course offered in the Required Curriculum (RC) Year that requires students to build on what they’ve learned so far and apply it... View Details

28 Mar 2023
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Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

non-experts can similarly promote classroom learning by asking and answering questions. This creates a unique and supportive classroom culture. Your research focuses on data-driven policy making and the design of interventions for social... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

reactions to policies that would seem to benefit them, like raising taxes on those who earn and own a lot more. Why would the poor oppose taxes on the wealthy? Because many believe that they, or at least their children, will eventually be... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

decisions and shipping policies in determining purchase outcomes and profits. Consumers are less sensitive to shipping fees than to product prices, but free shipping for orders above the minimum is a strong motivator for increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

unlikely to suffice. Many voters are now looking not just for problem-solving skills but for specific policy solutions that hold up under scrutiny.Third, Trump is under-leveraging Twitter. Though he feeds his followers a continuing diet... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

its skills and capabilities. Dan Levy, a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School—who taught many of the IDinsight founders in his courses about quantitative methods, policy analysis,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2011
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Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry

with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back up industry action. Conference... View Details

Keywords: pharmaceutical research; Health, Social Assistance

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Considering Concessions: A Survey Experiment on the Colombian Peace Process

By: Aila M. Matanock and Natalia Garbiras-Díaz

Designing peace agreements that can be signed and sustained can be difficult in civil conflict. Many recent cases of successful settlements include electoral provisions, often for rebel groups to participate as political parties. Engaging the electoral process,... View Details

Keywords: Peace Process; Political Parties; Politics; Government; Agreements; Political Backlash; Political Discourse; Civil Unrest; Civil War; Political Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Policy; Conflict and Resolution; Latin America; Colombia

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December 2018
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CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi

Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print... View Details