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- October 2015
- Case
BandPage (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Colin Maclay and Greta Friar
BandPage CEO James "J" Sider is about to receive results from BandPage's targeted advertising campaign on music streaming service Rhapsody and learn whether BandPage's strategy to improve ad click through rates and generate revenue has succeeded. BandPage, which began... View Details
Keywords: Digital Innovation; Digital Music; Digital Marketing; Mobile Marketing; Technological Innovation; Marketing Communications; Music Entertainment; Mobile Technology; Music Industry
Lakhani, Karim R., Colin Maclay, and Greta Friar. "BandPage (A)." Harvard Business School Case 616-015, October 2015.
- Article
Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices." Academy of Management Journal 57, no. 2 (April 2014): 541–562.
- 2009
- Case
What People Want (and How to Predict It)
By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Davenport, Thomas H., and Jeanne G. Harris. "What People Want (and How to Predict It)." 2009.
- 2010
- Article
An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms
By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson
This case study of two offshore oil platforms illustrates how an organizational initiative designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Gender; Emotions
Ely, Robin J., and Debra E. Meyerson. "An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms." Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010): 3–34.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing
By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details
Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
Staats, Bradley R., Melissa Valentine, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-031, September 2010. (Revised December 2010, May 2011, and October 2011.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interactive Communication; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-017, September 2007.
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry
By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution
Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career. Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
of White people and did not study the preferences of non-Whites. Triangulating tennis, golf, and White anxiety The team then moved from fictional cities to hard numbers—specifically, data about institutions historically controlled by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Fast Answer
What are the best finance interview prep resources?
Venture Fizz - Hiring and Breaking in the Venture Capitalist World Coding VC - Behind the Scenes at a VC Fund, Part 1: Deals, Deals, Deals The Glocap Guide to Getting a Job in Private Equity Compensation Compensation data by position and... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
preliminary results of the Retirement Transitions Study in August at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. She is still analyzing the data for a working paper with co-authors Lotte Bailyn of the Sloan School at the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)
discussions in Aldrich Hall, my aim is to leverage data and empathy to advocate for disadvantaged voices, especially as diversity and inclusion face challenges due to the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action. When I travel the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
However, higher wages could also be unrelated to theft if honesty only depended on the workers' moral values, if workers were unaware of wages paid by the competition, or if they overlooked wage deviations by reassessing the value of their own inputs. For the study,... View Details
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Scholar in 2020. Jill J. Avery : Winner of the 2020 Case Centre Award in the Marketing Category for “Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap” (HBS Case 517-115) with Ayelet Israeli. Jill J. Avery : Winner of the 2020 Louis W.... View Details
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
accelerated since the 1990s. (Work by a number of other economists, disputed at times, suggests that inequality of wealth is associated with slowing economic growth.) To Piketty's way of thinking, forces leading to inequality are so serious that they threaten... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
test. They will also affect employment, wages, and union negotiations. Widespread use of temperature screening and tracing of people’s physical movement and health status will generate debates on privacy and data protection. These... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: environmental social and governance (ESG)
What are some of the ESG commands and information available in Bloomberg? Type ESG <GO> to find ESG ratings by company. Type a ticker into the amber box to start your search. You can export the results to Excel. Type ESGD <GO> for the ESG... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
diagnosis and treatment with genomic sequencing and machine learning to solve antibiotic resistance Nix—develops biosensors that analyze electrochemical biomarkers to deliver health and wellness data to consumers RapidSOS—securely links... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
are right in the middle of this. Ripley is at the data center, rebooting things. Juvvani and his team are trying to figure out what's wrong with the Customer Service systems." "Cho? Do we think this might be some kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace