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  • 2001
  • Working Paper

Social Enterprise Series No. 19 -- Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business

By: Joshua D. Margolis and James P. Walsh
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  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Video

Building Leadership Skills in the HBS Live Online Classroom

  • November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

The Auction for Burger King (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and James Quinn
Paul Walsh, CEO of Diageo, must evaluate bids received in an auction of the Burger King restaurant unit. Describes how Diageo came to own Burger King, the attempts to turn the unit around, the strategic reasons for its sale, the auction process, and various bidders'... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Auctions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Tactics; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • February 2024
  • Case

FIGS: Scrubbing the Status Quo

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Nicole Tempest Keller
In October 2023, FIGS had revolutionized the medical scrubs industry with its fashionable and functional designs, but the venture was at a critical juncture. The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) had gone public in a successful IPO in 2021 and reached $500 million... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles; Europe; Canada
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  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Silverthorne: How does your work advance other research done on corporate social activities? Christopher Marquis: Most research on why companies are involved in social activities has looked at the financial impact of such behavior, essentially an attempt to justify... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

(Photo source: Catherine Lane) Giving to charity is the ultimate act of selflessness. We offer our own hard-earned money to those in need, with no thought of return. The reality of altruism, however, is much more complicated, as Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

Studies in December. She cowrote the paper with Pamela Hinds of Stanford University and Catherine Cramton of George Mason University. The authors point to classic research by Dora Lau and Keith Murnighan on... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 09 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer
  • 19 Mar 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

program successful. Neeley, who has studied this unmined subject for nearly 10 years, worked closely on the case with Mikitani, described by some as Japan's Bill Gates. Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

manage talent effectively. It illustrates how law firms can significantly increase the performance, engagement, and retention of their lawyers by giving them the tools to develop and support the development of others. It also describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2016
  • Book

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17

By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Governance; Policy; Economy
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  • 26 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 26

April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

two decades, according to the 2010 case The Smart Grid, prepared by Henderson, Associate Professor Noel Maurer, and former research associate Catherine Ross. When demand peaks beyond the capacity of the base... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was co-organized View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

select reimportation of exported ideas. Put otherwise, top North American journals tend to reimport ideas authored (and exported) by select North American scholars in Organizations Studies. Third, we discuss the implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

marketers as "post-purchase dissonance" and "buyer's regret." He maintains that increasingly these are contributors to depression. Catherine Getches, who asks "whatever happened to the generic aisle" in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

shareholders by attracting customers who support this. A sustainable strategy with a multi-stakeholder perspective means that sometimes trade-offs must be made. As Joshua Margolis and James Walsh point out,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

drugstore.com

By: Richard L. Nolan
On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance.... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Retail Industry
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  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

taught the course. First introduced to HBS in the late 1980s by Harvard psychiatrist and educator Robert Coles, The Moral Leader uses literature to study moral decision-making and leadership. Individual faculty teach the course using... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education