Publications

June 2021
Article

Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions

By: Leor Zmigrod and Amit Goldenberg

Who is most likely to join and engage in extreme political action? While traditional theories have focused on situational factors or group identity attributes, an emerging science illustrates that tendencies for extreme political action may also be rooted in... View Details

Keywords: Extreme Political Action; Ideology; Political Psychology; Cognition-emotion Interactions; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Personal Characteristics

December 2019
Case

The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids

By: Erik Snowberg, Trevor Fetter and Amy W. Schulman

This case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders. In 2007, Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or... View Details

Keywords: Opioids; Addiction; Stakeholder Capitalism; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Launch; Decision Making; Ethics; Social Issues; Pharmaceutical Industry

Educators

Purchase

11 Jan 2013
News

Thinking With Your Body

21 Feb 2012
News

On Ethics, You Set the Tone

17 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen

September–October 2013
Article

Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid

Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers' personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures regarding who they are and who they can be outside of work. Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid consider how the attunement... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Identity; Boundaries; Power and Influence; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Change and Adaptation

09 Feb 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Developing Novel Drugs

Keywords: by Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou; Pharmaceutical

April 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

ConAgra, Inc.: Across the Food Chain

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Carlos A. A Gonzalez

Two years after taking over as CEO, Bruce Rohde must determine how best to deal with the changes affecting this major global agribusiness firm. He must reassess the direction of the company as well as determine in which industries it should participate. View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

29 Jan 2015
News

The Intracorporate Conspiracy Doctrine and D&O Litigation Incentives

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

business phenomenon. And any links between the two—has academic inquiry affected practice, or have evolving practices influenced study of the field? Perhaps the best place to start is with your own view of how the field has evolved. A:... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

17 Dec 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song; Retail; Technology

22 Apr 2013
News

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

06 Jun 2017
News

Will business fill the Paris void?

May 2010
Article

Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein

Cyclicality in the supply of business credit has been the focus of a considerable amount of research. This cyclicality can stem from shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S.... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital; Credit; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; System Shocks; Financial Services Industry

This paper studies the impact of platform-owner entry threat on complementors in platform-based markets. We examine how app developers on the Android mobile platform adjust innovation efforts (rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to the threat... View Details

08 Dec 2014
Blog Post

A New Way to Recruit

day-to-day responsibilities in those fields, and how those positions may affect one’s career trajectory. As HBS students, we are all extraordinarily lucky to be part of a talented group of professionals willing to share our experiences... View Details

September 2014
Article

Accounting Standards and International Portfolio Holdings

By: Gwen Yu and Aida Sijamic Wahid

Do differences in countries' accounting standards affect global investment decisions? We explore this question by examining how accounting distance, the difference in the accounting standards used in the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset... View Details

Keywords: IFRS; Home Bias; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Information Asymmetry; Mutual Funds; International Relations

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