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    Jonas Heese

    Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School. He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

    By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
    Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

    system in Germany is more cumbersome than the U.S. system. Germans are more formal in their interpersonal behavior inside corporations than Americans, which often leads to an appearance of stuffiness or stiffness. The use of titles or... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2023
    • Article

    A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination among Patients with an Upcoming Primary Care Visit

    By: Mitesh S. Patel, Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Seung Hyeong Lee, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
    Purpose: To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates.
    Design: Randomized, controlled trial.
    Setting: Two health systems in the Northeastern US between September 2020 and... View Details
    Keywords: Vaccination; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Technology; Behavior; Health Industry
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    • December 2019
    • Case

    Steemit: A New Social Media?

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
    This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Economic Systems; Money; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Design; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Reputation; Business Strategy; Competition; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Virginia; New York (city, NY)
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    • May 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Baskits Inc.

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 217-001. Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) acquired Baskits, a Canadian gift basket company, in October of 2014. The business was highly seasonal with two-thirds of its sales occurring in November and December. Baskits dealt with its seasonality... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Performance Improvement; Canada
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    • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008

    By: Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson and David Scharfstein
    On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,... View Details
    Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Financial Crisis; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    acquiesced to these questionable transactions. Enron's sophisticated risk analysis and control system also experienced serious breakdowns. These breakdowns, along with management's increasing aversion to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • July 2024 (Revised December 2024)
      • Background Note

      District Heating: An Overview

      By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
      This note provides an overview of district heating: systems in which central plants generate heat that is conveyed by steam or water through a set of insulated pipes to send heat to residential and/or commercial buildings. It describes key elements of the system (heat... View Details
      Keywords: Decarbonization; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Energy Transmission; Construction; Energy; Buildings and Facilities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Climate Change; Operations; Energy Industry; Denmark; Europe; United States
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      • June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries

      By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin
      Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details
      Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait
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      • 04 Jun 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

      emerged from bankruptcy. “I did the quick calculation that you could buy and control all the US (gun) capacity for about $2 billion,” he said. His colleague sitting nearby, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, chimed in. “As the owner, you could do... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation
      • November 2023
      • Supplement

      'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)

      By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia Comeau
      Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines
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      • 12 Nov 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

      Consumers today have more control than ever over the way they choose goods and services—from browsing freely at grocery stores to managing their own financial assets. Perhaps consumers should also have a greater sense of empowerment when... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
      • 21 Aug 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

      Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S.... View Details
      Keywords: by Ann Cullen
      • September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
      • Teaching Note

      Roche: Innovation and Access to Healthcare

      By: George Serafeim
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to... View Details
      Keywords: ESG; Access To Care; Healthcare; Healthcare Access; Innovation; Social Impact; Affordable; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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      • November 2006 (Revised October 2017)
      • Case

      China: 'To Get Rich Is Glorious'

      By: Richard Vietor and Julia Galef
      In 1978, Deng Xiaoping assumed the leadership of an impoverished China, after Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution. During the next 17 years, Deng applied pragmatic policies to liberalize the Chinese economy gradually while maintaining the power of the Communist... View Details
      Keywords: History; Leadership; Privatization; Policy; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; China
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      • June 20, 2013
      • Article

      The Tyranny of Minority Shareholders

      By: Josh Baron and Henry Foley
      The article discusses challenges arising from minority ownership in the context of the proposed Empire State Building IPO. It emphasizes the complexities that minority shareholders can introduce in business decisions when families take their assets public. The article... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Ownership; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Power and Influence
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      • Feb 2014
      • Case

      Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation

      areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back to health and focus on innovation, but the overall system itself and its governmental connections need attention, including the desire for NextGen air traffic... View Details
      • Article

      Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse

      By: Benjamin Edelman
      Web users face considerable fraud, malfeasance, and economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic... View Details
      Keywords: Online Technology; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Economics; Law
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