Group Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

group of 25 members of the community who engaged a much broader swath of students, alumni, faculty, and staff, to shape the ideas and goals of the plan. At its core, the plan seeks to advance anti-racism education and research, support... View Details

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin Roth and a small View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, illegal and informal forms of business were commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

against large upfront investment, uncertain market demand, and the complication that the product might face legal challenges. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208072 Gucci Group in 2009... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

facilitated by mechanisms of value recombining, temporal distancing, identity marking, and conceptual bridging and a second phase marked by a redefinition of market boundaries and facilitated by mechanisms of competitive set reclaiming... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

right now and it's about inclusion. It's the desire to be involved in a group that's doing something. So as you think about that, what does that really melt down to? It's about asymmetries of information. It's about the fact that you are... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

fieldworkers and community members make strategic use of the cultural understandings, norms, and identities that govern family, gender, and caste relations to build new community-based networks that promote the rights of children. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“Indian” through the spread of such images in prints, paintings, novels, and later, in Hollywood films . In this card, while the company connects itself through its brand name to the Kickapoo—an Algonquian-speaking group that arose out of... View Details

30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

banking and financial sector. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114 Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential. Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption by Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) (Greenleaf Book View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

improvement programs kept failing. Meliones created a leadership team with representatives from each of the three employee groups to redefine the mission and to develop a Balanced Scorecard that incorporated two apparently conflicting... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

weapon system and rapidly engaging the pickup truck. With the truck still rolling forward, I saw the occupants jump out with looks of sheer terror on their faces. I remember the first time pressing the cross-walk button near Continuum and being greeted by the near... View Details

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Entrepreneurial Acquisitions: The Roadmap for Buying a Business and Leading It to the Next Level By Jan Simon (AMP 199) TellWell Talent In the mid-1980s, a group of enterprising and industrious MBA students at Harvard Business School and... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details