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  • October 2012
  • Case

Riding the Wave of Technological Change at RE/MAX, LLC.

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre and Jeffrey Sweeney
David Liniger, cofounder of RE/MAX, LLC., wondered if his business was prepared to exploit the next wave of business opportunities in the real estate market. This industry had moved from one in which broker/owners controlled all of the consumers' access to information,... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Information Technology; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 06 Dec 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Ron Burt, University of Chicago

  • January 1986
  • Article

Social Influences on Creativity: The Effects of Contracted-For Reward

By: T. M. Amabile, B. A. Hennessey and B. S. Grossman
Three studies, with 195 5–11 yr olds and 60 female undergraduates, tested the hypothesis that explicitly contracting to do an activity in order to receive a reward would have negative effects on creativity, but receiving no reward or only a noncontracted-for reward... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment
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  • March 2024
  • Article

How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics

By: Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling
Firms often oppose costly public policy reforms—but under what conditions may they come to support such reforms? Previous scholarship has taken a predominantly static approach to the analysis of business positions. Here, we advance a dynamic theory of change in... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Environmental Regulation; Business and Government Relations
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  • Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

inclusion, this program emphasizes practical steps to advance women of color and enhance their leadership ability and fulfill their ambitions—while helping others do the same and leveraging the contributions made by different generational... View Details
  • January 2017
  • Case

Kada Orthopedics: A Bone of Contention

By: Kevin Schulman and Matt Strickland
Kada Orthopedics is a small implantable orthopedic device manufacturer founded by industry veterans trying to sell stable-technology products to an increasingly cost-conscious healthcare market. Although they have marginally successful product in early 2016, the... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Growth And Development Strategy; Health Care; Business Startup; Growth and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Business Startups; Supply and Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

family companies is shown in Table 1. Table 1 Structures and Plans to Govern a Family Business System STRUCTURE PLAN CEO TOPMANAGEMENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FAMILY COUNCIL &FAMILY ASSEMBLY 1. Strategic Plan Initiates andapproves... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Double-Edged Sword of Exemplar Similarity

By: Majid Majzoubi, Eric Zhao, Tiona Zuzul and Greg Fisher
We investigate how a firm’s positioning relative to category exemplars shapes security analysts’ evaluations. Using a two-stage model of evaluation (initial screening and subsequent assessment), we propose that exemplar similarity enhances a firm’s recognizability and... View Details
Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation
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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • May 2020
    • Article

    Inventor Gender and the Direction of Invention

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
    We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease-technology, disease-year, and technology-year fixed effects, we find that a 10 percentage point... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Gender; Patents
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    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Video

    Behind the Scenes of the Klarman Hall Studios

    • January 2003
    • Case

    Exchange Rate Policy at the Monetary Authority of Singapore

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is responsible for the country's monetary policy, and its decisions are intended to support the country's overall strategy for sustainable economic growth with price stability. MAS has been very successful in managing exchange... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Policy; Money; Singapore
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    • October 2018 (Revised May 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

    By: Joseph Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Monica Baraldi
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-048. The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 29, 2023
    • Article

    The Fragility of Artists’ Reputations from 1795 to 2020

    By: Letian Zhang, Mitali Banerjee, Shinan Wang and Zhuoqiao Hong
    This study explores the longevity of artistic reputation. We empirically examine whether artists are more- or less-venerated after their death. We construct a massive historical corpus spanning 1795 to 2020 and build separate word-embedding models for each five-year... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Reputation; Arts
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    • 2023
    • Article

    A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal

    By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
    The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Removal; Climate Change; Markets; Cost; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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    • 15 Apr 2020
    • News

    Millions Of US Small Businesses May Never Reopen

    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia

    of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. In a democracy of citizens and taxpayers, such dithering largely comes down to a human foible. “When present losses loom larger than future gains,” states... View Details
    • Article

    Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

    By: Peter DiScioli, Rachel Karpoff and Julian De Freitas
    People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people’s judgments about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership Dilemma; Finders; Psychology And Law; Ownership; Property; Law; Social Psychology
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

    By: Ryan Raffaelli
    This study examines how community-based brick-and-mortar retailers can achieve sustained market growth in the face of online and big box retail competition. The appearance of Amazon.com in 1995 led to a significant decline in the number of independent bookstores in the... View Details
    Keywords: Bookstores; Competitive Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; United States
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