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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

By: William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln and Prachi Mishra
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998–2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly... View Details
Keywords: Lobbying; Political Economy; H-1B; Business Ventures; Policy; Government Legislation; Immigration; Business and Government Relations; Research; Prejudice and Bias
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  • May 2011
  • Article

Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited

By: Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Since 2008 kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or... View Details
Keywords: ABO Incompatibility; Allosensitization; Paired Kidney Exchange; Regional Sharing; Simulation Models; Transplantation Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Logistics; United States
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Technology, Identity, and Inertia: Through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company'

By: Mary Tripsas
Organizations often experience difficulty when pursuing new technology. Large bodies of research have examined the behavioral, social, and cognitive forces that underlie this phenomenon; however, the role of an organization's identity remains relatively unexplored.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Perception; Technology Adoption
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Allocating Marketing Resources

By: Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Marketing is essential for the organic growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

OXO International

By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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  • 12 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Dennis Zhang, Washington University, St. Louis

  • 17 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Kevin Boudreau, Harvard Business School, London Business School

    Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details
    • Blog

    Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader

    backgrounds and professional experience to the table—they can provide valuable guidance and elicit significant new insights. Executives tell us that coaching is an extremely valuable part of their program experience. Markus Messerer, who... View Details
    • 03 Jun 2020
    • News

    How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

    Keywords: Rebecca Carnahan; Remote work
    • 25 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

    open-source standards were introduced. These eliminated restrictions on who can access and control the routers’ technical specifications. “We could keep track of everything. With other industries, you just can't do that.” In all, the researchers tracked the View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Mark Schwartz

    Mark Schwartz approaches his position as president and CEO of Soros Fund Management not as a new job but as a second career. It is the switch he sought after 22 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was named partner in 1988, president of the Japan group in 1997, and... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Book

    Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

    in AI, eclipsing most other firms and universities in the number of publications and patents. What did it mean for Google to be AI first? Pichai wasn’t talking about introducing a new AI-inspired product or launching a few pilots View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Globalization - Faculty & Research

    differentiated digital platform. Students must evaluate whether Boutiqaat should establish flagship stores to deepen its omnichannel retail footprint or focus on expanding internationally beyond the Gulf and Jordan. The case explores platform strategy, influencer... View Details
    • Web

    Getting Started - Alumni

    and cover letter templates, and learn how fellow alumni made a career change. Find a Job Find a Job Find a Career Coach Did you know that HBS alumni get 6 complimentary coaching sessions a year? Learn How a Career Coach Can Help You Find a Career Coach The coaching... View Details
    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Home Economics

    Laidler-Kylander. In the last four decades, Trickle Up has served 445,000 women—a life-changing experience for those individuals, their families, and their communities. (Participants in the program typically invest in areas like nutrition... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • News

    Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

    venture capital with Citicorp. "The industry was much, much smaller in those days," he says. "A few hundred million dollars a year, versus almost a hundred billion today." Drawing on his experience with Morgan Stanley since 1986, he... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 24 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    “I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences

    Keywords: by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change

    By: Jennifer Petriglieri and Elizabeth Sheprow
    Through an inductive study of executives reporting persistent loneliness at work, we examine how problematic work experiences can be rooted in the self through narratives, and the process by which they can be uprooted. In the case of loneliness, we found that... View Details
    Keywords: Lonelines; Narratives; Qualitative Method; Well-being; Emotions; Employees
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    • April 2025
    • Article

    Serving with a Smile on Airbnb: Analyzing the Economic Returns and Behavioral Underpinnings of the Host’s Smile

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Elizabeth Friedman, Kannan Srinivasan, Ravi Dhar and Xupin Zhang
    Non-informational cues, such as facial expressions, can significantly influence judgments and interpersonal impressions. While past research has explored how smiling affects business outcomes in offline or in-store contexts, relatively less is known about how smiling... View Details
    Keywords: Sharing Economy; Airbnb; Image Feature Extraction; Machine Learning; Facial Expressions; Prejudice and Bias; Nonverbal Communication; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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