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- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
Corporate Strategy Development group and that was really life changing for me. I hadn't realized that corporate strategy at a place like Nike existed,” Leahy says. Nike was also where Leahy View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
even investors. At a national level, it can damage international relations. Here’s a sample of some indicators of differences between pride and arrogance: Pride We work for the customer We worry about what we can View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach
- April 2007 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Bankinter: Growing Through Small and Medium Enterprises
Surveys the overall sequence of processes needed for the success of a strategy based on customer analytics. In particular, it charts the formulation and implementation of this strategy by a Spanish bank that decided to expand into the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Data and Data Sets; Knowledge Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Segmentation; Banking Industry; Spain
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Joshua Bellin. "Bankinter: Growing Through Small and Medium Enterprises." Harvard Business School Case 107-075, April 2007. (Revised November 2007.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality
By: Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement
Dell'Acqua, Fabrizio, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-013, September 2023.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana
By: Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry
We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income
Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers
affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed,... View Details
Karlan, Dean, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth, and Christopher Udry. "Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-010, July 2022. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.)
- 17 Apr 2010
- Other Presentation
New Jersey Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance
Prepared for Governor Chris Christie. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "New Jersey Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance." Meeting with the Governor of New Jersey, NJ, April 17, 2010.
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
Gary (MBA 1963) and Terie Roubos
been reading the materials that Harvard sends, but this was the first time I became aware we could have an annuity attached to it,” says Gary. “Once I learned that was possible, I thought that it was a perfect opportunity for us.” (June... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets addresses contexts that are different from developed markets. These regions had long eras of foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Helping family businesses succeed and thrive
For more than 25 years, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his family foundation have been enabling others learn how to manage successful family-run businesses. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
not actual practices. This introduction and conclusion from a recent working paper, "Product and Labor Markets Globalization and Convergence of Corporate Governance:... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
educated and be put in a position to advance my family’s socioeconomic status. Pursuing post-secondary education proved to be a rewarding challenge. This educational journey has allowed me to develop a high... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Making connections at Harvard and beyond
In his role as executive director of External Relations at HBS, Ralph James (MBA 1982) takes the work of developing connections to a whole new level. While embracing the work of building lasting relationships between the School View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration
HBS and Stanford University are teaming up to explore online executive management education. The new collaboration between these pioneers in electronic learning is designed to create a distribution platform... View Details
- March 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms and Katherine Miller
Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business History; Race; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Saint Louis
Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business School Case 807-145, March 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
- February 2021
- Case
Drizly: Managing Supply and Demand through Disruption
By: Kris Ferreira
It was April 6th, 2020, and the management team at Drizly—an online alcohol marketplace where consumers could browse and purchase alcohol from local liquor retail stores via Drizly’s app for immediate home delivery—were thrilled to see record-breaking sales from the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Growth and Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Goals and Objectives; Supply Chain Management
Ferreira, Kris. "Drizly: Managing Supply and Demand through Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 621-097, February 2021.
Making Sense of Past and Present
studies in international relations, my father “strongly recommended” that I study business or engineering instead. According to him, it was more pragmatic and would ensure that I got a job. I rediscovered the immense joy of View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
point higher fee relative to the notional invested for selling the dominated bond on average. I develop and estimate a broker intermediated search model that rationalizes this behavior View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand
Can generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) transform the role of the CEO? This study investigates
whether Gen-AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees display aversion to Gen-AI
communication. We present a framework of Gen-AI aversion that distinguishes... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Bart S. Vanneste, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand. "The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-008, August 2024. (Revised May 2025.)