Bids - Publications - Faculty & Research

2024
Working Paper

Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso

We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations

Citation

Read Now

Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 128, no. 4 (April 2025): 821–863. Bidding for the Bunker: Crown Wine Cellars’ Complex Negotiations By: Alex Chan and Rachel Lau March 2025 | Case |... View Details

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

of in-demand consumer products, such as shoes, handbags, and watches, in which consumers bid on items to “win” them. In early 2019, celebrity jewelry designer Ben Baller—a popular figure in the hip-hop community—staged an IPO for a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

enter new markets, bidding unprecedented sums to purchase competitors and buying up pricey technology. The spending spree sunk the company deep into debt, according to the research. When the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

As we bid farewell to another incredible year, it's time to reflect on the moments that resonated most with our readers. Let's revisit this year's highlights of the MBA Voices Blog! FROM HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL TO SPOTIFY: FOUR LESSONS IN... View Details

09 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology

Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

"Washington" telling them what they can and cannot do with their property. Both sides battle for increased or decreased legislation while ignoring possibilities for wiser regulation through joint problem solving. When a sports team threatens to move to a new... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Unilever Sustainable Living Plan with well-defined metrics the following year. Polman’s efforts in his first eight years returned 214 percent to Unilever shareholders. Nevertheless, Kraft Heinz, owned by Brazilian private equity firm 3G, made a hostile View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March–April 2023
Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis

Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details

Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing

09 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

office Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economy Wired to be Inspired Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of purpose Bidding Up 2022 Alumni... View Details

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

In most illiberal regimes, capitalists are described as “cronies” or “co-opted” by political elites, meaning they do the bidding of the political elites. But these characterizations do not account for how state–business relations change... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Bridges made a shift in their internship structure, assigning an HBS intern to an Investment Associate role reporting directly to Sullivan. “(She) ended up getting involved in coordinating a bid for a new project and led some business... View Details

16 Feb 2023
HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details