Publications

SSRN

20 Jun 2024

Take30 Impact Series: Diverse Alumni in Private Equity

Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn about how one alum is making an impact in their own way after HBS. We’ll touch on their experience as a student, and then “zoom” in on their career path and personal journey since graduating. On... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact

the social sector. “We are trying to scale our impact on the world, not just our organizational size,” he explains. Although a nonprofit, Bridgespan has close ties to Bain & Company, where Tierney served as worldwide managing director,... View Details

Video

Selena Cuffe answers: What impact have you had in the world?

2016
Working Paper

The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer Demand

By: Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman

To set inventory service levels, suppliers must understand how changes in inventory service level affect demand. We build on prior research, which uses analytical models and laboratory experiments to study the impact of a supplier's service level on demand from... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Consumer Behavior; Service Delivery; Performance Expectations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Service Industry

SSRN

July 2023
Article

Impacts of Electricity Quality Improvements: Experimental Evidence on Infrastructure Investments

By: Robyn C. Meeks, Arstan Omuraliev, Ruslan Isaev and Zhenxuan Wang

Hundreds of millions of households depend on electricity grid connections providing low quality and unreliable services. Understanding the impacts of and consumer response to electricity quality improvements is important for development and the environment. We... View Details

Keywords: Infrastructure; Energy; Quality; Kyrgyzstan

TeachingInterests

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

2015
Book

The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch

This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American countries, Argentina and Chile, over time. The chapters examine the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business Groups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Globalization; Growth and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Latin America; Argentina; Chile

Purchase

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

Research Summary

Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination

By: Janice H. Hammond

Roy D. Shapiro (with Janice H. Hammond and Marshall L. Fisher) is studying innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain so as to reduce or eliminate the redundant activities that tend... View Details

February 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Module Note

Creating Shared Value: Competitive Advantage through Social Impact

By: Mark Kramer

Purchase

2012
Chapter

The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business-to-Business Marketing

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Das Narayandas

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Marketing

November 2007
Article

Measuring Consumer and Competitive Impact with Elasticity Decompositions

Marketing investments are designed to change consumer behavior in ways that help goods compete in the marketplace. Previous research has focused on using elasticity decompositions to measure how these investments affect either consumer decision making or competing... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Competitive Advantage

June 1989 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Sealed Air Corp.: Marketing Impacts of Eliminating CFCs

By: John A. Quelch

Other Unpublished Work

Notes on the Impact of Wealth in Bargaining

By: Lucy White, Chen-Ying Huang and Alan Morrison

Keywords: Negotiation; Wealth