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  • Article

Targeting Weather Insurance Markets

By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 22 Mar 2022
  • News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

as well as door prizes and a surprise video greeting from HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “We’ve been here since 1947, which is pretty amazing,” says the club’s president, Megan Stidman (MBA 1999). “It was a lot of fun to celebrate being here... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • November–December 2020
  • Article

Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case

By: Robin Ely and David A. Thomas
Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change; Trust
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  • 13 Jan 2011
  • News

Microsoft's Ambivalence About Kinect Hackers

  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United Automobile Workers of America union and the Committee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home

By: Robert S. Huckman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Antonio Moreno, Bradley Staats and Sarah Mehta
This case explores retailer Best Buy’s decision to enter health care. Best Buy Health aims to enable care at home across three prongs: consumer health, active aging, and virtual care. A key pillar of Best Buy Health's strategy is leveraging the Geek Squad—the company's... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Minnesota
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  • 25 Jun 2020
  • News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, HBS’s 15 global centers and offices have been instrumental in supporting faculty members’ research into the business impact of the pandemic... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

accounting: fast-paced, fully immersive, and case-based. Why did you decide to get involved with the LGBT Student Association?  As a member of the black and LGBT community, I know the importance of belonging... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS

choose between staying in the military and accepting my spot at Harvard Business School. To provide some context, I had wanted to “go to Harvard” ever since I was 5 or 6 years old. I didn’t have the means or View Details
  • 16 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

with my brother towards our goal of making sure this isn’t just a moment for racial justice, it’s a movement,” said Kevin. The Future of ARF In addition to the support of a strong network, Kenneth View Details
  • February 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Brazil: Leading the BRICs?

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Aldo Musacchio
Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, had announced plans to sustain GDP growth above 5% annually and continue the country's leadership role among emerging economies. Between 2003 and 2010, Brazil benefited from strong economic growth and stable policies under the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Intellectual Property; Infrastructure; Economic Growth; Trade; International Relations; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Strategy; Brazil; Russia; India; China; United States
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  • 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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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

technical, and skilled employees to support growing international business. For Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian companies, cooperation with... View Details
Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Corporate Accountability Field of Study: Leave blank Grade: Complete Activities and Societies: Leave blank For the program description on LinkedIn, please use the following:... View Details
  • November 2024 (Revised July 2025)
  • Case

Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?

By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer
By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with €230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds,... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Distribution; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Profit; Trade; Digital Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Advertising; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Business and Community Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Business Model; Health Pandemics; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Poland
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  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

lack “vision” compared to men. Meanwhile, the secretaries, as they were then called, were a support system, and I saw that those support functions were self-perpetuating. View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • Web

European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

with certain marketing communications or processing certain special categories of personal data). We may apply more than one legal basis to the processing activities described under the Purposes of Processing View Details
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

be the availability of superior resources to support innovative activities in larger organizations? Whatever happened to the focus on intrapreneurship (within large organizations) that fascinated us in the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett