Publications

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

WallStreetBets: Democratizing Retail Investing

By: Joseph Pacelli and Alexis Lefort

In summer 2024, Jaime Rogozinski anticipated the launch of a day-trading eSports event, a vision he had nurtured for years. Rogozinski, the founder of the influential subreddit WallStreetBets (WSB), created the forum in 2012 as a space for retail traders to explore... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Financial Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; United States

24 Nov 2014
News

Filling the 'Middle-Skills' Gap

03 Apr 2022
News

I Quit? The Real Story Behind the ‘Great Resignation’

April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim

In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Handbook for Banking and Governance, edited by James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of acquisition of private firms View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 9, 2024
Article

Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

By: Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, Amit Goldenberg, Eric Shuman and et al.

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Policy; Knowledge Sharing; Values and Beliefs

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October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)

By: Joseph Pacelli and Sarah Mehta

This case covers the events leading up to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Using GameStop as an illustrative example, the case explores the rise in retail trading, increased financial information sharing on social media, and the gamification of investing enabled by... View Details

Keywords: Value; Stocks; Financial Markets; Social Media; Investment; Applications and Software; Financial Services Industry; United States

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

CURRENT READING Inside: A Public and Private Life, by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. A member of McKinsey for almost half a century, Ron Daniel led the management consultancy from 1976 to 1988. While maintaining... View Details

September 2006
Supplement

Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (B)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Brainard, Bennis and Farrel is a short case designed to explore the challenge of establishing appropriate compensation from a general management/CEO perspective. Brainard (B) is a one-page handout that is designed to show how an already difficult problem is made more... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Relationships; Strategy

September 1972 (Revised April 1984)
Case

Crown Cork & Seal and the Metal Container Industry

By: Joseph L. Bower

Discusses the technical, economic, and packaging trends in the metal container industry, and the impact of these trends on major companies within the industry. Shows the response of Crown Cork & Seal Co. to these trends. Based on Crown Cork & Seal Co. and Note on the... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Supply and Industry; Economics; Trends; Manufacturing Industry

May 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Background Note

Dirty Hands

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

A one-paragraph excerpt from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. Describes in the words of one character, the ethical problem of "dirty hands": the problem that doing the morally superior thing in some circumstances inevitably involves doing some things that are morally wrong.... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Management; Problems and Challenges; Personal Characteristics; Value

Find at Harvard

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

community.” HARVARD INNOVATION LABS: WHERE PASSION AND PURPOSE MEET The Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem has been called a place of “structured serendipity” where innovation is fueled by connection and collaboration. The labs enable... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

$1,850 Certificate Negotiation Mastery Professor Michael Wheeler Master negotiation techniques to secure maximum value for yourself and your organization. 8 weeks, 4-5 hrs/week Pay by July 17 $1,850 Certificate Management Essentials... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ascarza : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Eva Ascarza : Selected as an INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Institutions for "The Limits of Insurance Demand and the Growing Protection Gap" with Pari Sastry, Tess Scharlemann, and Ana-Maria Tenekedijieva. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize for the best paper published View Details

27 Jun 2012
News

Larry Page's Lost Voice Provokes Widespread Worry

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (G): The Final Votes

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

In the fall of 2009, the House and Senate each voted to pass health reform bills. These bills then had to be combined into the Affordable Care Act and the ACA had to be passed by both houses. Reconciliation had to be used because of Republican Scott Brown's Senate... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States