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- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Is It Safe for CEOs to Voice Strong Political Opinions?
- 2021
- Working Paper
Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program
By: Sergey Chernenko and David S. Scharfstein
Using a large sample of Florida restaurants, we document significant racial disparities in borrowing through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and investigate the causes of these disparities. Black-owned restaurants are 25% less likely to receive PPP loans....
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Keywords:
Discrimination;
Paycheck Protection Program;
Economic Injury Disaster Loans;
Bank Lending;
Nonbank Lending;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Prejudice and Bias;
Race
Chernenko, Sergey, and David S. Scharfstein. "Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program." SSRN Working Paper Series, August 2021. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29748, February 2022.)
- Web
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship
A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow...
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Keywords:
Customers;
Commercialization;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention
Shah, Sonali, and Mary Tripsas. "When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-078, March 2012.
- June 2018
- Article
Video Content Marketing: The Making of Clips
By: Xuan Liu, Savannah Wei Shi, Thales S. Teixeira and Michel Wedel
Consumers have an increasingly wide variety of options available to entertain themselves. This poses a challenge for content aggregators who want to effectively promote their video content online through original trailers of movies, sitcoms, and video games. Marketers...
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Keywords:
Film Entertainment;
Marketing;
Digital Marketing;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Improvement
Liu, Xuan, Savannah Wei Shi, Thales S. Teixeira, and Michel Wedel. "Video Content Marketing: The Making of Clips." Journal of Marketing 82, no. 4 (July 2018): 86–101.
- September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Doing Business in Turkey
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Robin J. Ely, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Emilie Billaud and Cigdem Çelik
In a rather flat international business environment characterized by shrinking markets and economic turmoil, Turkey promoted itself as one of the safe havens for investments. Led by the strong domestic demand of a young population, the country had tripled its GDP...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- News
Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
article originally appeared in the HBS Alumni Bulletin. You Might Also Like: Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up View Details
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Veterans - MBA
Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career Fellowship FOR VETERANS Yellow Ribbon Program HBS will contribute $20,000 per year to...
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- 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...
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- June 2004 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Scientific-Atlantia (S-A), a leading manufacturer of cable TV equipment, is confronting strategic challenges in mid-2004. For decades, cable operators have faced high switching costs that have locked them into exclusive supply relationships with either S-A or its...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Industry Structures;
Television Entertainment;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Scientific-Atlanta, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 804-191, June 2004. (Revised June 2006.)
- April 2009 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer information across units and its use in the creative process are key initiatives analyzed in the case. CEO Robert...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Brands and Branding;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Elena Corsi, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework." Harvard Business School Case 109-079, April 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
from fossil fuels to new energy technologies was fraught with challenges, yet filled with opportunity. Developed countries were pushing for a direct transition to new technologies by phasing out oil and gas, while developing nations...
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- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
Servant leadership is experienced so rarely because of trends in the leadership environment, the scarcity of human qualities required, demands that the practice places on the practitioner, and the very...
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by Jim Heskett
- April 17, 2021
- Article
Reimagining India's Health System: A Lancet Citizens' Commission
By: Vikram Patel, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gagandeep Kang, Pamela Das and Tarun Khanna
This commentary announces the launch of the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System. The Commission is an ambitious, cross-sectoral effort to develop a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in India in the next decade....
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Patel, Vikram, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gagandeep Kang, Pamela Das, and Tarun Khanna. "Reimagining India's Health System: A Lancet Citizens' Commission." Lancet 397, no. 10283 (April 17, 2021). (Comment.)
- August 2013 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Amazon in 2024
By: Sunil Gupta and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Amazon launched its website in July 1995 to sell books online and by 2020 it has grown to become a digital giant with over $280 billion in annual sales. A large part of its growth came from expanding into a variety of businesses that some see as unrelated. Has it...
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Keywords:
Platforms;
Complements;
Showrooming;
Ecosystem;
Growth Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Network Effects;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Retail Industry;
Publishing Industry
Gupta, Sunil, and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Amazon in 2024." Harvard Business School Case 514-025, August 2013. (Revised July 2024.)
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Theory O change, Scott Paper operated in a highly competitive, cyclical, capital-intensive global industry. Like Champion International, it operated in two different segments of the paper industry and had several businesses in markets...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 26 Mar 2024
- HBS Seminar
Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Web
Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
issued to investors in Europe or Asia. Additionally, Lehman Brothers had been a major issuer of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper, and its collapse caused a credit freeze of this vital source of lending throughout the world....
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- winter 2003
- Article
Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes
We introduce the idea of a massively categorical variable, a variable such as zip code that takes on too many values to be treated in the standard manner, and show how to use it directly as explanatory variables in an econometric model. In an application of this...
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Steenburgh, Thomas J., Andrew Ainslie, and Peder Hans Engebretson. "Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes." Marketing Science 22, no. 1 (winter 2003): 40–57.