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  • 12 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam & Luis M. Viceira
  • December 2020
  • Article

Why Connect? Moral Consequences of Networking with a Promotion or Prevention Focus

By: F. Gino, T. Casciaro and M. Kouchaki
Networks are a key source of social capital for achieving goals in professional and personal settings. Yet, despite the clear benefits of having an extensive network, individuals often shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Networking; Impurity; Morality; Motivation; Regulatory Focus; Networks; Attitudes; Moral Sensibility
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  • December 2018
  • Case

The Nature Conservancy in 2018

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a U.S.-based environmental NGO with $7 billion in assets and a presence in 72 countries in 2018. TNC originated in 1951 as a land trust, acquiring land in order to conserve it. Over the last 20 years, it developed a pragmatic... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
  • Supplement

Vanguard Retail Operations (B)

By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or... View Details
Keywords: Pooling; Generalist Model; Specialist Model; Service Operations; Management; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

(iStockphoto/Rawpixel) The subject of power has a certain intoxicating aura about it. Maybe that’s why I studied and wrote about interorganizational power in channels of distribution while teaching courses in marketing too long ago. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers have the courage, but does the CEO have the vision and fortitude to stand before the board and defend the opportunity to explore and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Jan 2018
  • HBS Seminar

John Helveston, Boston University

  • Web

Events - Business & Environment

making a positive impact on our planet? Connect with alumni who have forged successful careers in the field of climate and sustainability! Explore a variety of roles and... View Details
  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Clubs provide some of the best ways for students to explore new careers or to build their skillsets. Career clubs like Aerospace and Aviation (A&A) Club host regular networking events for club members... View Details
  • Web

Partners - Case Method Project

U.S. History, History of 1968, Exploring Global Antiquity 600 BCE-600 CE, Consolidating Powers and Expanding Connections 600 CE-1400 CE MA 68 of 159 Sarah Hogoboom Tabor Academy Marion, MA MA 69 of 159 Wendy... View Details

    Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

    The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet... View Details
    • Web

    Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    Teaching Quantitative Material Strategies and Tactics for Sensitive Topics Featured Video In this video Professor Jan Rivkin explores General Shoe Company, the first Harvard Business School case study, how... View Details
    • March 2017 (Revised May 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    The Strategy Execution Series

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    This is the teaching note for the 15-module Strategy Execution series. New management tools and techniques are needed to implement strategy in the 21st century. Rapid innovation, entrepreneurial competitors, and increasingly demanding customers have radically altered... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Performance Measurement; Profit Planning; Organization Design; Profitable Growth; Management Attention; Organizational Conflict; Job Design; Business Strategy; Management Systems; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Organizational Design; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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    • 15 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

    versions, Exley and Judd Kessler, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, took a new approach to exploring reasons people avoid information. Separating excuses from other motives... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Messer Griesheim (A)

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
    In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoechst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family ownership... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Chemical Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe
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    (Mis)perceptions of Inequality

    By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
    Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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      Contested Meanings of Freedom

      In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not pre-scribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
      • 22 Aug 2019
      • Blog Post

      Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

      a small town in Alaska - where wilderness survival and fishing were necessary parts of her childhood education.  I grew up in Alaska, where we spent much of my childhood outdoors. Our house was on a dirt road outside of town, View Details
      • 26 Apr 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

      Keywords: by Andrew A. King & Karim R. Lakhani

        The New Market Conundrum

        Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it's unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details