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    The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

    Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic... View Details

    • April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
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    Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

    By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
    The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
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    Stanton, Christopher, Richard Saouma, and Olivia Hull. "Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects." Harvard Business School Case 819-072, April 2019. (Revised January 2025.)
    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics

    Keywords: by Efraim Benmelech, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Joshua Krieger; Pharmaceutical
    • October 2007
    • Journal Article

    Psychosocial Development and Leader Performance of Military Officer Cadets

    By: Scott Snook and Paul T. Bartone
    Efforts to educate and develop future military officers aim to produce highly competent, ethical and effective leaders to serve the nation. But while there is general agreement about desired outcomes, the underlying developmental processes associated with these... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Leadership Development; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Social Psychology
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    Snook, Scott, and Paul T. Bartone. "Psychosocial Development and Leader Performance of Military Officer Cadets." Leadership Quarterly 18, no. 5 (October 2007): 490–504.
    • 2014
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Marketing Reading: Customer Management

    By: Sunil Gupta
    This Reading on customer management sheds light on how companies should evaluate and manage their customers in order to grow profitably. Customer management allows marketing managers to inform investment decisions by drilling down into each customer's profitability or... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Profitability Analysis; Customer Retention; Firm Value; Organizational Structure
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    Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Customer Management." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8162, 2014.
    • 2018
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    Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

    By: Daniel P. Gross
    Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Tournaments; Radical Vs. Incremental Innovation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Creativity; Innovation and Invention
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    Gross, Daniel P. "Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-109, March 2016. (Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25057, September 2018)
    • January 2004
    • Background Note

    Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy

    By: John T. Gourville
    Looks at the psychological biases developers bring to the new product development process. Identifies three reasons why developers may do a poor job of identifying the demand for an innovative, new concept or product: (1) the self-selection bias, (2) differing initial... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Management; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias
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    Gourville, John T. "Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy." Harvard Business School Background Note 504-068, January 2004.
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    Multi-Echelon Inventory Management Under Short-Term Take-or-Pay Contracts

    By: Joel Goh and Evan L. Porteus
    We extend the Clark–Scarf serial multi-echelon inventory model to include procuring production inputs under short-term take-or-pay contracts at one or more stages. In each period, each such stage has the option to order/process at two different cost rates; the cheaper... View Details
    Keywords: Inventory Management; Multi-echelon Inventory Theory; Karush Lemma; Clark-Scarf Model; Convex Ordering Cost; Advance Commitments; Supply Chain
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    Goh, Joel, and Evan L. Porteus. "Multi-Echelon Inventory Management Under Short-Term Take-or-Pay Contracts." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 8 (August 2016): 1415–1429. (Finalist for 2014 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Award.)
    • October 2015 (Revised May 2016)
    • Background Note

    Leading and Managing Change (ABRIDGED)

    By: Ryan Raffaelli
    Managing change is consistently ranked as one of the most critical and difficult tasks that leaders face. This note outlines the key choices that leaders must make when engineering change. It is organized into four sections, offering guidance on how to 1) diagnose the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management
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    Raffaelli, Ryan. "Leading and Managing Change (ABRIDGED)." Harvard Business School Background Note 416-021, October 2015. (Revised May 2016.)
    • 07 Mar 2022
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    Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

    impact on both employees and companies, new research shows. In fact, managers who elevate others like Bradway did are more likely to hold on to valued employees, according to a study by Yuan Zou, assistant professor of business... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • December 2014
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    The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Organizational Structure
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    Bloom, Nicholas, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization." Management Science 60, no. 12 (December 2014): 2859–2885.
    • 1998
    • Chapter

    Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes
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    Herzlinger, Regina E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors." In Fachzeitschrift fur Nonprofit Management, edited by Michael Muller and Franziska Hiltpold. Fribourg: Verbandsmanagement Institut, 1998.
    • 01 Jun 2005
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    Marked Managers

    biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
    • March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
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    Sustainable Development & Socially Responsible Investing: ABB in 2000

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Several investment firms and mutual funds position themselves as providers or facilitators of opportunities for socially responsible investment. This case addresses the impact of these firms on publicly traded companies. Focuses on managers at ABB, a large... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Capital Markets; Management Teams; Business and Community Relations; Trade; Electronics Industry; Switzerland
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    Reinhardt, Forest L. "Sustainable Development & Socially Responsible Investing: ABB in 2000." Harvard Business School Case 701-082, March 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
    • October 2001 (Revised March 2006)
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    Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
    On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Negotiation; Ethics; Social Issues; Economic Sectors; Investment; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Mining Industry; Chad; Cameroon
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    Esty, Benjamin C., and Carrie Ferman. "Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 202-010, October 2001. (Revised March 2006.)
    • June 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners

    By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
    Private equity firm XAF Partners had grown steadily over the last decade, establishing offices across Asia. At the end of their day-long partners' retreat, several firm partners discuss the challenges they face as "producing managers." These include collaboration and... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Time Management; Development; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Financial Services Industry; China
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    Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Robin Abrahams. "Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners ." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 414-060, June 2014.
    • 02 Aug 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

    innovation is less likely to occur." Brian Donahue warns that "an assessment of internal controls by management at a point in time is not effective because the organization—and thus internal... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 1994
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    Focused Human Resources Management: Key to Logistics Effectiveness

    By: R. D. Shapiro and J. Byrnes
    Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Logistics; Performance Effectiveness
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    Shapiro, R. D., and J. Byrnes. "Focused Human Resources Management: Key to Logistics Effectiveness." In The Logistics Handbook, edited by J.F. Robeson and W. C. Copacino. New York: Free Press, 1994.
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

    We investigate the role played by institutional development in the prevalence and value of family firms, while controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China provides a good research lab since it combines great heterogeneity in institutional development... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Data and Data Sets; Law; Management; Organizational Culture; Research; Value; China
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    Amit, Raphael, Yuan Ding, Belen Villalonga, and Hua Zhang. "The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-103, May 2010.
    • 2008
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    Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
    The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    Edmondson, Amy C., and Ingrid M. Nembhard. "Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-046, January 2008.
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