Instrumentality - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 1994 (Revised November 2002)
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Pankaj Ghemawat

Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Price; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology

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30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how advertisers can leverage emotion and attention to engage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

were often the instruments used by governments to screen or monitor FDI flows. The world-wide controls over capital movements were related to balance of payments concerns and the system of fixed exchange rates established at Bretton... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Our Curriculum - Business History

both in entrepreneurship and general management. Course syllabus Creating the Modern Financial System Taught by David Moss This second-year elective offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial... View Details

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

for how these changes would be achieved. The Balanced Scorecard played an instrumental role in this process. While the pieces of the strategy existed, they were fragmented; some observers referred to it as "strategy du jour."... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort

In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States

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13 Sep 2013
HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

13 Sep 2013
HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

during COVID. She also led the team’s health equity strategy and founded its first DEI program, in partnership with senior hospital leadership. She said, “the Goldsmith Fellowship will be instrumental in helping me achieve my goal of... View Details

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Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

28 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Paula Stephan, Georgia State Univ and NBER

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

01 Jun 2024
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From Chalkboards to Chatbots

ways to leverage GenAI tools to enhance teaching and learning. Gifts to the HBS Fund are instrumental in enabling this important work, supporting the School’s commitment to shaping the future of business—and business education—in a... View Details

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Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories

Nehls West Area Sales Director Chevron Energy Solutions What will I learn that I can apply right away? Participants find that they master new ways of thinking that they can put into action immediately, which can help them take a big step forward in their careers. "The... View Details

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Aldrich Hall | About

Jr. was a noted philanthropist who believed that wealth should be “an instrumentality of constructive social living.” In that spirit, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, funded the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg,... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

the instruments ready and wrote up new protocol sheets for every group. "[W]e talked about how the communication would be important, and everyone was involved in [this] conversation, nurses, surgeons, everyone." By contrast, at... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

starts with using yourself as an instrument to get things done. And because you're the instrument, you've got to know that instrument very well and use it appropriately, so that your imprint matches your... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
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Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King

By: Tom Nicholas and Matthew G. Preble

Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy... View Details