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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
of Inspire Brands, which owns Buffalo Wild Wings, Arby’s, Jimmy John’s and Sonic Drive-In, explained that with 11,000 restaurants in its portfolio, Inspire is seeing very different impacts across the brands driven primarily by their... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature
By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
Our understanding of the firm’s role in society has evolved greatly over the past 70 years, with more recent years seeing a sharp rise in interest for how firms can contribute more than profits to society – that is, have a purpose beyond profits. Businesses engaged in... View Details
Adelson, Caroline, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price, and Marco Iansiti. "Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-063, April 2023.
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future
between the funds at my disposal and the total amount I needed to attend my dream school. I wanted to know how others bridged this gap. I began to reach out to HBS alumni who I knew to ask how they financed their education. I asked tough questions about whether they... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Anticorruption Efforts" (with Paul Healy, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12–077, 2012). George Serafeim : Runner-up for the 2013 Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the paper with Mozaffar Khan and Leonid Kogan, "Mutual Fund Trading... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
powerful impact on practice. But the benefits have not come without costs." Montgomery maintains that strategy has been narrowed to a competitive game plan, separate from a firm's larger sense of purpose. This has led to the eclipse of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
for the research. Farronato hopes to eventually study the impact of searching solely with images. Embedded inside a retailer’s new rollout In 2021, the authors collaborated with one of the largest e-commerce platforms in China as it... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
have little strategic impact.10 Think, in many selling situations, about the design of PowerPoint presentations: some folks are much better than others in doing this, but how much impact do the slides have versus other sales tasks? Other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
paying a stream of medical bills. My aversion to health care growing up, juxtaposed by the cost-free, quality care I received later in life as a US citizen, is why I want to work towards improving the health care system. I studied Biology in undergrad and developed a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
overpriced drugs (moral condition) or drove patients into debt by increasing prices (immoral condition). Only 19 percent of participants said Ariana’s life was meaningful when she drove patients into debt by increasing prices. By... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
2006. Examines the possible impact that public litigation will have on the two firms. The impact of the litigation will be different for each firm because they are at dissimilar development stages and plan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
bus to restock. Their orders are relatively small, so they can’t negotiate on prices or credit terms,” adds Shruti, who watched her uncle’s kirana go out of business years ago due to issues with pricing and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
impact of television both in helping define beauty and in developing the industry? A: During the late 1940s, television spread rapidly across the United States, and soon afterwards elsewhere. Television offered remarkable new... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
a traditional gas-fired system due to lower utility bills and greater energy efficiency. Heat pumps can also insulate from the effects of energy price spikes. Next, making the switch will enable homeowners to take control of their climate... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
about registration or help to register at home. While both types of visits increased registration, the home registration visits had a higher impact than the information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the... View Details