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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
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Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

  • October 2022
  • Case

Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability (A)

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Dava Newman, Rebecca Browder and Angela Acocella
Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity its supporters anticipated when opening its hangar doors in 2011. Despite $1 million in annual rent from Virgin Galactic, British... View Details
Keywords: Funding Sources; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Sector; Business and Government Relations; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Aerospace Industry; New Mexico
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  • 04 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

outsourcing marketing, at least beyond advertising, seems relatively new. Can you discuss this concept and the potential benefits to businesses? Gail J. McGovern: The outsourcing of marketing activities is catching on; in fact, in a... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Market Participation; Attitudes
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    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

    • September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
    • Case

    Hearthside Homes

    By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
    Investigates the "controllability problem" inherent in bonus systems. Ideally, an incentive system accurately measures performance in areas that the individual can control. But most measures are either too broad, including factors outside the influence of the employee,... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Housing; Performance Evaluation; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Real Estate Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

    By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Daniel Ramos-Menchelli, Jorge Tamayo and Audrey Tiew
    Neighborhoods are strong determinants of both economic opportunity and criminal activity. Does improving connectedness between segregated and unequal parts of a city predominantly import opportunity or export crime? We use a spatial general equilibrium framework to... View Details
    Keywords: Urban Transit Infrastructure; Crime; Spatial Equilibrium; Urban Development; Transportation Networks; Crime and Corruption; Transportation Industry; Medellín; Colombia; South America
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    • March 2021
    • Article

    Opting-in to Prosocial Incentives

    By: Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
    The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Field Experiments; Recycling; Prosocial Motivation; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    • 22 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 22

    based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more effective and more productive health care sector. The paper concludes with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2014
    • Article

    Improving Value with TDABC

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) combined with outcomes measurement for healthcare organizations. Topics covered include improving resource efficiency, optimizing care over the complete care cycle, and planning and... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • 21 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

    susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how the customer View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Reza R. Satchu

      Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions

      By: Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes and Yuval Millo
      This paper, based on a five-year longitudinal study at two UK-based banks, documents and analyzes the practices used by risk managers as they aim to gather and establish influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1)... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
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      • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
      • Case

      Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

      By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
      In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
      Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
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      • 13 Nov 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: November 13

      ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our approach is View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • March 2016
      • Article

      Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

      By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
      We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details
      Keywords: Highways; Roads; India; Development; Manufacturing; Density; Rent; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; India
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      • October 2004 (Revised January 2006)
      • Tutorial

      Introduction to Responsibility Accounting Systems

      By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan, Jacob Cohen and Michele Jurgens
      Responsibility accounting systems generate financial and related nonfinancial information about the actual and planned activities of a company's responsibility centers--organizational units headed by managers responsible for a unit's performance. The principal... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cost Accounting; Governance Controls; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning
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      • June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
      • Case

      I Paid a Bribe (Dot) Com

      By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani
      Anti-corruption web platform "ipaidabribe.com" leverages the transparency and anonymity of the Internet to encourage private citizens in India who have been the victims of corruption to self-report details of bribes paid, including the bribe amount, the name of the... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Service Industry; India
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      • July 2007 (Revised July 2008)
      • Case

      The Beijing Dream

      By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang
      The purchase of a single-family home is generally the major investment for most young couples in China. Shows in detail the process that a young couple goes through in late April 2007 to find, finance, and close on an apartment in Beijing within what they believe to be... View Details
      Keywords: Property; Investment; Cost; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Activity Based Costing and Management; Internet and the Web; Management Practices and Processes; Real Estate Industry; Beijing; United States
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