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  • 09 Feb 2012
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

viewer. New experimental research by Thales S. Teixeira looks at how advertisers can effectively capture and keep viewers' attention by evoking certain emotional responses.Key concepts include: In a recent experiment, participants watched... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

it is critical to find effective ways to support far-reaching change in both products and processes across our entire economy. My current research focuses on large organizations that are attempting to take advantage of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Research Summary

Corporate transparency and information disclosure strategies

By: Michael W. Toffel
This research focuses on transparency and information disclosure strategies, a topic of growing importance in environmental sustainability, corporate strategy, stakeholder relations, and public policy.  My prior research in this area explored why... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environment; Environmental Performance; Regulation; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; United States
  • Web

Business & Environment

Research Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna SEPTEMBER 2025 | Journal of... View Details

    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - Or Keep You Well

    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too... View Details

    • October 2020
    • Article

    Collusion in Markets with Syndication

    By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
    Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory
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    • 08 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

    world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ performance to such an extent that it is a rational decision to take... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

    Rams would also seem to suggest wisdom in the strategy. While taking the league by storm in his first two seasons, McVay has shown some of the qualities we outlined in our previous piece, What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant, that indicate a... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 15 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 15, 2016

    neglect the unit managers’ knowledge about which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized hiring to centralized hiring at our research... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2022
    • Book

    Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

    By: George Serafeim
    The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

    We not only... View Details
    Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

    A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
    • 16 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Center Focuses on Europe

    as well. Q: What business trends are you noticing? Dessain: Currently European companies are focusing a lot of effort on sustainable development and other environmental concerns. ERC is supporting Professor Estelle Cantillon in strategy... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • Web

    Lifelong Learning - Alumni

    Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration); By: Jennifer Gillespie 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI The rise of chatbots sparks wide-ranging faculty research at HBS Re: Ayelet... View Details
    • 22 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Juliet Schor, Boston College

    • 15 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 15, 2016

    Path and having been awarded a major World Bank grant, several challenges nonetheless remain including regional war and turmoil, sustainable funding, tensions over the Path's activities in Israel, and possible next steps for the... View Details
    • 2001
    • Chapter

    Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
    U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
    Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications for understanding managerial incentives and the internal processes that lead to sustained advantage. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    Benchstrength Berkeley Research Group LLC Berkshire Partners BHP Biogen BJ's Wholesale Club Blackhorn Ventures BlackRock Blackstone Blank Street Blitzy AI Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership... View Details