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11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Centers By: Kaplan, Robert S., Jordan A. Garcia, Bipin Mistry, Stephen Hardy, Mary Shannon Fracchia, Cheryl Hersh, Carissa Wentland, Joseph Vadakekalam, and Christopher J.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Ford Foundation (A) (220026) by Shawn Cole , Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski FEBRUARY 2020 (REVISED JANUARY 2022) Darren Walker and his staff have been preparing for... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Banking By: Nicola Gennaioli & Robert W. Vishny JUN 2011 The rise and extent of shadow banking – the origination and acquisition of loans by financial intermediaries, their assembly into diversified pools,... View Details

October 2016
Case

U.S. Presidential Campaign 2016: Marketing Communication Strategy

By: Robert J. Dolan

On October 18, 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump began the last three weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign by preparing for the next day's third and final presidential debate. Tuesday, November 8 was Election Day, but in... View Details

Keywords: Election Outcomes; Voting Behavior; Voting; Marketing Communications; Political Elections; United States

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

choose your path For many HBS MBA candidates, entrepreneurship rivals general management, consulting, and financial services as a meaningful career path. But by definition, considering entrepreneurship means pursuing something new, and... View Details

April 1985 (Revised September 1993)
Background Note

Hattori-Seiko and the World Watch Industry in 1980

By: Michael E. Porter and Edward J. Hoff

Focuses on the industry's development and evolution in three principal watch producing countries: Switzerland, the United States, and Japan. Based in part on two earlier cases by F.T. Knickerbocker and H.E.R. Uyterhoeven. View Details

Keywords: Industry Growth; Consumer Products Industry; Japan; Switzerland; United States

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

behave ethically and actual self-interested behavior. This relationship was mediated by the more extensive mental simulation that occurred with eyes closed rather than open, which, in turn, intensified emotional reactions to the ethical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2014
Book

The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality.

By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus

The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Society

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, Robert Bruner (MBA 1974/DBA 1982) and Sean Carr make the case that looking into financial crises of the past can help clarify current conditions—and inform one’s outlook on the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1987 (Revised April 1987)
Case

Tiberg Co.

By: Michael Beer and Daniel J. Isenberg

Describes the efforts of a vice president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard. View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Power and Influence

November 2010
Case

Gilt Groupe

By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Tamara Obradov

The case explores decisions faced by Gilt Groupe co-founders in 2009 regarding how rapidly to grow, which growth strategies to pursue and how much capital to raise. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled with the classic Physical Optics View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies . 2024 Caroline M. Elkins : Awarded the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History... View Details

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October 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Integrated Reporting at Aegon

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Sydney Ribot and Michael Krzus

In 2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting—a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering medium- to long-term issues, stakeholder opinions, and the relationship between material financial and nonfinancial... View Details