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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

By: Peter Tufano
We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness
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  • April 2005 (Revised April 2005)
  • Background Note

Corporate Strategies in Media and Entertainment Businesses

By: Bharat N. Anand
In recent years, many debates in corporate strategy have centered around information goods markets, and the media and entertainment sector in particular. Vertical integration is the norm in many parts of the media sector, despite conventional wisdom that it offers no... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
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  • May 2010
  • Article

Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels

By: Anita Elberse
Fueled by digital distribution, unbundling is prevalent in many information industries. What is the effect of this unbundling on sales? And what bundle characteristics drive this effect? I empirically examine these questions in the context of the music industry, using... View Details
Keywords: Unbundling; Bundling; Digital Distribution; System-of-equations Modeling; Sales; Distribution Channels; Framework; Mathematical Methods; Revenue; Reputation; Internet and the Web; System; E-commerce; Information Industry; Information Industry
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  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Educating Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan HBS is constantly taking steps, both small and large, to refine and improve the way it prepares its students and program participants to lead—both in today’s world and in a future we can’t yet imagine. By being creative, nimble,... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

are my tips on mastering the team meeting. Meeting Purpose Set a clear purpose for your team meeting. What do you want your team to get out of the time spent together? Do you want them to stay informed about larger topics in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

cross-sector and cross-border partnerships needed to execute the model. Adding new information about how pharmaceutical companies handle global public health challenges. Jessica Martinez, a former Big Pharma executive who joined the Bill... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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  • May 2017 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic brands and promoting a collective creative ecosystem fueled by the input of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big... View Details
Keywords: Retailing; Preference Elicitation; Big Data; Predictive Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Fashion; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; E-commerce; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Canada; North America
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  • 18 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

information daily, the repeated communications seemed puzzling to Neeley, at least at first. The researchers moved forward to investigate what sort of events triggered managers to deploy multiple messages. They studied the communication... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • Fast Answer

Company databases: which database to choose?

Which company database should I use? If you have a narrow information need see Databases by Subject, or use the search box with a narrower topic. We subscribe to... View Details
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

with students across several executive education programs. Detailed curriculum information for each program associated with this unit can be found on the executive education website: Program for Leadership Development General Management... View Details
  • Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

benefit greatly from these connections. Find opportunities to help others grow. Whether or not you're a manager, you should understand that everyone needs sponsors, coaches, and mentors. You can mentor newer or younger employees formally or View Details
  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management

By: Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe and Hongyi Li
This paper shows that the trend towards flatter hierarchies in large US firms since the mid-80's has been accompanied by increased centralization of activities at the top of the organization. In particular, the number of functional managers (e.g., Chief Financial... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; United States
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  • 15 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Gregory L. Richards; Video Game; Web Services
  • July 2023 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

India Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure for All

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Amitabh Kant, India Sherpa in the year of India's G20 Presidency, and Nandan Nilekani iconic tech entrepreneur wondered how to share India's model of digital public infrastructure to build social and economic inclusion. 'India Stack', the umbrella term for India's DPI... View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Asia; South Asia; India
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  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

studied searches primarily conducted on behalf of companies with 1,500 to 55,000 employees in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, finance, insurance, real estate, retail, and information technology. United States companies... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry Bennigson trace the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • Web

FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

make sure I receive an email in the future? Please login to the alumni website and update your email preferences to receive virtual programming emails. Zoom Information I'm registered. When will I receive the Zoom link/dial-in... View Details
  • Web

Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

research materials, progress reports, and other documentation associated with the Hawthorne Studies in both paper-based and microform records. The materials contain information on overall organization, methodology, and particular test... View Details