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  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

percentage points higher in patient satisfaction surveys than specialists with whom the primary care doctor didn’t train, finds new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. PCPs and specialists who spent their early years together... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 30 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 30, 2016

    forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell
    The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Quality; Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Accounting Fraud; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Scandal; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Accounting Industry; Energy Industry
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      Jill J. Avery

      Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
      • Research Summary

      The Future of MBA Education

      David Garvin, together with Srikant Datar and Patrick Cullen, is examining the future of MBA education and the evolving role of business schools. The research has several components: interviews with business school deans and business executives to identify the... View Details

        Nori Gerardo Lietz

        Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Starting a Private Investment Firm.

        Nori Gerardo Lietz is the founder of Areté... View Details

        • 29 Jan 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

        Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
        • Case

        PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal and Matthew Bird
        The regional head of supply chain for PepsiCo South America Foods and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agricultural research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details
        Keywords: Food; Supply Chain; Planning; Growth and Development Strategy; Leading Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Peru
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          Ashish Nanda

          Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
          • 02 Aug 2021
          • Research & Ideas

          What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

          touting their pay transparency policies as a means of ensuring fairness. But, as it turns out, pay transparency doesn’t necessarily increase workers’ wages, writes Harvard Business School professor Zoe Cullen in a new working paper. More than 20 US states and 10 View Details
          Keywords: by Avery Forman
          • 04 May 2011
          • Research & Ideas

          Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

          temptation on work performance. The idea for the study came from a conversation that Piovesan and his research partner Alessandro Bucciol of the University of Verona had with Daniel Houser, head of George Mason's Interdisciplinary View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding
          • 23 Mar 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

          Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
          • Article

          The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances: Lessons from Volvo-Renault

          By: Robert Bruner and Robert Spekman
          This article explores sources of failure in strategic alliances drawing on field research into one of the most prominent alliance collapses in recent years. The alliance of Volvo and Renault married the two largest enterprises in their respective countries for economic... View Details
          Keywords: Business or Company Management; Alliances; Failure; Auto Industry; Europe
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          • 10 May 2022
          • Research & Ideas

          Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

          areas, but there are fewer success stories today. At the macro level, the profit squeeze is just hard.” The working paper was co-written by HBS doctoral student Innessa Colaiacovo; Margaret Dalton, an analyst at the Center for Economic... View Details
          Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
          • Research Summary

          Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel

          By: Janice H. Hammond
          Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details
          • Research Summary

          The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

          By: Ethan S. Bernstein

          Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

          Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
          • September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
          • Case

          AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19

          By: Mark Egan, C. Fritz Foley, Esel Cekin and Emilie Billaud
          In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a workforce of 160,000 in 2020, AB InBev... View Details
          Keywords: Beer; Forecasting; COVID-19; Decision; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science; Crisis Management; Decisions; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Distribution; Production; Business Processes; Strategic Planning; Health Pandemics; Digital Transformation; Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; Belgium; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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          • 09 Apr 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

          For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
          Keywords: by Glen Justice
          • 02 Jun 2021
          • Research & Ideas

          A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

          documenting the disparities we’ve known about for 20 or 30 years,” says Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “One more research paper that finds that minority health care is separate and unequal may be important but is... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health