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- 12 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions
- December 2002
- Article
Process Management and Technological Innovation: A Longitudinal Study of the Photography and Paint Industries
By: Mary J. Benner and Michael Tushman
Benner, Mary J., and Michael Tushman. "Process Management and Technological Innovation: A Longitudinal Study of the Photography and Paint Industries." Administrative Science Quarterly 47, no. 4 (December 2002): 676–706.
- March 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Compilation
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's leadership during America's greatest crisis, the 1861-1865 Civil War. Using Lincoln's own words, the case traces the development of the 16th president's leadership philosophy, ethics, and skills in the years leading up to war.
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Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War." Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115, March 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal
By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a...
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Do, Quy-Toan, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-065, April 2007. (Revised February 2009, previously titled "Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal.")
- July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique...
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Keywords:
Female;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Health & Wellness;
Healthcare;
Price Policies;
Minimum Advertised Price;
Differentiation;
Positioning;
Growth;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Price;
Disruption;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Competition;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Product Development;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Social Enterprise;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Canada;
United States;
United Kingdom
- March 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the...
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Keywords:
Female;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Health & Wellness;
Healthcare;
Price Policies;
Minimum Advertised Price;
Differentiation;
Positioning;
Growth;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Price;
Disruption;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Competition;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Product Development;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Social Enterprise;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Canada;
United States;
United Kingdom
Israeli, Ayelet. "The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 519-055, March 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile is in the midst of a ten-year study looking at, among other things, how time pressure in a corporate setting affects employee creativity. She recently presented early findings and an...
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- June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement
By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues....
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Keywords:
Social Movement;
Gender Equality;
Writing;
Social Issues;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Poverty;
Books;
Change;
Leadership
Battilana, Julie, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Michael Norris. "Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement." Harvard Business School Case 418-004, June 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
A Nation Divided: The United States and the Challenge of Secession
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
Americans elected Abraham Lincoln as the nation's first Republican president in November of 1860. Northern political leaders had formed the Republican Party only a few years before, in large measure to combat the spread of slavery. Southerners had long been wary of...
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Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "A Nation Divided: The United States and the Challenge of Secession." Harvard Business School Case 716-048, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
wheels of the company turning while working out of the public gaze to the CEO as a man or woman with a mixture of charm, guile, brilliance, and cruelty who remakes the industry and in some cases View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2022
- Working Paper
Gender Inequality and the Direction of Ideas: Evidence from the Weinstein Scandal and #MeToo
By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
How do the Harvey Weinstein scandal and #MeToo affect women’s likelihood of working
in male-dominated domains and the types of ideas developed in Hollywood? To discern these
events’ impact, we exploit the variation in whether a producer previously collaborated with...
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Keywords:
Gender Inequality;
Gender Segregation;
Social Movement;
Direction Of Innovation;
Creative Industries;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Social Issues;
Creativity;
Film Entertainment
Luo, Hong, and Laurina Zhang. "Gender Inequality and the Direction of Ideas: Evidence from the Weinstein Scandal and #MeToo." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-107, March 2021. (Revised December 2022.)
- 01 Apr 1974
- Conference Presentation
Urban Communes and Family History
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Urban Communes and Family History." Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Denver, April 01, 1974. (Published as "Roots versus Restlessness: Cooperative Households, The City, and Recurrent Issues in American Family Life." Massachusetts Review 17 (summer 1976):331-53.)
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Publishing), a soon-to-be-published book by HBS Professor David Yoffie, who served as moderator of the panel. "Judo is the art of hand-to-hand fighting in which the weight and efforts of one's opponents...
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by Jim Aisner
- 2018
- Book
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to...
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Keywords:
Economic Systems;
Competition;
Policy;
Fairness;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 20 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
Keywords:
by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
- 2016
- Chapter
Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets
By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely...
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Keywords:
Measurement and Metrics;
Marketing Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Monopoly;
Television Entertainment;
Public Opinion;
Geographic Scope;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets." In Strategy Beyond Markets. Vol. 34, edited by John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, 367–411. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
- November 2010
- Article
Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link
By: Nitin Nohria
This article discusses the weakening connections between business growth and job creation. The industrial economy of the 20th century ensured that growing firms would need to add workers, but the increasingly globalized and information-based economy of the early 21st...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Economic Growth;
Jobs and Positions;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Welfare;
Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin. "Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 44.
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
Harvard Business School professor Lynn S. Paine's new book, Value Shift, argues that companies can't consider themselves amoral or apart from society anymore—that the relationship between companies and View Details
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by Carla Tishler
- 2014
- Working Paper
Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn the comparative development of the Muslim world. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities...
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Keywords:
Islam;
Inequality In Land Quality;
Wealth Accumulation;
Public Good Investment;
Conflict;
Wealth;
Geography;
Religion;
Trade
Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo. "Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-076, March 2015.
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in thinking that money, power, View Details
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by HBS Staff