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    Rebel Talent

    Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions, create chaos, and disagree when everyone else is in agreement. But in truth,... View Details

    • 02 Aug 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

    Anecdotally, employees also started sharing salaries through Google spreadsheets, according to Cullen’s research. How transparency leads to lower pay Cullen and Pakzad-Hurson studied how the labor market adjusts depending on pay... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Web

    Harvard Business School

    COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited... View Details
    • 11 Nov 2022
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

    celebrations. Who leads the club? Orry McDonald, Co-President (Admissions) The AFAA was instrumental in helping me learn more about HBS and in helping me think about my application, so it was an easy decision to volunteer for club... View Details
    • 06 Aug 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

    surprisingly then, the day after the Super Bowl, the sales of antacids are higher by about 20 percent. Sixteen million people call in sick to work. The week leading up to the game there's a Super Bowl lift in categories like condiments,... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
    • 23 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

    by facilitating direct connections between multiple types of affiliated customers, which most often leads to network effects. Think of what a shopping mall accomplishes in bringing together a multitude of sellers and buyers who interact... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • Profile

    Sebastian Velasco

    and Namibia. For a week, we visited different cities, saw unbelievable scenery, and went on a safari." The experience was so rewarding that Sebastian will lead a similar trip to Mexico for his colleagues next year. "I'm planning... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services
    • 21 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

    end of a call may be having a dramatic experience during this crisis is an important subtext for how they are navigating the conversation with me.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs:... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
    • Profile

    Kiran Gandhi

    Ideo, a leading innovation and design firm that I had never heard of before, and I was so inspired by design thinking methodology. So this summer, I’ll be one of sixteen HBS students working with Ideo and the Harvard iLab on an assignment... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment/Media
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    The Accidental Innovator

    you tell us why you chose this group? What did you find by talking to them? A: I was interviewing artists as part of a larger study of the principles, processes, and practices that lead to reliable innovation. (I'm working on a book on... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 15 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

    Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
    • March 2019
    • Article

    A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Param Singh and Anindya Ghose
    We investigate the long-term impact of competing against superstars in crowdsourcing contests. Using a unique 50-month longitudinal panel data set on 1677 software design crowdsourcing contests, we illustrate a learning effect where participants are able to improve... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Superstar Effect; Bayesian Learning; Utility; Economics Of Information System; Dynamic Structural Model; Dynamic Programming; Markov Chain; Monte Carlo; Learning; Competition; Performance Improvement
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    • December 2018
    • Case

    Corporate Transformation at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Tonia Labruyere
    When Stefan Oschmann became CEO and chairman of the executive board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2016, the company had started its transformation from a mid-tier traditional German industry player to a global modern science and technology player. The... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance With Family Ownership; Transformation; Change Management; Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    The Capitalist's Dilemma

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
    Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2015
    • Book

    What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms

    By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser and Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Service Operations; Service Delivery
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    • February 2015
    • Article

    Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

    By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
    The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
    Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
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    • September 2010
    • Article

    Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein
    This paper documents that new loans to large borrowers fell by 47% during the peak period of the financial crisis (fourth quarter of 2008) relative to the prior quarter and by 79% relative to the peak of the credit boom (second quarter of 2007). New lending for real... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Banking Industry
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    • November 2009
    • Journal Article

    A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level

    By: Diego A. Comin and Sunil Mulani
    This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i) idiosyncratic R&D innovations... View Details
    Keywords: Volatility; Microeconomics; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Exclusivity and Control

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee
    We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries, and show that whether or not a piece of content... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Revenue; Governance Controls; Digital Platforms; Competition
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      Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

      In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details