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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • December 2019 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Impossible Foods

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Impossible Foods founder and CEO Pat Brown started the company out of concern over livestock production’s impact on climate change. Impossible’s mission is to end consumption of animals by 2035, and its strategy is to develop and market plant-based foods so similar to... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Consumer Behavior; Behavior; Venture Capital; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Production; Product Development; Product Positioning; Growth Management; Global Strategy; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China; Asia; California; Hong Kong; Taiwan
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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

Consumer Neuroscience: Advances in Understanding Consumer Psychology By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Carolyn Yoon Abstract—While the study of consumer behavior has been enriched by improved abilities to generate new insights, many of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

highlights the key insights from the rich firm-level literature on MNCs. We then focus on how financial conditions in host countries affect the extent of FDI-related capital inflows, shape the operations of foreign firms, and mediate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 24 Jan 2011
  • HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

different fields,” says Grushka-Cockayne, whose research is on data science, forecasting, project management, and behavioral decision-making. “Our work is focused on using crowds for prediction and for forecasting something that is... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games

By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Strategy Execution Robert Simons Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Tatiana Sandino Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

behavior and cognition miss. The chapter seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for a turn towards historicism in entrepreneurial studies, which is already partly underway. The authors stress that the path will not be easy, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

anything less than excellence; treat everyone with respect; provide training and role models; and reinforce the right behaviors and hold people accountable for the wrong behaviors. David Wittenberg offered advice on measurement: “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • News

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Demonstration Policy | About

respect. All members of the HBS community, in joining it, agree to integrate the values of: Respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others, Honesty and integrity in dealing with all members of the community, and Accountability for personal View Details
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

Technology and Operations Management Unit. He discussed with students how German soccer team TSG Hoffenheim deploys analytics in scouting and player development. He also noted how New Zealand’s yacht designers and crew prepared for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is owned and View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • News

Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade