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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Sreedhari D. Desai

    Rohit Deshpande

    Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
    • 02 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

    What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Barley
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Strategy, Governance and Valuation

    By: Krishna G. Palepu
    Professor Palepu's current research focuses on strategy and governance. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western multinationals... View Details
    • 30 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

    foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 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
    • January 1990 (Revised October 1993)
    • Case

    Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (A)

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Very early in the history of biotechnology (about 1979), Monsanto made a major commitment to move into this field. This case recounts the history from the point of view of the eminent scientist hired to head up corporate R&D. He took Monsanto from a very traditional... View Details
    Keywords: History; Transition; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 01 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    First Look - November 1, 2016

    Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Emergia: Driving Profitability on Help Desk Contracts

    Emergia wants to keep its customer happy with its contact center service, but the margins on the help desk contract are dangerously low. Can Miguel Neira, the COO, increase margins while preserving the customer relationship? View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Operations; Performance Capacity; Performance Evaluation; Mathematical Methods; Service Industry
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    • Video

    Entrepreneurship - the HBS Way

    • 12 Nov 2019
    • Video

    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, discusses how the firm has been able to create a world class innovation center in Bangalore despite... View Details
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

    In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as the center of the city's... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • February 2024
      • Teaching Note

      AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19

      By: Mark Egan and C. Fritz Foley
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 224-020. 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... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting; Investor Relations; Beverage Industry; Corporate Finance; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Crisis Management; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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      • 06 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

      this all in perspective. His recent book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours, published by Harvard Business Press, looks at the growing global influence of China and View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Leadership and History

      By: Walter A. Friedman
      Historians have written a lot about business leaders, especially successful ones. In fact, rags-to-riches stories have come to embody the philosophy of America itself, yet the term "business leadership" was rarely used until the early twentieth century. This chapter... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; History; Leadership
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      • Article

      Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

      By: Mark Seasholes, Radu Burlacu, Patrice Fontaine and Sonia Jimenez-Garces
      This paper mathematically transforms unobservable rational expectation equilibrium model parameters (information precision and supply uncertainty) into a single variable that is correlated with expected returns and that can be estimated with recently observed data. Our... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Premiums; Cross-sectional Asset Pricing; REE Models; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Investment Return
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      • 11 Oct 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

      The United States and Germany remain atop the latest Business Competitiveness Index, with China continuing to slip in the rankings while India ascends, according to a report released from Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

        Tsedal Neeley

        Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details