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  • 10 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

I applied to MBA programs because I wanted to change careers.  I went from spending six years at one company to trying out a number of industries and function areas in two years.  During that time I learned two important things: 1. Maybe... View Details
  • Working Paper

Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application

By: Flora Feng, Charis Li and Shunyuan Zhang
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years featured by unique offerings from individual providers. Despite the perceived value of uniqueness, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness in P2P platforms like Airbnb has been largely... View Details
Keywords: Peer-to-peer Markets; Marketplace Matching; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Marketing
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the... View Details
Keywords: Entry; Growth; Industrial Policy; Innovation; R＆D; Reallocation; Selection; Business Ventures; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Policy; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

concentrate on fostering a stronger trade partnership between the US and China rather than thinking about it primarily as a competition. Janik Kersten commented that “China today is not yet taking part View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Business of Emerging Markets

    economies, including issues of corporate reputation and responsibility in business. Right now I’m working on business involvement in education CSR initiatives, using View Details
    • August 2008
    • Case

    The Chubb Corporation in China

    By: Li Jin, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Aldo Sesia
    The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese government, as part of its "reform and open" policy invited a delegation of Chubb... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Insurance Industry; China; United States
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    • November 2022
    • Teaching Note

    Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

    By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
    Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 2018
    • Book

    Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
    Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Theory; Environmental Management; Policy; Social Issues; Social Entrepreneurship; Pollutants
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    • 13 Mar 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions

    Keywords: by Craig J. Chapman & Thomas J. Steenburgh
    • Web

    Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

    opportunities to use those skills in the market. Other alumni may have a different value proposition, but the same thought process applies.... View Details
    • 21 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

    CEOs are communicators. Studies show that CEOs spend 85 percent of their time in communication-related activities, including speeches, meetings, and phone calls with people both inside and outside the firm.... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    Tesla in 2023: 'Electrified' Competition

    By: Eric Van den Steen, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    Over its 17 years in existence, Tesla had redefined people’s view of electric cars, and in 2020, the company saw its stock rise by more than 700% to became the most valuable carmaker in the world. In December 2020, Tesla celebrated its fifth consecutive quarter of... View Details
    Keywords: Barrier To Entry; Competitive Advantage; Innovation; Tesla; Automotive Industry; Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Values; Vision; Learning By Doing; Economies Of Scale; Electric Vehicle; Scenario Planning; Batteries; Competitive Strategy; Product Positioning; Profit; Competition; Industry Growth; Auto Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2018
    • News

    Disrupting India’s Dental Market

    slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found... View Details
    Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
    • 27 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

    To other functional departments such as finance and operations, the sales and marketing functions look alike. After all, they are both "outward looking," focused on View Details
    Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
    • February 2015
    • Article

    Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

    By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
    We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Corporate Finance
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    • November 2019
    • Teaching Note

    The Bundesliga in the U.S.

    By: Stephen A. Greyser, Sascha L. Schmidt and Florian Holzmayer
    This Teaching Note addresses the classroom use of the case on the strategy of Germany’s premier football (soccer) league to “win the marketplace of U.S. sports broadcasters and consumers.” The note includes study questions and a teaching plan that also draws on... View Details
    Keywords: Media; Sports; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; United States
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    • September 2014 (Revised September 2015)
    • Case

    Doing Business in Morocco

    By: Jill Avery, Tonia Junker and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Morocco. It highlights Morocco's ongoing economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2014 in the context of its historical, political, and cultural background. The case summarizes some of... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Market; Emerging Economies; Africa; Global Strategy; Operations Management; Development Economics; Geographic Scope; Globalization; Business History; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Strategy; Auto Industry; Africa; Morocco
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    • Research Summary

    FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of the Local Financial Markets (joint with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Selin Sayek)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    In this paper, we examine the various links among foreign direct investment (FDI), financial markets, and economic growth. We explore whether countries with better financial systems can exploit FDI more efficiently. Empirical analysis, using cross-country data between... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

    By: Ishita Sen, Umang Khetan, Jane Li and Ioana Neamtu
    We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,... View Details
    Keywords: Interest Rates; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Investment Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • Research Summary

    Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

    In joint work with John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist, we investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new... View Details