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  • Research Summary

Research Interests

Research interests are focused on issues of innovation and productivity as they relate to improved outcomes in biotechnology and pharmaceutical R and D. These span topics from decision-making, organizational structure and communication, to the development of novel... View Details

  • March 1987 (Revised April 1987)
  • Background Note

Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins

By: Benson P. Shapiro
Explains the differences between commodities and specialties and defines four different types of specialty products. The analysis is customer oriented. Special attention is given to the distinctions between functions (product- ) and relationship (vendor-oriented)... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities
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Shapiro, Benson P. "Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins." Harvard Business School Background Note 587-120, March 1987. (Revised April 1987.)
  • 30 Jan 2017
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Subhash Chandra Full Interview

  • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
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Diasporas: Causes and Effects

By: Tarun Khanna and Paula Campbell
Articulates a simple supply-demand framework to understand why people immigrate and focuses attention on the specialized cross-border intermediaries that facilitate such movement. Analyzes a series of important effects, primarily economic, of the diaspora communities... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Economics; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business or Company Management
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Khanna, Tarun, and Paula Campbell. "Diasporas: Causes and Effects." Harvard Business School Background Note 703-510, April 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
  • Career Coach

Jamal Eason

Jamal (HBS’11, West Point ‘04) enjoys working with alumni & students to navigate their career paths in product management and general management in the tech sector. Leveraging his 16 years of experience in general management,... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 01 Jan 2014
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To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

  • 03 Apr 2019
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Do Your Experiential Marketing Moves Produce Enough ROI?

    The Internet’s Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful

    A unifying framework is presented for thinking about the diverse digital trnsformations of the past decade: their utilities, their harms, and their ability to reward play. Individual creativity has been liberated from corporate gatekeepers, and platforms have... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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    Salter, Malcolm S. "The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-062, March 2024.
    • 2022
    • Case

    Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Immigration; Public Opinion; Ethics
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    Hoffman, Andrew J. "Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." William Davidson Institute Case 3-951-926, 2022.
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    Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    photographs by Polaroid employees from 1948 to the early 1950s, spanning the transition from sepia to black-and-white images, reveal the playful nature of the medium in everyday scenes as well as its... View Details
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    Overview

    By: Susanna Gallani
    In her current research, Professor Gallani draws on economic and sociological theories to analyze the design of incentive and performance management systems. She explores the effectiveness of monetary and non-monetary incentives, feedback systems, and types of... View Details
    • November 30, 2020
    • Editorial

    Don't Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience

    By: Amit Goldenberg and Erika Weisz
    Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state. In this piece, the authors share two additional findings: First, the larger... View Details
    Keywords: Bias; Emotions; Perception
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    Goldenberg, Amit, and Erika Weisz. "Don't Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 30, 2020).
    • 17 Oct 2023
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    HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

    If there’s one thing our LEAD (Leadership and Organizational Behavior) Professor David Fubini (MBA 1980) tried to drill into the MBA Class of 2024 Section I, it’s that we should take the time to thank the people who got us to HBS –... View Details
    • March 1998 (Revised August 2000)
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    Bumper Acquisition (C), A

    By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
    Carries the negotiation between Thermo-Impact and Medallion Capital through October 1996. The companies began talks in 1995 when Medallion offered to buy Thermo-Impact. Students view developments from the perspective of Thermo-Impact's owners and must make decisions... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois
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    Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "Bumper Acquisition (C), A." Harvard Business School Case 898-201, March 1998. (Revised August 2000.)
    • 26 Apr 2021
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    A High-Profile Gender Discrimination Case Pushed VC Firms to Hire More Women. It’s Hardly Helped Female Entrepreneurs.

      Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience

      Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state. In this piece, the authors share two additional findings: First, the... View Details
      • 2021
      • Article

      How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change

      By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
      Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
      Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
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      Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change." European Accounting Review 30, no. 4 (2021): 583–609.
      • September 2015 (Revised February 2016)
      • Case

      Novell (A): When an Activist Hedge Fund Came Calling on the Board

      By: Richard L. Nolan
      No corporation and its board of directors is immune to a disruptive shareholder activist attack. The Novell (A) and (B) cases take students through a shareholder activist attack and its aftermath—a saga that spanned 5 years. The cases outline the activist playbook in... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism
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      Nolan, Richard L. "Novell (A): When an Activist Hedge Fund Came Calling on the Board." Harvard Business School Case 916-404, September 2015. (Revised February 2016.)
      • 16 Nov 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

      President-elect, saying “thank you” and seeing the best in people is how to get their attention and bring them along, the way that Nelson Mandela did in healing South Africa. Keep it up! If I had more time, I’d thank him for running an... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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