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  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
  • 04 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System

Keywords: by David A. Moss; Banking; Financial Services
  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Business Model; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; Netherlands
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  • April 2024 (Revised February 2025)
  • Teaching Note

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-360.The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya
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Reviews for Beauty Imagined

By: Geoffrey G. Jones

“This illuminating account of the history of the beauty business, as well as its current challenges in the face of globalization, offers unique insights on the drivers of success and failure in an industry in which branding and marketing are at the heart of... View Details

  • 21 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

is critical,” he observes. “Even with my global experience, there was still that level of learning that I needed to have about Argentina before I could add value because individual countries have nuances that necessitate an understanding... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

turned down a date from her future husbancd (classmate Jonathon Jacobson) because she didn't want to be distracted from her studies. Soon after arriving at Soldiers Field, Jacobson realized her ability to listen and express herself meshed well with the skills View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." Listing your assumptions about a prospective plan and assessing their plausibility can help determine the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

registration costs and long travel and waiting time in areas with low polling station density. Similarly, there is a real need to improve citizens' faith in US elections, but again, this may be more effectively addressed by upgrading... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

of good things going on in terms of sponsorship. Now we just need to understand better what does work and why.” “So, while you might be hoping sponsorship might close the gender gap by encouraging high-ability women who are reluctant to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
  • 21 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim
  • 2021
  • Book

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Outcome or Result; Business Model; Conflict and Resolution; Organizational Culture
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  • 2019
  • Article

The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
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  • July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

RunKeeper

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage Funding; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Health Industry
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective
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  • January 2012 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability

Dow Chemical is one of the few major American industrial corporations that was founded in the late 19th century that is still in existence. From its origins producing bromine out of the brine underneath Midland, Michigan, the company has evolved from a diversified... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry
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  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

Meanwhile, their first run of product was at the copacker, the Shopify site was awaiting its final bells and whistles, and launch parties needed to be finalized. Dry January was just around the corner, and all the evidence suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

view is that venture capital is a commodity. If you look at the size of the funds that are being put together today, it's not difficult to put money together. "Traditional venture capitals need to move in either one of two... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss