Difference In Differences - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

principle for organizing that reflects your company’s very sense of self.” It is intended to provide a rationale for why each employee comes to work. In achieving deep purpose, Gulati maintains that tradeoffs View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

analysis sheds light on why individual nations have registered sharp differences in innovative performance. The strong effect of location on innovation holds important implications for companies and creates... View Details

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

improvements improve life somewhere in the globe, but not necessarily in the U.S.A." Bill Donohue wrote that "In the 20's ... the root cause may perhaps have been the massive building of low cost... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Supporting recent HBS graduates making a difference working in Africa. Thanks to generous alumni support, the... View Details

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

number increased to 4.75 percent. In the match treatment, 4.41 percent chose to donate. And in the overhead-free treatment, a comparatively whopping 8.55 percent gave money to the foundation. There was a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

hand" of the Chandlerian managers. Perhaps one of the main differences with Chandler's work was that the entrepreneurs and managers creating and running big corporations in Latin America also appeared... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

The Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series No results found in Events Suggestions: Were any results found in one of the other content buckets on the left? Try removing some search filters. Use View Details

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

case study in 1994 when Fahey was CEO of Time Life, ironically facing many of the same challenges with earlier generations of media and technology. Fifteen years later it was an opportunity to observe an elite general manager at work... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) The Entrepreneurial Manager In order to “educate leaders who make a View Details

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

full-service hospitals. Traditional geographic expansion has been focused on acquiring health care facilities that merely reproduce the same services in the different areas without regard to value. View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

HBS and recently wrote an article called Sales Managers Must Manage for Top Sales Magazine. “It’s all about the difference between learning to take care of yourself and learning to take care of others, from being an individual contributor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

University professors Suresh Nallareddy and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, analyze data created by tax filings to compare effects on workers at varying compensation levels in different US states with and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

3: Be different. While many managers talk about uniqueness, when the going gets tough, they attempt to imitate their competitors. To be a price maker, be different! The difference can be in the nature of the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

different kind of venture capital firm. Within six months Levitan raised $75 million, eventually creating the largest venture capital fund in the state of Washington, now totaling more than $400 million... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

economics," says Shawn A. Cole, an associate professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. "A frequent criticism of bankers in the recent crisis is that they took a lot of incentive pay... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

tend to fluctuate wildly, along with market demand. A one-percent difference in demand can equal up to a 10-percent change in price, according to the HBS case. Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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Julie Battilana's Most Recent Columns for "Le Monde"

By: Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana is a regular contributor to the French newspaper "Le Monde." Below are her most recent articles.

Where are the Political Ideas Being Produced?

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16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

opinions implicitly and discount others, especially if they suggest a different direction or approach,'" Garvin says. "They see such advice as a threat to their expertise." Yet the advice-giver may also play a role View Details