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  • 18 Nov 2019
  • Video

Alberto Grimoldi

Alberto Grimold, President of the Argentina-based apparel and footwear company Grimoldi, discusses the challenges of competing with the many companies in the informal economy which pay no tax, and explains how this impacts decisions to compete in channels such as... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Delay as Agenda Setting

Keywords: by James J. Anton & Dennis A. Yao

    NoamWasserman.com

    Noam's research focuses on the early, often difficult decisions founders face that can make or break their startups.  This site includes his long-time research blog, resources tied to his Founders' Dilemmas course and his book (The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating... View Details
    • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman
    Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly defined the company. Over the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Management Style; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Situation or Environment; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; India
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    • 01 Aug 2022
    • News

    Profits over Planet? Experts Eye Companies at Crucial Moment for Climate Change Fight

    • February 2020
    • Article

    Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard

    By: Julian Zlatev, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin and Dale T. Miller
    The motivation to feel moral powerfully guides people’s prosocial behavior. We propose that people’s efforts to preserve their moral self-regard conform to a moral threshold model. This model predicts that people are primarily concerned with whether their... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Perception
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    • 01 May 2013
    • News

    Apple’s Ive Seen Risking iOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul

    • 21 Mar 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Financial Services; Banking
    • 15 Mar 2013
    • News

    Start-ups fail because of people problems, says Harvard's Noam Wasserman

    • March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
    • Background Note

    Activity-Based Costing and Capacity

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Discusses the use of budgeted rather than historical data in an activity-based costing (ABC) model and argues for calculating rates using practical capacity, not actual utilization. An ABC model need not be limited to analysis of historical data. When cost driver rates... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Accounting Industry
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    • November 1990 (Revised June 1991)
    • Case

    Final Voyage of the Challenger

    Provides a summary of technical and organizational details that led to the decision to launch the Challenger Space Shuttle, and to the ensuing accident. Details of design and testing milestones of the Space Shuttle, with a focus on the Solid Rocket Booster, offer... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Risk Management; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Processes; Aerospace Industry; United States
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    • May 2008
    • Article

    When Winning Is Everything

    By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
    In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    • 14 Nov 2013
    • News

    Ranked and yanked

    • 17 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Being the Boss

    determining an employee's level of engagement with the work. 2 We know of a small-company owner, a warm, decent woman, so pressed for time she consciously decided to avoid small talk at the office. She never opened up to people about... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • July 2012 (Revised July 2014)
    • Case

    Warby Parker: Vision of a 'Good' Fashion Brand

    By: Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez Villa
    In its third year of existence and poised to double its workforce, Warby Parker attributed its success to an innovative approach in the eyewear industry and to the company culture that supported it. With a mission combining social and business goals, the company had... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Business And Society; Social Responsiblity; Organizational Behavior; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Rethinking the Role of History in Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927

    By: David A. Moss and Jonathan B. Lackow
    In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory.  It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming evidence, but for... View Details
    Keywords: Economic History; Decision Choices and Conditions; Government Legislation; Law; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 2015
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Competitive Strategies Marketing Reading

    By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
    Core Curriculum Readings in Marketing cover the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks that business students must study.
    This Reading illuminates the dynamics of companies in competition and offers a process for planning and executing marketing... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy
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    • March 2021
    • Article

    Opting-in to Prosocial Incentives

    By: Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
    The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Field Experiments; Recycling; Prosocial Motivation; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    • 25 Apr 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

    Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    “I hadn’t cried that much since my mother passed away. Somebody needed to do something to fix this broken system, and given our position in the industry, I felt that we needed to take a stand and do something. This has got to stop.” Still, Stack View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald