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  • June 2020
  • Article

Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model

By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt
Prior research advances several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Search; Legitimacy; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Learning; Mechanisms And Processes; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Qualitative Methods; Business Model Design; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Adaptation; Competition; Strategy
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The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

By: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim and Belen Villalonga
Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a... View Details
Keywords: Diversification Discount; Institutions; Labor Market; Competition; Human Capital; Diversification; Value; Capital Markets
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  • Forthcoming
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Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

By: Michelle A. Kinch and Ryan W. Buell
Prior research in social psychology has shown that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are increasingly deploying self-service... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Self-service; Empirical Operations; Behavioral Operations; Communication Technology; Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trust; Satisfaction; Financial Services Industry
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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Ripple Effect Tim Nicolette (MBA 2008) had always known he wanted to make a difference. A class in his second year at HBS—Entrepreneurship in Education Reform—provided life-changing focus. “I had done pro bono consulting work for... View Details
  • September–October 2023
  • Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details
Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return
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  • 05 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman
  • Aug 21 2017
  • Testimonial

Taking Time to Recharge, Reflect, and Grow

    Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

    We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to... View Details

    • 29 Jan 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

    • 24 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Want People to Save More? Send a Text

    third control group didn't receive text messages.) Surprisingly, the researchers found that weekly follow-up text messages proved to be about 80 percent as effective as in-person meetings—neither in-person meetings nor View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

    By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
    We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Decision Making; Interest Rates; Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Global Range; Chile
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    • 02 Oct 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Is Mandatory Nonfinancial Performance Measurement Beneficial?

    Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Takehisha Kajiwara & Ranjani Krishnan; Health
    • 24 Oct 2012
    • News

    Want People to Save More? Send a Text

    • Research Summary

    Savings among microentrepreneurs

    Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

    • 01 Aug 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

    organizational culture has a significant impact on an index comprised of annual net income growth, annual return on invested capital, and annual growth of stock price. We found that strong cultures can have either significantly positive or negative View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • 02 May 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Chiara Farronato, Harvard Business School

    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business. The Tug Of Entrepreneurs The... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • October 2013
    • Article

    With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

    By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
    To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Attitudes; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 07 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

    Keywords: by Andrea Hugill & Jordan Siegel
    • June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Jack Carlisle, CIO

    An experienced CIO hired to professionalize IT in a growing financial services firm struggles with the turmoil that follows sudden replacement of the company's CEO. Jack Carlisle must assess the changes, both actual and prospective, in an environment in which IT has... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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