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- March 2009 (Revised January 2025)
- Background Note
A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China
By: William C. Kirby, J. Megan Greene, Tracy Yuen Manty, Daniel Fu, Yuanzhuo Wang, Noah B. Truwit and Aqib Zakaria
Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on the Chinese Mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), on Taiwan, had improved significantly since 2008. Taiwan investment in China had played a major role in China’s economic boom in recent decades. ... View Details
Keywords: History; Development Economics; Investment; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Financial Crisis; China; Taiwan
Kirby, William C., J. Megan Greene, Tracy Yuen Manty, Daniel Fu, Yuanzhuo Wang, Noah B. Truwit, and Aqib Zakaria. "A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China." Harvard Business School Background Note 909-408, March 2009. (Revised January 2025.)
- April 2013
- Supplement
AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)
By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-125, April 2013.
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
Roaring 20s and Great Depression. A stable and supportive marriage was a rock, as was a friend who helped him see and spread the idea that alcoholism wasn’t a moral failing, but a disease. Once sober, Wilson started support groups that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- July 2023
- Article
So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov
With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details
Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
Bapna, Ravi, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad, and Akhmed Umyarov. "So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." Management Science 69, no. 7 (July 2023): 3939–3957.
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
its national character. Their branding messages have “CRED,” as Ofek calls it. In other words, they are: Credible. The qualities a country promotes must reflect reality. Spain’s legalization of same-sex marriage in 2005 reinforced the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
first extends his hand then thinks better of it and avoids the handshake. He shows it over and over, in both real time and slow motion. Letterman concludes the segment by commenting that it might be too early to tell how the marriage of... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
Jamie_Hall Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods last August was the corporate equivalent of mixing tap water with organic extra virgin olive oil. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies with more different value propositions. Even so, it was surprising to hear... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
up with the right answers, he found those who had more people in their social network from different cultures who disliked each other did about 23 percent worse on the test. This makes sense, says Chua. "Just as a child observing parents not getting along may develop... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
including cell phones and robots, are bound to once again fundamentally reshape notions about our relationships. Dina Gerdeman: Can you explain how the plow is responsible for creating monogamy and marriage as we know it today? Debora... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect. "Watch where... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
marriages began with online dates. “[Online dating platforms] are an extremely interesting application of the general question of influence and digital interactions,” he says, with lessons that can apply to other online engagement... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
during the “two crisis points” of marriage and motherhood, life events when a woman might consider giving up her profession. The advice even includes how the bride-to-be should think about her relationship with her mother-in-law.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
in social networks and online communities as a source of support. And 19 percent of all U.S. marriages are now the result of bride and groom meeting via the Internet. When regulators start trying to constrain the Internet, let's be aware... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
days would call African Americans 'Aunt' or 'Uncle' or by their first name, Ben or Sarah or whatever. They would never address them by their surname." Although Breedlove's marriage to a newspaper advertising salesman named Charles... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
that they're illegal to not so repugnant that they're legal. Gay marriage became possible through the courts, not through the legislature. Judges decided that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of Massachusetts was violated.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
girls. Marie had less patience and was more outspoken about the perceived promises that Jeff had broken than she had in the past. She had told him just before he left on his trip, "Jeff, in our fifteen years of marriage I don't know... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India. Existing economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
about the move of the core companies into the client server (RISC chips and UNIX operating systems) technology that permitted them to mount a major challenge to the United States in the early 1990s, when the marriage of the corporate WANs... View Details