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March 2018
Teaching Note

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (A) and (B)

Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines the ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to... View Details

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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

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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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing

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

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

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

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

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

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

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 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

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

unique assortment at Victoria's Secret clearly leverages its web presence. And Toys "R" Us recently announced that it will add significant amounts of unique merchandise to its assortment for this holiday shopping season. The marriage of... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements sparked a great deal of backlash and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

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