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    Capitalism at Risk

    The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before and raised living standards to new heights. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 came within a hair’s breadth of triggering another Great... View Details

    • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
    • Supplement

    From "BIG" Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
    In August 2023, Raviv Zoller, CEO of ICL Group, discussed his upcoming business trip to St. Louis with Eduard Croitoru, VP of ICL Corporate Initiatives, to commemorate the construction of ICL's new $400 million advanced manufacturing facility. In preparation for the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Agribusiness; Accounting; Communication; Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Machinery and Machining; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Globalization; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Battery Industry; Israel; United States; China
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    Endowed Fellowship The Volandes Family Endowed Fellowship was established through the generosity of Peter J. Volandes (MBA 1997) and Sophia Volandes in honor of Peter’s 25th Reunion. Peter is currently the executive vice president and principal of Volmar View Details
    • 16 Feb 2024
    • News

    Remembering Angela Chao (MBA 2001)

    Chao Family Statement on Passing of Angela Chao Chao Family Statement on Passing of Angela Chao We are deeply saddened by the news of Angela Chao’s tragic and untimely death. Angela has been a valued friend to Harvard Business School for many years, serving not only on... View Details
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Case

    LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details
    Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model
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    • October 2012 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Carolina for Kibera

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Beth-Ann Kutchma and Cailin B. Hammer
    Carolina for Kibera (CFK) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote youth leadership and gender and ethnic cooperation in Kibera, the largest unstructured settlement situated in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya. CFK's programs constructively... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Power and Influence; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Enterprise; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Kenya; United States
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    Overview

    By: Mattias E. Fibiger
    Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

    Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-use Goods

    By: Maxim Alekseev and Xinyue Lin
    Policymakers increasingly use trade instruments to address national security concerns. This paper studies optimal policy for dual-use goods, items with both military and civilian applications. We begin by documenting that regulation and trade flows of dual-use goods... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; National Security; Trade; Taxation; Financial Instruments; Macroeconomics
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    • 2025
    • Article

    Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments

    By: Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
    Researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) algorithms to investigate causal heterogeneity in randomized experiments. Despite their promise, ML algorithms may fail to accurately ascertain heterogeneous treatment effects under practical settings with... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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    • August 2020 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    NextView Ventures

    By: Jo Tango and Nori Gerardo Lietz
    David Beisel, Rob Go, and Lee Hower are non-partners at different-and-established venture capital (VC) firms. They decide to leave their positions to start a new seed-stage VC firm. The case covers the genesis of the firm, the formulation of its strategy and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Strategy
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    An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management

    By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve
    We develop a multistakeholder, multicriteria decision-making framework for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, for evaluating and selecting operational improvements to the air traffic management system. The selected set of improvements will... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Operations; Performance Improvement; Government Administration; Air Transportation Industry; Europe
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    • December 2017
    • Article

    Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Nancy Rothbard and Steffanie Wilk
    Across multiple studies, we examine how identity conflict and enhancement within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking,... View Details
    Keywords: Identity; Interpersonal Communication; Sales; Performance
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    • December 2014
    • Article

    Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity

    By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
    Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; United States
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      Sustainability in the Boardroom

      More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success—and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions... View Details

      • 30 Apr 2024
      • Book

      When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

      construction industry launched in 2014. Following its admission of guilt for paying bribes and as part of its settlement with Brazilian, U.S., and Swiss authorities, Odebrecht implemented state-of-the-art audit, internal control, and... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 29 Mar 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor

      Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
      • Research Summary

      The Global Networks of Multinational Firms (with Maggie Chen)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We construct indices of network density at both pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a... View Details
      • 2022
      • Article

      Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

      By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank
      Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details
      Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry
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      • November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
      • Module Note

      Strategy Execution Module 9: Building a Balanced Scorecard

      By: Robert Simons
      This module reading explains how to construct a strategy map and build a balanced scorecard. Using an internal value chain model, the module illustrates how a balanced scorecard can support and enable customer management, innovation, operations, and post-sale service... View Details
      Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Performance Measurement; Strategy Map; Business Goals; Customer Measures; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Business Model
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      It's Not Easy Being Green: The Role of Self-Evaluations in Explaining Support of Environmental Issues

      By: Scott Sonenshein, K. A. DeCelles and Jane E. Dutton
      Using a mixed methods design, we examine the role of self-evaluations in influencing support for environmental issues. In Study 1—an inductive, qualitative study—we develop theory about how environmental issue supporters evaluate themselves in a mixed fashion,... View Details
      Keywords: Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Evaluation; Cognition and Thinking
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