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  • 17 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

domains. Studies have found that viewing photos of famous female leaders or reading about women in their intended career field empowered women to: Give longer, better speeches that are equal in length to those of male peers. Eliminate... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency funds to Greece, View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • Article

Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Wisdom and a special cause

life. Man's greatest gift to God is what he does with his life." Media mogul and America's Cup yachtsman Ted Turner contributes, "How much you give is how you keep score," a sentiment that applies well to... View Details
  • 2010
  • Article

Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance

By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Decisions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Voting; Globalized Economies and Regions
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  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

feedback is meaningful, consider asking employees these three questions: What was your experience with COVID? What grade would you give us for managing COVID, and why? What is the most important challenge we... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

career advice and direction. The BEI Student Advisory Board is another great way for interested MBA’s to contribute to the mission of the initiative by giving feedback, tracking curriculum development, View Details
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

dare give up. Scott Cook, the founder-CEO of personal-finance software company Intuit, tried to avoid raising capital from friends and family. But 25 failed pitches to professional investors later, he gave... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

liquidated. Did Steve really want to put himself through what was needed to fix this company? At one point, he phoned Intel’s Andy Grove at two o’clock in the morning and walked him through the pros and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

or in other more mature markets? In the book we discuss at length how companies adapt to these missing institutions. We also describe different kinds of institutional voids and give many examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa

By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
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  • January 2025
  • Supplement

The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Pre-abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • January 2025
  • Case

The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Pre-abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton
Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details
Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory View Details
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

New research sheds light on implications of using politically correct and incorrect speech and identifies five techniques to increase persuasiveness and diffuse conflict.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

weren’t quite ready to give up their mansions yet. How did luxury apartment buildings come to define New York’s skyline and power structure? By 1900, you saw the super affluent moving into apartment... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

and not those of third parties. Michael Porter points out that when social activities lack a strategic dimension, Milton Friedman's well-known criticism that philanthropy has no place in business, suddenly... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

with voters across the United States. What she has learned will surprise you, enlighten you, give you hope, and change the way you think about your fellow Americans. Our inability to hear each other, our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information