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  • 15 Mar 2015
  • News

Business in the time of social media

    The Socioeconomic Impact of Internet Tracking

    At a time when the future of cookies in ad tracking is in doubt, this report contributes to understanding online tracking and its positive and negative consequences, both economic and social. We describe how tracking works to circulate data and affect privacy, how data... View Details
    • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    Citigroup 2003: Testing the Limits of Convergence (A)

    By: Lynda M. Applegate
    Examines Citigroup's strategic transition and highlights issues that its newly announced CEO Charles Prince will face as he assumes leadership of this global financial corporation upon the retirement of its charismatic CEO, Sandy Weill. View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Succession; Transformation; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 28 Feb 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Kartik Hosanagar, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    • 13 Dec 2015
    • News

    The Truest Measure of America's Progress

    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters

    By: Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker
    Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of government preparedness and response greatly determines the extent of suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Natural Disasters; Welfare or Wellbeing
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    • September 1999
    • Case

    Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Sarah S. Khetani
    Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design services industry. After 20 years of building a company that is truly a reflection of her own personality, Wilson... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Innovation and Management; Management; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Service Industry; Texas
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    The Location Component of Pricing Strategies

    By: David E. Bell
    David E. Bell is examining retail pricing strategies in the context of location. He finds that customers' willingness to visit a particular store depends on their price expectations, the likelihood that a suitable item will be in stock, and the store's proximity to... View Details
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 Apr 2018
    • Webinars: Career

    The Challenge of Negotiating Inside Your Company

    Our toughest negotiations often arent those with outside parties. Instead they are with our boss, our colleaguesand sometimes even people who report to us. Drawing on his recently launched HBX Negotiation Mastery course, Professor Wheeler will present strategies for... View Details
    • 27 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

    Every month, another leader creates an onslaught of media coverage for being dishonest. Have we lost sight of the importance of leaders with integrity? Why do failed leaders... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • Research Summary

    Thin Slices of Groups [Under Review]

    In this paper with Jeff Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Miloslavsky, we extend research on “thin slices” by testing and determining that perceivers are able to accurately judge the effectiveness of small, task-performing groups... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Management Control Issues of International Ventures

    William J. Bruns, Jr. is conducting (with Sharon M. McKinnon of Northeastern University) a field study of control issues that arise in international ventures between U.S. and European companies. Bruns' research is aimed at answering questions raised by earlier... View Details
    • 15 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

    trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson
    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    Choice Amnesia: Motivated Forgetting of Difficult Choices

    Imagine having to choose between your two favorite flavors of ice cream, chocolate and mint chip. Previous work suggests that whichever option you pick (say, chocolate) will become even more appealing after your decision, and the rejected option (mint chip) will get... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

    clear desire; the leaders are courageous enough to take action; they recognize there is messiness in doing it right; and they are okay with errors they and others will be making along the way. The number of... View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

      The Psychosocial Value of Employment

      In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
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      Real Effects of Relational Contracts

      By: Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Rebecca Henderson and Andrea Pratt
      How important are factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors such... View Details
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      Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

      thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that View Details
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      Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

      Summary Advancing Women of Color in Leadership reflects our belief in inclusion—supporting efforts to increase access to equal opportunity in organizations because it is the right thing to do. Demographic diversity also helps... View Details