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  • October 2012
  • Teaching Note

Liberia (TN)

By: Eric Werker and Ian Cornell
From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Economic Systems; War; Economy; Government and Politics; Liberia
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  • December 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Lorin A. Fries
Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Value Creation; Quality; Supply Chain Management; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Case: Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)

    Aptiv's board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company's efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready autonomous driving system. While many commentators believed that Aptiv's self-driving technologies... View Details

      Max H. Bazerman

      Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
      Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals
      • December 1998
      • Case

      Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
      The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa
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      Alumni

      wanted to leave behind her agricultural roots. Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. How to Judge Your Next Job Michael Horn (MBA 2006) View Details

        Michael I. Norton

        Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; consumer products; e-commerce industry; marketing industry; nonprofit industry

          (Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment

          In a 20-month ethnographic study, I examine how a technology firm, ShopCo (a pseudonym), considered 13 different recruitment platforms to attract racial minority engineering candidates. I find that when choosing whether to adopt recruitment platforms focused on racial... View Details

            Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

            The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.... View Details

            • 07 Aug 2007
            • First Look

            First Look: August 7, 2007

              Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 13 Jan 2009
            • First Look

            First Look: January 13, 2009

              Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
            • Case

            Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy

            By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
            PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After... View Details
            Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Project Finance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Leasing
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            • 2012
            • Working Paper

            The Cost of Friendship

            By: Paul A. Gompers, Yuhai Xuan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
            This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction... View Details
            Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Performance; Personal Characteristics
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            • 2003
            • Case

            Lakhdar Brahimi / Negotiating a New Government for Afghanistan

            By: James K. Sebenius and Kristin Schneeman

            Part of the PON Great Negotiator Case Study Series, this factual case study examines former UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's involvement in negotiating an interim Afghani government after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. As a result of these efforts, Brahimi... View Details

            Keywords: Contemporary History; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Leadership Style; Cognition and Thinking; Conferences; Afghanistan
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            • 14 Jun 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

            all races benefited). Normalize opportunities to learn from mistakes Edmondson refers to them as “learning behaviors.” It might be as simple as organizing a team meeting to understand why something went wrong View Details
            Keywords: by Kara Baskin
            • January 31, 2019
            • Article

            The Backlash to Larry Fink's Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

            By: Mark R. Kramer
            Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his company would change its hiring and potentially its compensation structure to advance diversity and ensure that... View Details
            Keywords: Diversity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose
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            • Research Summary

            Overview

            My main topics of interest in research all center around Africa. It is my ambition to take HBS more into Africa and to bring Africa more into HBS. I am particularly interested in a) the building of businesses in Africa. I want to focus on those elements that an HBS MBA... View Details
            • July 2024
            • Article

            Mass General Brigham’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System: A Decade of Learnings

            By: Jason B. Liu, Robert S. Kaplan, David W. Bates, Mario O. Edelen, Rachel C. Sisodia and Andrea L. Pusic
            This article describes the strategies that leaders at the Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system have used in launching a standardized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) collection program in 2012, a major step in the value-based transformation of health care.... View Details
            Keywords: Patient-reported Outcomes; Value Based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Outcome or Result; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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            • February 2023 (Revised July 2023)
            • Case

            Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?

            By: Ryan Raffaelli, Alexandra C. Feldberg and Sarah Gulick
            The Italy-based Moleskine Foundation worked with young adults in Africa and Europe to inspire social change through art and creative projects. Adama Sanneh, the newly appointed CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, faced several challenges: First, he had to make his own... View Details
            Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Identity; Strategy; Education Industry; Italy; Africa; Europe; United States
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            • 04 Aug 2009
            • First Look

            First Look: August 4

            transformation--in less than a decade--into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six core... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace