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  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Backlash to Arbitration: Three Causes

By: Louis T. Wells

There are at least three reasons for the current backlash among developing countries against the international regime that governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Conflict Management
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  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

platforms and crypto products. In the early days of the internet, a lot of the platforms and business models didn’t survive. What I’m really interested to see is which crypto projects come out of this “bear”... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

work to relax and enjoy the small, affordable luxury of a special coffee beverage seemed to resonate with the social and economic moment, she recalls. Six months later she met Howard Schultz, an entrepreneur who acquired the company in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907414 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud

By: Michael Luca and Georgios Zervas
Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision-making. Yet, the credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. We investigate the economic incentives to commit... View Details
Keywords: Information; Competition; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Buy Big, Sell Small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 26 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap? Assessing the Strength of Network Effects in Social Network Platforms Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

(MBA 2025) shares personal anecdotes and life lessons from his collaboration with the late finance icon Byron Wien (MBA 1956) Joy to the World How Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) , CEO of East Boston Social Centers, is making joy a... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2023
  • News

Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Appoints Alumna as President

world, partnering with nearly 200 organizations. “We are at an inflection point where the rise in antisemitism and hate must be checked,” Levine noted in the press release about her appointment. “Robert Kraft and FCAS have created a rare View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
  • 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Nutritional Information; Obesity; Weight Loss; App Development; Business Startups; Nutrition; Health; Information; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry
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  • July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Two-Sided Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

day. An abbreviation of “demonstrating diagnostics,” DemDx is a software platform with embedded AI technology that guides health care providers through all the necessary questions in a patient examination to speed the patient onto the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

Careers Nonprofit Board Service Careers Nonprofit Board Service Nonprofit board service is an exceptional way for HBS alumni to meaningfully contribute to communities and issues that are meaningful. HBS Career & Professional Development and the View Details
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

to the complementary assets of the incumbent. At the same time, value creation presents opportunities for value capture by either party, where value capture by the start-up is determined by their knowledge appropriation regime and social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's influential study of View Details