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    Rebecca A. Karp

    Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and... View Details

    • 19 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices

    Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Shwetha Mariadassou, and Yanchong Zheng
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    Site Credits - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core... View Details
    • June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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    Ducati Corse

    By: Francesca Gino and Andrew P. McAfee
    Ducati Corse, the racing arm of Ducati Motorcycles, has entered the Moto GP circuit with a completely new bike. This bike was designed and tested using a great deal of information technology. After a very successful initial season, the Ducati Moto GP team sees... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Change Management; Research and Development; Motorcycle Industry; Italy
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    • January 1996
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    Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent

    By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
    CompuServe, an online services vendor, informs its software developers that they must enter into a licensing agreement to use the popular GIF compression. CompuServe claims that it is forced to do so because Unisys is enforcing its patent rights in this area. Others... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Web Services Industry
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    • 2011
    • Case

    How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?

    By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jim Snabe
    Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Information; Service Delivery; Decision Making; Crisis Management
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    • 05 Jun 2019
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

    completed an Independent Project under the guidance of a professor.   In recent years, the beauty industry has fundamentally changed – incumbents are being disrupted by direct-to-consumer brands, customer data is being View Details
    • 17 Oct 2019
    • News

    A New Small Business Tech Ecosystem is Emerging

    • August 2020
    • Article

    Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
    Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
    Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • 05 Jun 2019
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    Why cities and national governments clash over migration

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Valuing Stocks With Earnings

    By: Sebastian Hillenbrand and Odhrain McCarthy
    We show that commonly used aggregate earnings are several times as volatile as stock prices over the last three decades. Movements in the price-earnings ratio are thus entirely explained by earnings growth and unrelated to future returns. As an alternative to the... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Investment Portfolio; Stocks; Behavioral Finance; Accounting
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    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 22 May 2025
    • Virtual Programming

    Networking Isn't Guesswork-It's Science

    If you are one of the many people who dread networking, find it awkward, or maybe just want to network smarter, join us for this interactive HBS alumni networking workshop. We will discuss the benefits of applying the scientific method to networking. This framework ... View Details
    • 20 Jun 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Conversational Peers and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
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    Control in Inter-organizational Settings

    By: V.G. Narayanan
    Professor Narayanan is studying how franchise owners use measurement tools such as the Balanced Scorecard and mystery shopper survyes to mitigate incentive and information frictions that arise between franchisors and franchisees. He is also studying control issues that... View Details
    • July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
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    Symantec--1982-90

    By: Nitin Nohria
    As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Communication Technology; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

    HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research View Details
    • 01 Jun 2012
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    Faculty Books

    groups don’t learn naturally—because of interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding—Edmondson shows how to overcome these barriers.... View Details
    Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance
    • October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
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    Texas Eastman Co.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The company as part of a commitment to Total Quality Management has installed a computer system that accumulates 30,000 observations on its processes every 2-4 hours. Operating people have found the monthly summaries of financial performance not too useful in this... View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Information Technology; Reports; Business or Company Management
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect

    By: Aaron Yoon
    I study firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. Using the announcement of a regulation that allowed foreigners to invest in select Shanghai... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Trust
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    By: John A. Deighton
    Professor Deighton conducts research at the intersection of information technology and marketing. He is interested in the complementary uses of human and artificial intelligence and creativity in areas such as advertising, content creation, and online retailing. He... View Details