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  • 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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  • October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

NYC311

By: Constantine E. Kontokosta, Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Gulick
Joe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the mayor’s deputies: “Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?” Founded... View Details
Keywords: New York City; NYC; 311; NYC311; Big Data; Equal Access; Bias; Data Analysis; Public Entrepreneurship; Urban Informatics; Predictive Analytics; Chief Data Officer; Data Analytics; Cities; City Leadership; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; City; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 18 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification

Keywords: by Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz & Michael W. Toffel

    Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island

    In a heating transformation study presented to Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo,... View Details

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring

    By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
    Performance monitoring is a mainstay management tool in most organizations. Yet we still know little about whether—and why—better monitoring yields better performance in practice. To shed light on these questions, we study the introduction of a performance monitoring... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Monitoring; Worker Skills; Skill Depreciation; Managerial Inattention; On-the-job Training; Productivity; Multitasking; Quick Serve Restaurants; Performance Evaluation; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Performance Productivity; Management; Information Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Puerto Rico
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    • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
    In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
    Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    shows how capitalism itself can be the best route to real solutions to many social problems. Michael Porter also led the development of the conceptual framework underlying the Social Progress Index,... View Details
    • 17 Jan 2023
    • In Practice

    8 Trends to Watch in 2023

    As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 02 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads

    Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & George Serafeim; Banking
    • Web

    Japan - Global

    Global Classroom: Student Immersion in Japan The Japan Immersive Field Course (IFC) was launched in 2012 in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Over the years, the program has evolved alongside the progress of... View Details
    • Web

    Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    problems in the health care industry. It has been stuck in outdated management practices and payment models that made the problem progressively worse over the past 50 years despite tremendous advances in medical science. While medical... View Details
    • Web

    U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S.... View Details
    • 01 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation

    By: Leonardo D’Amico, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
    We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970 shows... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Performance Productivity; Local Range; Construction Industry
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    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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    • 2017
    • Article

    Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care?

    By: Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein
    Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention, as well as what we call mental gaps resulting from wrong priors/worldviews, or relevant... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Consumer Behavior
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    • March 2008
    • Case

    Novartis AG: Science-Based Business

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
    Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in 2007. Pharmaceuticals account for slightly over $24B of that total. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

      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
      • 26 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

      time has come to produce a wide-ranging book about current research on digital strategy. Simultaneously, the inception of the digital age, with all its multiple remarkable fallouts, contributes to making the received body of strategy theories and tools (Andrews, 1971;... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
      • Web

      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      jobs, and people applied for them. For many of us, however, the pandemic has brought back into focus the critical job we “hire” employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that View Details