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  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 2020
  • Article

Worry at Work: How Organizational Culture Promotes Anxiety

By: Jeremy A. Yip, Emma E. Levine, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E. Schweitzer
Organizational culture profoundly influences how employees think and behave. Established research suggests that the content, intensity, consensus, and fit of cultural norms act as a social control system for attitudes and behavior. We adopt the norms model of... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Norms; Stress; Culture; Tightness-looseness; Curvilinear; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Performance
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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions

    We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that... View Details

      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • Spring 2019
      • Article

      Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations

      By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
      To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the... View Details
      Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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        The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

        What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this short book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as... View Details

        • Web

        PhD Programs - Doctoral

        the effects that groups have on individuals. Students in the macro track use sociological methods to examine organizations, groups, and markets as a whole, including topics such as the influence of individuals on organizational change, or the relationship between View Details
        • May 2020
        • Article

        Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

        By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
        Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
        Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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        Faculty & Research

        Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025). Optimal Illiquidity By: John Beshears , James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in... View Details
        • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        NerveWire, Inc.

        By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
        NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
        Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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        • 2024
        • Report

        The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy

        By: Suraj Srinivasan, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat and Vaishnavee Ananth
        Since the proliferation of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s, digital has captured an increasingly large portion of the economy. In this Capgemini Research Institute report, The Eco-Digital EraTM: The dual transition to a sustainable and... View Details
        Keywords: Technology Adoption; Digital Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Trends
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        • 2011
        • Working Paper

        Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

        By: Andrei Hagiu
        This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality... View Details
        Keywords: Multi-sided Platforms; Exclusion; Quality And Quantity; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Network Effects; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy
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        • 02 Nov 2017
        • Cold Call Podcast

        Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?

        Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Health
        • Forthcoming
        • Article

        The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement

        By: Lauren Cohen and Bo Li
        Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions against foreign firms increases significantly preceding senatorial elections,... View Details
        Keywords: Bribery; Regulatory Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Political Elections; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; Geographic Location
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        • December 2004
        • Article

        Market Valuation and Merger Waves

        By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
        Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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        • April 2009 (Revised November 2012)
        • Case

        Sermo, Inc.

        By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lars Peter Christian Nielsen
        Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and to discuss these concerns, as well as challenges with managing their practices.... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Knowledge Sharing; Two-Sided Platforms; Conflict and Resolution; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States
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        • 14 Mar 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, March 14

        QE announcements in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52332 March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review What's the Value of a Like? Social Media Endorsements... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Web

        HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

        three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly incarcerated, as well as lessons for other entrepreneurs. 12... View Details
        • January 2018
        • Article

        Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

        By: Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca and Nikhil Naik
        New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for... View Details
        Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Urban Scope; City
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