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23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship” It’s well documented that women are underrepresented in the executive suite. For instance, women have comprised nearly 50 percent of entry-level public accountants for more than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Case No. 923-005. September 2023 Administrative Science Quarterly (Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment By: Summer R. Jackson In a 20-month ethnographic... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Effective management and leadership often depend on the capacity to envision and bring about sustainable agreements among these parties. This is true with respect to discrete transactions such as mergers, labor contracts, and out-of-court... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of Ronald Coase on the significance of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the firm and... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

was focused on what we call today innovation platforms. With the emergence of Amazon, eBay, and other firms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was clear that a very different kind of technology platform was emerging, which we call View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Alibaba's Taobao (A)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie M. Wulf

This case examines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Demand and Consumers; Market Transactions; Service Operations; Diversification; Internet and the Web; China

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04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

positioned to tackle the challenges that come with building a company. During my conversation with Stacey Boyd I learned about the importance of storytelling. Olivela is a luxury brand that embodies philanthropy through every transaction... View Details

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

enable it to enhance its overall impact. Through all of this, you, as a fundraiser, are transforming the donor organizational relationship from a transactional one to a relational one, which hopefully will endure, reshaping itself... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

of little more than a picture and the name of a guest. This was a different choice architecture than in earlier platforms like Priceline, where transactions were more automated. We were worried that Airbnb’s strategy could give rise to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

prospective guests. Airbnb could consider preventing guests from knowing the hosts’ race, possibly by masking their profile photos until transactions are completed, the researchers say. That could backfire if guests make stereotyped... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

says, "which we view as a triangle" representing cutting working capital, reducing transaction costs, and providing world-class customer service. Balancing these competing priorities means that it's impossible to eliminate risk... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

monitored fully. We thus rely on these individuals' professionalism and honor (or "enlightened self interest") to carry out their occupations. Across organizations, in the marketplace, factors like brand reputation and warranties help facilitate View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

don’t have the same transaction fees, which could allow someone buying a cup of coffee to leave a tip for the coffee farmers at the same time they leave one for the barista. Approximately 80 percent of American diners tip restaurant... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

the experience at Airbnb provides an important lesson for other businesses with similar web platforms. Companies should be reviewing their web design and building in more anonymity. If it’s necessary to provide identifying information of users, he suggests waiting... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

and password. Educational Information such as student identification number, courses taken and currently registered for, course progress, and course grade. Employment Information such as your job title and employer. Transactional... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES Syrup works by integrating a retailer’s data—historical and real-time transactions and inventory, e-commerce patterns, and marketing and promotion plans, among other things—with weather, search,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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