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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

southeast campus. The auditorium was a gift to HBS from Florence Vanderbilt Twombly Burden and her sons, William A.M. Burden (AB 1927) and Shirley Carter Burden. The hall was named in honor of Florence’s late husband, William A.M. Burden... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • April 1998
  • Case

Jim Lyons and GenRad

Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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Skydeck - Alumni

1997) on what modern parents really want from their workplace What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street” Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) shares personal anecdotes and life lessons from his collaboration with the late finance icon Byron... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

speed and service quality compared to competitors that relied on third-party drivers. By late 2024, however, the competitive landscape was shifting. Rivals were closing the quality gap, and deep-pocketed international player Meituan had... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued an apology. Learning from Google’s mistakes The takeaways from Gebru’s story are hardly singular to Google as Big Tech scrambles to build ever-larger AI data sets with seemingly few restraints or safeguards, Neeley says. And... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

subsidiaries to support its core focus on food delivery. The most prominent of these was Logi, its in-house logistics arm, which gave Jahez greater control over delivery speed and service quality compared to competitors that relied on third-party drivers. By View Details
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • 2023
  • Article

Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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  • February 2025
  • Article

Improving Customer Compatibility with Tradeoff Transparency

By: Ryan W. Buell and MoonSoo Choi
Through a large-scale field experiment with 393,036 customers considering opening a credit card account with a nationwide retail bank, we investigate how providing transparency into an offering’s tradeoffs affects subsequent rates of customer acquisition and long-run... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Customer Selection; Customer Compatibility; Retention; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Banking Industry; Australia
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

State-Formation, Statist Islam, and Regime Instability: Evidence from Turkey

By: Kristin Fabbe
Religion, and particularly the forces of political Islam and state secularism, have been central to discussions of regime stability in the Turkish case. Intense polarization, political instability, and military interventions have propelled Turkey into crisis about once... View Details
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; Regime; State Secularism; Political Islam; Democracy; Autocracy; Religion; Government and Politics; Turkey
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  • January 2021
  • Article

How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19

By: Friedrich M. Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon M. Jachimowicz
The spread of COVID-19 within any given country or community at the onset of the pandemic depended in part on the sheltering-in-place rate of its citizens. The pandemic led us to revisit one of psychology’s most fundamental and most basic questions in a high-stakes... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Pandemic; Shelter-in-place; Personality; Government; Interactionism; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Policy; Governance Compliance
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Returning to the Roots

It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

"roughly 20 percent higher productivity than both" the other groups, the study said. And for some employees who had more experience, the boost in productivity was much higher. Moreover, the gift group maintained better focus throughout the work, and performed... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
  • Web

A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

the panics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baker’s business acumen extended to serving on the boards of more than forty corporations, including several failing railroads, that he bought and revitalized. He also had... View Details
  • May 2012 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

McKesson

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010 revenues, just made its first foray into... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Organizational Transformations; Health Services; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Service Operations; Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
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Harshini Chengareddty

only child, but the time I got to spend running around exploring with my friends, making s’mores by the campfire, and staying up late telling stories was a highlight of my childhood. What is the best thing about your home town? All the... View Details
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Activist Pressure (A) By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer June 2025 | Case | Faculty Research On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

with top-flight amenities? “Trust me, it’s cheaper.” Is it easier to repurpose a vacant department store than build something from the ground up and fill it with top-flight amenities? “Trust me, it’s cheaper.” Matt Gordon remembers the phone call from his friend Brian... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

allocated the cost of their trains over time, but Rosenthal notes that slave owners were doing this before then. Starting in the late 1840s, Thomas Affleck's account books instructed planters to record depreciation or appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston