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- 24 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)
about their loan repayment journeys. Les Williams Class: MBA 2005 Industry: Impact Investing Recipient of the 2020 Best King Award for Service Could you please share a little bit about your upbringing and background? I grew up pretty... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers
- 09 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism
- February 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Alexandra C. Feldberg and Sarah Gulick
The Italy-based Moleskine Foundation worked with young adults in Africa and Europe to inspire social change through art and creative projects. Adama Sanneh, the newly appointed CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, faced several challenges: First, he had to make his own... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Identity; Strategy; Education Industry; Italy; Africa; Europe; United States
Raffaelli, Ryan, Alexandra C. Feldberg, and Sarah Gulick. "Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?" Harvard Business School Case 423-043, February 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- 2016
- Article
Penalized Fast Subset Scanning
By: Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present the penalized fast subset scan (PFSS), a new and general framework for scalable and accurate pattern detection. PFSS enables exact and efficient identification of the most anomalous subsets of the data, as measured by a likelihood ratio scan statistic.... View Details
Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Likelihood Ratio Statistic; Pattern Detection; Scan Statistic; Mathematical Methods
Speakman, Skyler, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Penalized Fast Subset Scanning." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 25, no. 2 (2016): 382–404. (Selected for “Best of JCGS” invited session by the journal’s editor in chief.)
- May 19, 2021
- Article
Measuring the Impact of #MeToo on Gender Equity in Hollywood
By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
The #MeToo movement has brought issues of sexual harassment and gender inequities to the forefront around the world. But how much of a tangible impact has it had on the experiences of women in the workplace? In this piece, the authors discuss their research that... View Details
Keywords: #MeToo Movement; Gender Equity; Creative Industries; Impact; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Film Entertainment; Social Issues
Luo, Hong, and Laurina Zhang. "Measuring the Impact of #MeToo on Gender Equity in Hollywood." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 19, 2021).
- Article
Everybody Else Is Doing It: Exploring Social Transmission of Lying Behavior
By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Daniel Houser and Dan Ariely
Lying is a common occurrence in social interactions, but what predicts whether an individual will tell a lie? While previous studies have focused on personality factors, here we asked whether lying tendencies might be transmitted through social networks. Using an... View Details
Mann, Heather E., Ximena Garcia-Rada, Daniel Houser, and Dan Ariely. "Everybody Else Is Doing It: Exploring Social Transmission of Lying Behavior." PLoS ONE 9, no. 10 (October 2014).
- Summer 2014
- Article
Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority
By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
This paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Adaptation
McElheran, Kristina Steffenson. "Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 23, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 225–258.
- April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)
By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)." Harvard Business School Case 108-024, April 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
Institution," he says. Harvard University was also the beneficiary of Daniel's wisdom and experience for fifteen years. In 1989, shortly after completing his final term as managing partner, he was named Harvard's treasurer by President... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
School. A number of issues, however, can block employees from benefitting from their more successful peers. For example, an employee might not recognize themselves as underperforming, so don’t seek help. Or,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network
By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.
Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding
Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser. "The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-010, August 2014.
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
in order for compensation to be effective, you need to create a compensation package in a way that facilitates an alignment between the goals of the executive and the specific goals of the corporation,” Gallani explains. But when Gallani... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
The Ritual Effect
practice them. KEY THEMES He suggests that rituals are not only surprisingly pervasive and highly effective, they are also immensely versatile. Remarkably, rituals seem to work by helping us exactly wherever we need help most. From... View Details
Keywords: rituals
- Web
Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Tommaso Ruggeri
memory? As a kid, I loved dinosaurs! I had a whole collection of dinosaur toys, and my favorite thing was go to my grandma's house and play with them for hours. I used to meticulously line them all up with my mom, based on their actual... View Details
- October–December 2022
- Article
Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem
By: Mochen Yang, Edward McFowland III, Gordon Burtch and Gediminas Adomavicius
Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data, followed... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Econometric Analysis; Instrumental Variable; Random Forest; Causal Inference; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction
Yang, Mochen, Edward McFowland III, Gordon Burtch, and Gediminas Adomavicius. "Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem." INFORMS Journal on Data Science 1, no. 2 (October–December 2022): 138–155.