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  • July 2006 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.

By: Dennis Campbell and Donglin Xia
Chairman Yin Jiaxu must communicate that the company's extraordinary reported performance in 2002 reflects Changan's unique strategy within the competitive dynamics of China's automobile industry. Changan's 2002 annual report demonstrated an extraordinary level of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Media; Business and Shareholder Relations; Auto Industry; China
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
This paper studies a novel, light-touch approach to aggregate judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and... View Details
Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • April 2006
  • Case

Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 20 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job

specifically related to how that will impact the imperatives for your new role. What you share and when will be up to your discretion. Unless you have significant concerns about the finding, best practice has been to share an anonymized... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

believed you could praise people to success.” Bill Wilson: Eliminate ego Bill Wilson isn’t a household name in business circles—and that’s intentional. The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous was adamant that successful organizations need a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

windfall of money that they could use to purchase a goody-bag full of candy or other treats. Participants were randomly assigned to be given the choice to keep the bag of treats for themselves or to donate it to an anonymous sick child at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg
  • November, 2016
  • Article

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca
Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender
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  • Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

leadership 28 AUG 2024 | Managing the Future of Work The noted executive coach on the value of letting go of the past, taking candid and anonymous 360-degree feedback, and playing it forward. Also, spreading the word via a generative AI... View Details
  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

please visit this Student Financial Aid page . All fund information is current as of the date the fund was established. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # A Aberdeen Newton Fellowship The Aberdeen Newton Fellowship was established through the... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

correctly and shaping one’s response to it optimally. The maxim of Epictetus, “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens,” has similarities to both Buddhist doctrine and the Alcoholics View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

prove that it owned the debt in the first place. So judges nationwide have tossed out these collection lawsuits and have canceled the debts of thousands of borrowers. From these court battles, the researchers were able to identify borrowers, and the credit bureau... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

individual anonymized career trajectories, implied by job titles and income, with far more specificity than previously available, Kerr notes. State Department data suggest that from 1989 to 1995, two-thirds of immigrants from Vietnam were... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Resource Management; HBS doctoral candidate Evan DeFilippis; New York University doctoral student Stephen Michael Impink; and former HBS research associate Madison Singell—studied aggregated, anonymous emails and meeting invitations of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

October 2023, news broke that filming of the book would begin in fall 2024, backed by Anonymous Content, the US production company behind Spotlight and The Revenant, and Korea’s Anthology Studios. Deeply personal and highly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
  • Web

Pre-Class Arrival - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

class. The additional time also strengthens the relationship with students. It sends a powerful signal that the instructor truly cares for the students as individuals, not anonymous members of the class. Talking informally with... View Details
  • Web

Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

by artists Adriana Varella and Nilton Maltz. Originally commissioned by the city of Palo Alto in the early 2000’s, it is now on loan to Harvard Business School through the generosity of an anonymous donor through 2023. Adriana Varella and... View Details