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  • January 2013
  • Case

Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment

By: Michael Chu and Lauren Barley
Omidyar Network, having deployed to date over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to providing the rural unemployed and marginalized with livelihoods linked to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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    Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

    • Research Summary

    "How Social Networks Moderate Loss Aversion"

    The literature on consumers’ relationships with their brands emphasizes that, when people form relationships with brands that mirror their social relationships, the norms of social relationships are used as guiding principles in their interactions with... View Details
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments

    By: Daniel J. Benjamin, Don A. Moore and Matthew Rabin
    This paper describes results of a pair of incentivized experiments on biases in judgments about random samples. Consistent with the Law of Small Numbers (LSN), participants exaggerated the likelihood that short sequences and random subsets of coin flips would be... View Details
    Keywords: Probability; Economic Theory; Analysis; Incentives
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    • June 2010
    • Article

    Change for Change's Sake

    By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
    No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Creativity; Power and Influence; Adaptation
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    • 09 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 9, 2007

    crisis), they are relieved to find their superiors more tolerant of their questions and mistakes than they had expected. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701D What to Ask the Person in the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Working Paper

    Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

    By: Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew and Amitabh Chandra
    Rising list prices are often used to illustrate the burden of prescription drug spending, but payers routinely negotiate rebates from manufacturers that generate differences between list and net prices. List prices are easily available and affect patient cost-sharing,... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Rebates; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Price; Analysis; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 29 May 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Crafting Integrated Multichannel Retailing Strategies

    Keywords: by Jie Zhang, Paul Farris, Tarun Kushwaha, John Irvin, Thomas J. Steenburgh & Barton Weitz; Retail
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

    By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education
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    • 22 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

    explains. The second would engage in “business problem-solving tasks using quantitative data, customer and company interviews, and a persuasive writing component.” The experiments represent typical activities for consultants; some View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
    • August 15, 2014
    • Article

    Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

    By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
    This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
    Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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    • 16 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 16

    other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2020
    • Case

    HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

    By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
    Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
    Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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    • 23 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

    Empirically, they found that a thin jaw correlated negatively with CVP. Meanwhile, darker skin color has a positive correlation with celebrity visual potential, but mostly for white people. The results potentially mirror the deeply... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    more ‘going with the flow’ Smith and Cuscuna licked their wounds, took time off to reflect, and decided to open a new Brooklyn ice cream shop called the Social in 2021 that mirrored the values of Ample Hills—that is, fresh, homemade... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    be more rewarding. The book weaves in the stories of high-achieving musicians, philosophers, religious leaders, scientists, and Olympic athletes—some who gracefully jumped to the second curve and others who stumbled, and whose despair watching their glory days recede... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    emotion that's also appropriate for the one that you're actually feeling or or simply deciding to disregard your emotions, living in the living in the observational state as opposed to constantly looking in the mirrors around you making... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 29 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration

    Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    However, as much as possible, they recommend designing organizations to mirror the end-to-end experience of the customer so that employees solve problems "through the eyes of the customer." This structure tends to support an enterprise... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards