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  • November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
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  • December 2003
  • Case

Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.

Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

give at all. “In some designs where people were told to do a task and were told that their efforts were going to be donated to a specific charity, that did not feel as good as being given a choice about where or whether to contribute,”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

About the MBA/MPA-ID Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered,... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry
  • Program

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

champions" Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

in Africa, Asia, and Latin America throughout recent decades. Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Because AI is only half the answer, the Digital Data Design Institute’s (D^3) global leaders in... View Details
  • June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
  • Background Note

Market Efficiency

By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zachary Page and Paul Passoni
Covers how prices react to information, the incentives for bringing information into prices, and the paradox of market efficiency in equilibrium--for investors to work hard keeping markets efficient, they must always be somewhat inefficient at the margin. Uses separate... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Price
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  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

  Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Are Experts Blinded by Feasibility?: Experimental Evidence from a NASA Robotics Challenge

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Zoe Szajnfarber, Jason Crusan, Michael Menietti and Karim R. Lakhani
Resource allocation decisions play a dominant role in shaping a firm’s technological trajectory and competitive advantage. Recent work indicates that innovative firms and scientific institutions tend to exhibit an anti-novelty bias when evaluating new projects and... View Details
Keywords: Evaluations; Novelty; Feasibility; Field Experiment; Resource Allocation; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Decision Making
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    Six Myths of Product Development

    Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details
    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    visitors each year." For the past six years, UCCA had worked with more than 100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Feb 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Sorting Out the Patent Craze

    different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
    • Career Coach

    Minal Mehta

    Amazon’s Product Ads Business. Minal is also an executive coach, specifically working with high achievers to design and build dream careers that are in alignment with who they are so they can approach life... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Technology
    • January 2024
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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    • 14 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    reviewing uniform, merchandise, and apparel designs. “No one questioned if he sat in on a meeting about pedestrian traffic for an upcoming football game, reviewed a working design of a commemorative poster... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports