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  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also earned... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

  Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Awarded the 2019 Warren Bennis Prize for the best 2018 Harvard Business Review article on leadership for his article with Aaron Chatterji, "The New CEO Activists" (January–February 2018). Feng Zhu : Winner of the 2019 Best Conference... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

for the unique requirements of low-income urban and rural communities through conducting needs assessments for various customer segments, like street vendors, midwives, and farmers. Through experimentation and customer feedback, they have... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

stumbled across the Firm’s Sustainability Practice during my rotation in New York, and it was “love at first sight” – I realized that climate change has become top of mind for many business leaders, and climate-related projects cover some... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

constrained agency through which a particular network action is taken can affect actors' ensuing structural positions and the nature of the constraints they subsequently face. Our conceptualization of constrained agency identifies new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

others. For our empirical analyses, we use 10 years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that individuals learn more from their own successes than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism that the literature focuses on), unravelling is more likely to occur when participants have more similar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

Coca-Cola Company, The Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative, and PepsiCo. The case concludes by positing questions the ORP would face moving forward such as incentives, metrics, restructuring to serve the private sector, and mechanisms for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

the predictive value of a theory can be measured in terms of how many pairs of experimental subjects you would have to observe playing a previously unexamined game before the mean of the experimental observations would provide a better prediction than the theory about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

a level playing field with big business that can spend millions, perhaps billions, to launch a new product or service." Others set forth reasons for inequities in international competition and how they might be rectified. Andy Forbis... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

312-002 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne