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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Professor Charles Wang Accounting & Management Professor Andy Wu Strategy Caleb Kwon Technology & Operations Management Professor Tiona Zuzul Strategy Professor Lumumba Seegars Organizational Behavior Professor Shunyuan Zhang Marketing Community View Details
  • 21 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

Keywords: by Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han & Sunil Gupta; Technology
  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

strategy is built around the value proposition, which is the demand side of the equation. But a robust strategy requires a tailored value chain—it's about the supply side as... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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  • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

Professor Higgins has written... View Details

  • October 1993
  • Case

Analyst's Dilemma (A), The

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Leveraged Buyouts; Conflict of Interests; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

a broader pool, researchers used machine learning, and turned to data firm Burning Glass Technologies, which sifts through tens of thousands of online job boards and company... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne

    Better, Not Perfect

    Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Max H. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek... View Details

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 2011
      • Article

      A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction

      By: Eyal Ert, Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth
      Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games: one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Game Theory; Fairness
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      • 16 May 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

      and bolts of how to create, build, and sustain effective relationships with like-minded organizations to better accomplish a social goal. Previous research with colleagues on growth suggested that growth does not necessarily translate... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • April 2005 (Revised August 2011)
      • Case

      Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's

      By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
      A five-member team from Berkshire Partners must recommend a final bid and financial structure for a leveraged buyout of William Carter Co., a leading producer of children's apparel. Investorcorp, a global investment group, has put the company up for auction. Goldman... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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      • 05 May 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

      "Typically, most economists would tend to assume that these prices would be passed on relatively quickly at the consumer level. That didn’t happen.” To gauge the effects of the tariffs since the Trump Administration first imposed... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • April 2011
      • Case

      Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!"

      By: James L. Heskett and Richard Luecke
      Porcini's Inc. operates a chain of 23 full-service restaurants located near shopping malls and downtown areas in the northeastern United States. Known for providing excellent service, Porcini's serves high-quality Italian cuisine made from fresh ingredients. Looking... View Details
      Keywords: Franchising; Syndication; Quantitative Analysis; Performance Measurement; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; Customer Value and Value Chain; Selection and Staffing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Franchise Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Northeastern United States
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      • January 2017 (Revised May 2019)
      • Case

      Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A)

      By: Doug J. Chung
      Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated... View Details
      Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Decision Making; Electronics Industry; Sweden
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      • August 2022
      • Case

      Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action

      By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen
      Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia
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      • June 2009 (Revised January 2011)
      • Case

      Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and James Weber
      After 15 years of great performance, Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Value; Retail Industry
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      • 15 Jul 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: July 15

      Working Papers Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements By: Schmidt, William, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—We examine how people make decisions when the value they derive from those decisions... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel