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  • February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Voting; Race; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Leadership; History; Alabama
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  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

useful and saleable by-product. The term "by-product synergy" (BPS) has been coined to describe this practice. By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces its waste disposal cost and potentially increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
    • 19 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19

    making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    Leaders by Avery Forman 08 Nov 2024 | HBS Case How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber 08 Nov 2024 | Op-Ed Have You Had Enough? by James... View Details
    • 11 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 11, 2006

    hair care. By 1980 there remained strong differences between consumer markets. Although American influence was strong, it was already evident that globalization had not resulted in the creation of a stereotyped American blond and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Oct 2015
    • First Look

    October 6, 2015

    and challenges created by digital technology and describe some of the most pressing policy issues. As digital technologies continue to gain in momentum and importance, it has become clear that digitization has features that do not fit... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 29

    Kids Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 811-042 In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8

    investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 27 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 27

    ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Sep 2008
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    First Look: September 16, 2008

    platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested View Details
    • October 2020 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    The Walt Disney Company: The 21st Century Fox Acquisition and Digital Distribution

    By: David J. Collis
    This case describes the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company and the subsequent launch by Disney of three streaming channels to compete with Netflix. View Details
    Keywords: Disney; Streaming; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 05 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

    Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025). Optimal Illiquidity By: John Beshears , James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in... View Details

      Democracy

      To all who declare that American democracy is broken—riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth—history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation’s founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is... View Details

      • 11 Jun 2021
      • Blog Post

      Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms

      holds some key Harvard Business School specialized knowledge: Nearly 15 years ago, Creary was an HBS research associate, writing cases for Professor David Thomas (now president of Morehouse College) and working with other faculty around... View Details

        Howard H. Stevenson

        Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

        Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
        • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 May 2016
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        Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

        In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving... View Details