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- September 2012
- Article
The Bedside Manner of Homo Economicus: How and Why Priming an Economic Schema Reduces Compassion
By: Andrew Molinsky, Adam M. Grant and Joshua D. Margolis
We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in need when delivering bad news. Across three experiments, we show that unobtrusively priming economic schemas decreases the compassion that...
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Molinsky, Andrew, Adam M. Grant, and Joshua D. Margolis. "The Bedside Manner of Homo Economicus: How and Why Priming an Economic Schema Reduces Compassion." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 119, no. 1 (September 2012): 27–37.
- 30 Aug 2012
- Other Presentation
New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value
The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012).
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Porter, Michael E. "New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value." Discovery Invest Leadership Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 30, 2012.
- August 2012 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Colorscope, Inc. (Abridged)
By: V.G. Narayanan
A small company in the graphic design business faces severe price competition. The company must respond by cutting costs and making process improvements.
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Price;
Business Processes;
Performance Improvement;
Competition;
Fine Arts Industry
Narayanan, V.G. "Colorscope, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 113-025, August 2012. (Revised November 2012.)
- 2 Aug 2012
- Other Presentation
The Role of Business in Social and Economic Development: Creating Shared Value
he ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012).
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Porter, Michael E. "The Role of Business in Social and Economic Development: Creating Shared Value." World Bank, Washington, DC, August 2, 2012.
- 2012
- Working Paper
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises
By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects....
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Keywords:
Social Norms;
Social Networks;
Triadic Closure;
Social Groups;
Group Identity;
Groups and Teams;
Identity;
Performance Consistency;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Societal Protocols;
Social Media
Gibbons, Robert, and Rebecca Henderson. "What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-020, August 2012.
- 19 Jul 2012
- Other Presentation
New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value." Hitachi Innovation Forum, Boston, MA, United States, July 19, 2012.
- July 2012
- Supplement
Generation Investment Management, Video
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide...
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Keywords:
Leadership And Managing People;
Accountability;
Investment Management;
Social Issues;
Investment;
Corporate Accountability;
Ethics;
Development Economics;
Natural Environment;
Financial Services Industry;
Energy Industry
Sucher, Sandra J. "Generation Investment Management, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 612-704, July 2012.
- 12 Jul 2012
- Other Presentation
New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value." Mitsui HBS Global Management Program, Boston, MA, July 12, 2012.
- 12 Jul 2012
- Other Presentation
Transforming Strategy: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "Transforming Strategy: Creating Shared Value." AllWorld Summit@Harvard, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, July 12, 2012.
- July 2012
- Case
Generation Investment Management
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Energy Generation;
Investment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants;
Welfare;
Financial Services Industry;
India;
United Kingdom
Sucher, Sandra J., and Matthew Preble. "Generation Investment Management." Harvard Business School Case 613-002, July 2012.
- March–April 2012
- Article
The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure
By: Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch and Adam Tatarynowicz
This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both...
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Keywords:
Culture;
System;
Relationships;
Globalization;
Industry Clusters;
Information;
Networks;
Competitive Strategy;
Computer Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Maxim Sytch, and Adam Tatarynowicz. "The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure." Organization Science 23, no. 2 (March–April 2012): 449–471.
- June 2012
- Article
Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications
By: Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers
We examine the pervasive endorsement of racial colorblindness-the belief that racial group membership should not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived...
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Apfelbaum, Evan P., Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers. "Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications." Current Directions in Psychological Science 21, no. 3 (June 2012): 205–209.
- 31 May 2012
- Other Presentation
Creating Shared Value: The Path Forward
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); On Competition (Harvard...
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Porter, Michael E. "Creating Shared Value: The Path Forward." Shared Value Leadership Summit, FSG, Boston, MA, May 31, 2012.
- 27 Apr 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business
This presentation was prepared with the assistance of Professors Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Niels Ketelhohn. The author is grateful for their important contribution to this research.
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Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business." Sintonía, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, April 27, 2012.
- 26 Apr 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business
Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation at "Encuentro de Comisiones Regionales de Competitividad," Bogotá
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Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business." Encuentro de Comisiones Regionales de Competitividad, Bogotá, Colombia, April 26, 2012.
- 25 Apr 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business
Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation at Expogestión, Baranquilla
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Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business." Expogestión, Barranquilla, Colombia, April 25, 2012.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving...
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Keywords:
Urban Development;
Policy;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Geographic Location;
Education;
Infrastructure;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-090, April 2012.
- April 2012
- Article
Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures
By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods;
Customers;
Social Issues;
Outcome or Result;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Competition;
Banks and Banking;
Policy;
Personal Characteristics;
Credit;
Employment;
United States
Campbell, Dennis, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, and Peter Tufano. "Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures." Journal of Banking & Finance 36, no. 4 (April 2012): 1224–1235.
- April 2012
- Article
Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs
By: Nitin Nohria
The author offers opinions on technological innovations and innovations in business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into...
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Nohria, Nitin. "Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
- 2012
- Working Paper
Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It
By: Kash Rangan, Lisa Chase and Sohel Karim
The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that contrasts sharply with the prevailing Shared Value framework offered by Porter and Kramer (HBR; Jan.-Feb. 2011). We assert that, despite...
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Corporate Strategy;
Values and Beliefs;
Profit;
Practice
Rangan, Kash, Lisa Chase, and Sohel Karim. "Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-088, April 2012.