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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the MBA course “Risks, Opportunities,... View Details

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    • 10 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10, 2009

    b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809095 GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards Harvard Business School Case 509-004 In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    expert in agricultural remote sensing and climate adaptation. Dr. Whitcraft discusses her journey from co-founding NASA Harvest, a global program addressing food security with satellite data, to leading NASA Acres, which focuses on U.S.... View Details
    • 25 Sep 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

    operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    Pet Project

    simple-ingredient, raw-food diet. Spies couldn’t find such a thing in the pet aisle, so she started making it herself and quickly maxed out the freezer of her San Francisco kitchen with dog food. Within a month, George’s energy and health had rebounded. “He was like a... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
    • 10 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 10

      Publications February 2015 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Dynamic Pricing, Intertemporal Spillovers, and Efficiency

    By: Alexander J. MacKay, Dennis Svartbäck and Anders G. Ekholm
    Pricing technology that allows firms to rapidly adjust prices has two potential benefits. Time-varying prices can respond to high-frequency demand shocks to generate greater revenues, and they can also be used to smooth out demand to reduce costs. Using data... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Volatility
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    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    virtual interaction. It doesn't come from Zoom. It doesn't come from social media. It doesn't come from, you know, the warm feeling that you get on a dating app, on the contrary. Social media is the is the junk food of social life. And so... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • June 2017
    • Article

    Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim and Chia-Jung Tsay
    We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact... View Details
    Keywords: Operational Transparency; Service Management; Production Management; Organizational Performance; Behavioral Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Labor; Organizational Design; Operations; Service Industry; United States; Kenya
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    Adverse drug reactions pose distinct but potentially catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • December 2020
    • Article

    Unwanted Attention: Swiss Multinationals and the Creation of International Corporate Guidelines in the 1970s

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    During the last decade, we have seen an increased opposition to globalization. Within this wave of criticism, firms and more specifically multinational corporations have been major targets, accused of multiple wrongdoings, such as social dumping, fiscal evasion, job... View Details
    Keywords: Multinationals; Guidelines; Lobbying; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Global Range; Switzerland
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature

    By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
    Our understanding of the firm’s role in society has evolved greatly over the past 70 years, with more recent years seeing a sharp rise in interest for how firms can contribute more than profits to society – that is, have a purpose beyond profits. Businesses engaged in... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges
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    • December 2019
    • Article

    Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility

    By: Alfred Galichon, Scott Duke Kominers and Simon Weber
    We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching with imperfectly transferable utility and unobserved heterogeneity in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and... View Details
    Keywords: Sorting; Matching; Marriage Market; Intrahousehold Allocation; Imperfectly Transferable Utility; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work

    By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of... View Details
    Keywords: Gig Workers; Flexible Work Arrangements; Worker Welfare; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • Web

    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    2024 | Managing the Future of Work Melissa Werneck, EVP and global chief people officer for the multinational food and beverage firm, on reskilling for web marketing and personalization, AI, hybrid work, and collaboration across time... View Details
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    and portfolio committees. He has been in the private equity industry since earning his JD/MBA at HLS and HBS. Ellen is the director of marketing for Gong Cha Global, a bubble tea franchisor; she previously worked at Kraft Foods after... View Details
    • 18 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 18

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-095.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsMonsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World David E. Bell, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 510-025 Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 28, 2016

    employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

    Natalie Epstein Abstract: The Operational Impact of Customer Location in On-Demand Services The rapid growth of on-demand delivery services, particularly in the food and grocery sectors, has driven the expansion of hyperlocal fulfillment... View Details

      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

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