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  • Research Summary

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I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
  • 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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  • November 2017
  • Case

The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Tom Nicholas and Matthew Preble
In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History; Health; Government Legislation; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; Europe
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  • 2010
  • Book

Unilever'i Yenilemek: Dönüşüm ve Gelenek [Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition]

By: Geoffrey Jones
Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the world. This arresting and impressive fact shows the scope and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Globalization; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 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

    Ryan W. Buell

    Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

    Keywords: fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food; fast food
    • 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
    • 25 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    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
    • May 2024
    • Case

    HarvEast

    By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
    In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details
    Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Natural Resources; Food; Problems and Challenges; Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Logistics; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Trust; Human Needs; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America; Ukraine
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      David E. Bell

      David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

      During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

      Keywords: food; food; food; food; food; food; food; food; food; food; food
      • Article

      Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?

      By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth
      The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess... View Details
      Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Policy; Health; Market Transactions; Attitudes; Trust
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      • December 2005 (Revised October 2006)
      • Case

      Nest Fresh Eggs (A)

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
      Cyd Szymanski's cage-free egg business was threatened by large caged-hen companies that saw new profit potential in the industry she had helped build. Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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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
      • 07 Jul 2022
      • HBS Case

      How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

      as one of her “favorite things.” The Food Network named Smith’s salted chocolate and brownie-flavored ice cream, “It Came From Gowanus,” as the No. 1 ice cream in the country. So how did Ample Hills Creamery, with its celebrity buzz, $10... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • 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
      • 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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      • 05 May 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

      day than the other groups, who had spent that time reflecting and sharing instead. Gino hopes that the research will provide food for thought to overworked managers and employees alike. "I don't see a lot of organizations that actually... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 08 Dec 2022
      • HBS Case

      The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

      Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, faced a difficult choice last February as Russian tanks rolled across Ukraine, and the 24/7 news and social media cycle amplified the company’s every move. CEO Mark Schneider was... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
      • 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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