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- 2025
- Working Paper
How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement
By: Barbara Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille
This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union organizers, a natural policy experiment that increased wage inequality among Wisconsin... View Details
Biasi, Barbara, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman, and Nina Roussille. "How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33978, July 2025.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Sending Signals: Strategic Displays of Warmth and Competence
By: Bushra S. Guenoun and Julian J. Zlatev
Using a combination of exploratory and confirmatory approaches, this research examines how
people signal important information about themselves to others. We first train machine learning
models to assess the use of warmth and competence impression management... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Personal Characteristics; Perception; Interpersonal Communication
Guenoun, Bushra S., and Julian J. Zlatev. "Sending Signals: Strategic Displays of Warmth and Competence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-051, February 2023.
The International Price of Remote Work
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers located around the world compete for jobs that can be done... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
DeepGreen - the Metals Company and Polymetallic Nodules
The world has begun a “green transition”—a move to reduce carbon emissions. Part of this will entail a growing shift to electric vehicles. Huge amounts of metals—cobalt, nickel, and copper—will be needed to supply electric vehicles. Mining these on land, however, is... View Details
Keywords: Polymetallic Nodules; Seabed Mining; Entrepreneurial Finance; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Problems and Challenges
Vietor, Richard H.K. "DeepGreen - the Metals Company and Polymetallic Nodules." Harvard Business School Case 720-016, November 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Soul and Machine (Learning)
By: Davide Proserpio, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano, Alex Burnap, Tong Guo, Dokyun Lee, Randall Lewis, Kanishka Misra, Eric Schwarz, Artem Timoshenko, Lilei Xu and Hema Yoganarasimhan
Machine learning is bringing us self-driving cars, improved medical diagnostics, and machine translation, but can it improve marketing decisions? It can. Machine learning models predict extremely well, are scalable to “big data,” and are a natural fit to rich media... View Details
Proserpio, Davide, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano, Alex Burnap, Tong Guo, Dokyun Lee, Randall Lewis, Kanishka Misra, Eric Schwarz, Artem Timoshenko, Lilei Xu, and Hema Yoganarasimhan. "Soul and Machine (Learning)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-036, September 2019.
- April 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Supplement
An Overview of Project Finance-2002 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Irina L. Christov
This case introduces to the field of project finance and provides a statistical overview of the project-financed investments over the last five years. It consists of four sections. The first section defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Irina L. Christov. "An Overview of Project Finance-2002 Update." Harvard Business School Supplement 202-105, April 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
support natural disaster response by the National Guard. Sarah also shares how emerging foundational geospatial models will transform adaptation, and she offers career advice for those in climate tech and applied AI. Closing the Loop by... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
measurement of the inefficiency due to early transaction times in a naturally occurring market." Lessons about the value of better matching go far beyond the football field, however. As Roth describes in this e-mail Q&A with HBS... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
sweetriot 2.0
By: Christopher Marquis, Donna Khalife and Bobbi Thomason
In the fall of 2010, Sarah Endline, CEO and Founder of sweetriot, an organic chocolate company, was deciding the best way to grow her organic chocolate company, while keeping her chocolate physically and conceptually on the shelf. She wanted to grow the offerings and... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Profit; Business Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Economic Growth; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (state, US)
Marquis, Christopher, Donna Khalife, and Bobbi Thomason. "sweetriot 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 412-007, June 2011. (Revised April 2014.)
- February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
MCI Vision (A)
By: Frank V. Cespedes
This case series focuses on divisional marketing and sales efforts concerning Vision, a new telecommunication product intended for the small business marketplace. Vision represents both a significant opportunity, and different field marketing requirements, for MCI.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Sales; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy
Cespedes, Frank V. "MCI Vision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 592-083, February 1992. (Revised December 1992.)
- Article
Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980
By: G. Jones
This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the nature of that "control" is far from... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Performance; Business or Company Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Jones, G. "Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980." Business History Review 76, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 435–478.
- Research Summary
The Origins, Current State, and Future of Capitalism
Starting with the dawn of market capitalism in Renaissance Italy, Professor Reinert works at the intersection of economic ideas, policies, and practices in history, particularly as seen through the lens of national strategies in international competition. He seeks to... View Details
- November 1982
- Article
The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique
By: T. M. Amabile
States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details
Amabile, T. M. "The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43, no. 5 (November 1982): 997–1013.
- February 2018
- Case
Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details
- June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
- Background Note
Beer Game, The: Board Version
The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Distribution Channels; Production; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges
Hammond, Janice H. "Beer Game, The: Board Version." Harvard Business School Background Note 694-104, June 1994. (Revised October 1999.)
- 2004
- Working Paper
The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship
We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and collective... View Details
Shah, Sonali, and Mary Tripsas. "The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-054, March 2004. (Revised October 2007.)
- 17 Sep 2019
- News
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- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
region or with a partner in the region Nonprofit organizations Government agencies, especially those working closely with the private sector The program content is global in nature and applicable to the Chinese business environment. The... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
begin a task, pivoting your perspective of where you are and what you can do as your environment changes. Artificial intelligence can’t do that yet—and the machines may have a long way to go before they can truly replicate this near-instant flexibility that is... View Details
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