Conference Calls - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

competitive advantage because trust can increase the gains from trade for firms and their suppliers. In this study, we document a particular type of competitive advantage conferred by trust. Using adoption rates of a new product as a case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

In today’s high-tech economy, it’s not just quant skills and R&D know-how that confer competitive advantage. Relationships still matter—maybe more than ever, as social media turbocharges old-fashioned networking. A new study mapped... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Marketing - Faculty & Research

Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Featured Publication Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb By: Shunyuan... View Details

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

delivered at regular intervals and automatically enjoy any upgrades. However, subscriptions have become so widespread that many consumers are starting to feel overwhelmed with what some are calling “subscriptionitis.” And customers have... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Cold Call podcast, featuring HBS professor Mike Toffel and Duncan van Bergen, Co-Founder of Calyx Global. The discussion focuses on Mike’s recent HBS case study, Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits, which explores how the company is... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award Organization Development & Change Division, Academy of Management By: Michael Tushman More... View Details

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

basis, were assigned daily sales quotas. For hitting their targets, employees could earn bonuses of up to $2,000 per quarter on top of their quarterly base salary of $7,500. Daily scorecards ranked individual employees against sales goals, and daily View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), became effective on October 17, 2005. This note summarizes key provisions of the new law that affect business bankruptcy reorganization under... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

12 Apr 2022
Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

Diamond began attending genealogy conferences and became a regular at his local library, which had a vast collection of telephone books. His paternal grandparents’ names were relatively unique, so he called... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

AI system contain bias, she contended, the outputs will contain the same bias, a problem that multiplies as the size of the dataset grows. In 2020, Gebru and Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, led the submission of a major paper to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

Research Summary

3D Negotiaton

By: James K. Sebenius

In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details

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Events - Business History

HBS. Please RSVP by email to bhi@hbs.edu to attend. Mar 18 18 Mar 2024 Conference Oral History and Business in the Global South This two-day conference met on March 18 and 19. Organized by Geoff Jones and... View Details

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Klarman Hall | About

faculty, staff, alumni, and other visitors who take part in hundreds of campus activities each year—from research symposia and conferences to cultural events and performances such as the HBS Show. From the outset, Klarman Hall’s plans... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

plainly what was at stake," he wrote in Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. The answer, in Schultz's mind, was a three-day conference in New Orleans in October 2008, a moment when the global economy... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

different story to a different audience. The authors illustrate their argument using the case of SAP, the German software company. SAP was the first company to host an "ESG Briefing," a conference View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

in Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how linguistic complexity affects the capital market reaction to information disclosures. We... View Details