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  • December 2022
  • Case

Mission Produce in 2022

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Founded by CEO Steve Barnard in 1983, California-based Mission Produce was a leading supplier of Hass avocados with a global sourcing, marketing, and distribution network and $892 million in 2021 sales. Barnard had been influential in the global avocado trade’s... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; California; Peru; Guatemala; Colombia; Mexico; Chile
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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

professionals network of the International Rescue Committee, dubbed “GenR”. I joined the community on a whim, but as I learned more about the work that the IRC did, including visiting their field station in Cote D’Ivoire, I grew more... View Details
  • March 2013
  • Article

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
Geographic communities have been shown to affect organizations through their enduring features, but less attention has been given to communities as sites of human-made and natural events that occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Communities; Punctuated Equilibrium; Corporate Social Responsibility; Institutional Theory; Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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    Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

    This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the... View Details
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

    By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
    This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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    • February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
    • Case

    Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights

    By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
    In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Voting; Race; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Leadership; History; Alabama
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    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to assess the profitability of customers in a networked setting. In such settings, the presence of one type of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 5

    Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
    This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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      Business of Platforms

      The Business of Platforms is an in-depth look at platform strategy and digital innovation.  In this book, we explore how a small number of companies have come to exert extraordinary influence over every dimension of our personal, professional and political... View Details

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      Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

      When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
      Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
      • 18 Apr 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

      forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        William C. Kirby

        William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; wine
        • 19 Mar 2009
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

        Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn

          Jerry R. Green

          Jerry R. Green

          David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

          John Leverett Professor in the University

          Harvard University

           

          Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

          Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
          • 04 Jun 2007
          • Research & Ideas

          Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

          Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care, they are also killing real... View Details
          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
          • 15 Feb 2016
          • Blog Post

          Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

          Charlotte Steel, a former political science major at Brown, was inspired to become a teacher after taking a “Politics of Education” class at her alma mater.  When applying to business school, Charlotte had concerns about whether she had... View Details
          • Web

          Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

          network has accomplished. RECENT Publications The Politics Industry The American political system is broken. How do we fix it? Start by understanding how it actually works.... View Details
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          Business Economics - Doctoral

          Victoria Ivashina Emil N. Siriwardane Adi Sunderam Yuan Zou Game theory Jerry R. Green Investment management Malcolm P. Baker Luis M. Viceira Macroeconomics Alberto F. Cavallo Matthew C. Weinzierl Market design Alex Chan Political economy... View Details
          • 26 Jan 2016
          • First Look

          January 26, 2016

          Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne