by Andrew King - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author of the study along with View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

23 Jul 2001
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How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

at a company that would act as an avenue rather than a barrier to his vision of the future of technology. It was Noyce's silicon integrated circuit that gave "Silicon Valley" its name. Andrew Carnegie's career provides a guide... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

Fall 2013
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Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas

By: Andrew King and Karim R. Lakhani

Which parts of your innovation processes should you open up to the wider world? To reap the benefits of open innovation, executives must understand what to open, how to open it, and how to manage the resulting problems. According to authors Andrew King of Dartmouth... View Details

Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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08 Jan 2018
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Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen

23 Jul 2007
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HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

HBS professor Andy McAfee had his doubts about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia created and maintained by volunteers. "I just didn't think it could yield a good outcome or a good encyclopedia. But I started consulting it and reading the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

06 Jul 2009
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Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2023
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Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

offered new insight into how best to create psychologically safe workplaces, detailed in a new analysis by Edmondson and Harvard doctoral researcher Derrick P. Bransby that distills insights from 185 research papers. Psychological safety... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

September 2012 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Integrated Reporting in South Africa

This case presents a 20-year history of the evolution of corporate governance and corporate reporting in South Africa starting in 1992 with a focus on the three King codes of corporate governance (King I in 1994, King II in 2000, and King III in 2009). From a reporting... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Sustainability Reporting; Stock Exchanges; South Africa; Corporate Reporting; Regulation; Nonfinancial Performance; History; Corporate Disclosure; Markets; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Performance; Corporate Governance; South Africa

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16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

14 May 2024
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Vatican Conference on ‘Climate Resilience’ Is the Latest in a Long Line of Environment Initiatives by Pope Francis and the Catholic Church – 5 Essential Reads

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Summing Up If not useful growth, what are we measuring? And why? This column does not thrive on general agreement. And this past month discussants came close to general agreement on the proposition that economic growth is not measured properly View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

09 Apr 2024
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When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

17 Jul 2023
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Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In May, Hall convened what he hopes will be a yearly conference of scholars now working in the burgeoning field of incentive design, which draws lessons from both microeconomics and behavioral science and is being... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Jul 2022
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When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

post-doctoral researcher Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew Kun of the University of New Hampshire, and Orit Shaer of Wellesley College. Work vs. personal multitasking Numerous studies have been conducted over the years, including some View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

18 Oct 2017
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How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

October 2018
Case

Shield AI

By: Mitchell Weiss and A.J. Steinlage

Shield AI’s quadcopter – with no pilot and no flight plan – could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots... View Details

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31 Mar 2023
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Pando: Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2023 New Venture Competition

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McDonald's Corp. (Condensed)

By: W. Earl Sasser and David C. Rikert

Describes the operating system of McDonald's, the world's most successful fast food chain. The case does not have a decision focus; it is designed for use with Burger King Corp. Students are asked to compare the operating systems of these two fast food hamburger... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry

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