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About - Business & Environment
challenges facing our world today. Carolyn Weinberg Carolyn Weinberg is working with Peter Tufano and Lynn Schenk on topics including climate finance and market structure. Carolyn served as Chief Product Innovation Officer of BlackRock,... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to understand and improve the View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
hosts who have never had an African-American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb’s current View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2018
- Working Paper
Full Substitutability
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of... View Details
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp. "Full Substitutability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-016.
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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HBS - The year in Review
pandemic travel restrictions, the program pivoted to focus on US challenges and opportunities, taking more than 1,000 students to one of 15 domestic locations. With a lens on the course’s three modules—contextual intelligence, team effectiveness, and View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin
By: Hubert Joly, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
In 2019, Parker Hannifin, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of motion and control technologies, did something unusual for an industrial company: it created a purpose statement. Even though it already had a clear business strategy and longstanding culture of... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Communication Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Cleveland; Ohio; United States
Joly, Hubert, Alicia Dadlani, and Martha Hostetter. "Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin." Harvard Business School Case 525-015, July 2024.
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
decided to implement the cradle-to-cradle (C2C) design protocol during the design of its mid-level office chair, Mirra. The C2C protocol was a set of environmentally friendly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Background Note
Running and Growing the Small Company: Course Overview
Addresses challenges facing managers, presidents, and owners in generating and sustaining superior performance, especially as a company broadens its mix of goods and services, increases the volume of its sales, and enlarges the size of its workforce. The critical... View Details
Spear, Steven J. "Running and Growing the Small Company: Course Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-077, October 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Digital Safety and Innovation By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka May–June 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Design (14) Product Development (14) Product Launch (5) Product Marketing (33) Product Positioning (5) View Details
- 09 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
- 2013
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850
By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership
with the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Karina Grazina Program Manager As the Program Manager of the Leadership Initiative (LI), Karina collaborates with the development of instructional materials, and... View Details
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details
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Value Creation Through Effective Boards
Summary The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate board member, this program provides the frameworks for... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
shouldn’t they be a dime a dozen (or perhaps even more appropriately, a penny a billion)? The trick is precisely that these tokens aren’t a dime a dozen—they’re not random, arbitrary bits. Rather, each NFT is an individually distinct digital record, which can be linked... View Details
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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Company The Walt Disney Company creates corporate value by harnessing fit across the value chains of its multiple business units. Compete in theme parks and resorts, video entertainment, and consumer product divisions leveraging the... View Details
- February 2011
- Supplement
Carbon Trading Simulation: Brown Cement Inc.
By: Peter A. Coles
This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Economics; Investment; Business or Company Management; Market Design; Pollutants
Coles, Peter A. "Carbon Trading Simulation: Brown Cement Inc." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-052, February 2011.