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- 22 May 2019
- Blog Post
What is FIELD Global Immersion?
Global Partner (GP) company in one of 16 cities that has a product or service challenge they would like the team to address with their local consumers. The course culminates in a one-week Immersion at the end of the semester, at which... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
decreasing). Indeed, that’s the case, but the average masks a lot of differences: across products, across geographies, across consumption patterns. And it appears that those differences have been increasing in the past few years, with some View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Improving Store Liquidation
By: Nathan Craig and Ananth Raman
Store liquidation is the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow... View Details
Craig, Nathan, and Ananth Raman. "Improving Store Liquidation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-096, May 2013.
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management Emma Bloomberg Co-chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Alberto F. Cavallo Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration Rafael M. Di Tella William Ziegler... View Details
- Working Paper
Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application
By: Flora Feng, Charis Li and Shunyuan Zhang
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years featured by unique offerings from individual providers. Despite the perceived value of uniqueness, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness in P2P platforms like Airbnb has been largely... View Details
Keywords: Peer-to-peer Markets; Marketplace Matching; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Marketing
Feng, Flora, Charis Li, and Shunyuan Zhang. "Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4665286, February 2024.
- January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Essex County Community Foundation: Pivot to Systems Philanthropy
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brian Trelstad and Courtney Han
2023 marked five years of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF)’s “systems philanthropy” approach to grantmaking. Located in northeastern Massachusetts, the community foundation served 800,000 residents across 34 cities and towns that varied widely by... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Reputation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Massachusetts
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Brian Trelstad, and Courtney Han. "Essex County Community Foundation: Pivot to Systems Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Case 524-066, January 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- June 2025
- Article
Integral Outside: The Financial Curb Market, the Electric Telegraph, and the Politics of Pricing in Second Empire France
Financial markets in nineteenth-century France were far more complex than an analysis of the official Bourse or its state-authorized brokers would suggest. Most financial transactions occurred on an illegal yet tacitly tolerated curb market called the coulisse, which... View Details
Robertson, Charlotte. "Integral Outside: The Financial Curb Market, the Electric Telegraph, and the Politics of Pricing in Second Empire France." Journal of Modern History 97, no. 2 (June 2025): 307–347.
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Tepperberg is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years, Tepperberg has succeeded in keeping Marquee one of NYC's hottest clubs for what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
Companies that let their workers decide where and when to do their jobs—whether in another city or in the middle of the night—increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and lower organizational costs, new research suggests.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Office Dubai Office Europe Research Center Harvard Center Shanghai India Research Center Japan Research Center Lagos Office Latin America Research Center – Montevideo Latin America Research Center – São Paulo Mexico City Office Mid-US... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
confused. Then, a main character in HBO’s Sex and the City reboot died in an episode that showed him working out on a Peloton bike. The plot twist seemed like a metaphor for the brand’s troubles. [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
- April 2018
- Case
Miami's Tech Future (Abridged): Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Leadership Challenges
By the middle of the 1990s, Miami’s reputation was changing. An influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants and major investments in the airport and seaport had changed the image of a sleepy southern city to the de facto business center of Latin America, a center for... View Details
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Leadership Fellows
recruiting partners and past Fellows or view this past year's press release . ACLU City of Cambridge Sesame Workshop Boston Ballet Harlem Children’s Zone Boston Children’s Hospital The Juilliard School Teach For America BRAC USA Kresge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)
Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
cities such as Tulsa, OK and Columbus, OH. Smaller group sizes allowed for faster implementation of change and gave students transferrable concepts and skills to leverage throughout their careers. FIELD Immersion Press Release Synergies... View Details
- January–February 2025
- Article
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: the emergence of relocation incentive programs that localities use to compete for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Motivation and Incentives; Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Human Capital; Tulsa
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Evan Starr. "Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers." Organization Science 36, no. 1 (January–February 2025): 186–212.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: geographic competition between localities for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for their new destinations and reverse net... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Human Capital; Geographic Location; Civil Society or Community; Motivation and Incentives
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Evan Starr. "Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-071, May 2023.
- July 2021
- Article
Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences
By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
Anicich, Eric, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne, and L. Taylor Phillips. "Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences." Art. 104117. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 95 (July 2021).
- December 2011
- Case
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
By: James K. Sebenius and Kimberlyn Leary
The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path 4000 years ago. The Path begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in modern-day Turkey, where Abraham first heard... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation; Social Entrepreneurship; Religion; Culture; Tourism Industry; Israel; Syria; Middle East; Turkey; Jordan
Sebenius, James K., and Kimberlyn Leary. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham." Harvard Business School Case 912-017, December 2011.