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  • December 2022
  • Article

Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences

By: Leigh Plunkett Tost, Ashley E. Hardin and Francesca Gino
We examine whether narratives about, and the psychological consequences of, perceived gender discrimination differ between women and men. We argue that women and men have different dominant narratives about the reasons why people discriminate against people of their... View Details
Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Organizations; Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Perception
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  • 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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Curriculum - Case Method Project

theories; majority rule vs. tyranny of the majority; dangers of small republics; “expanding the sphere”; the Constitutional Convention; origins of American federalism, Articles I-III of the U.S. Constitution In Detail: Debt and Paper... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 13 Apr 2017
  • Webinars: Career

How to Successfully Manage Change for Leaders, Teams & Organizations

Are you or your team facing a change or professional transition? Listen to Dr. Michael Watkins share his latest research findings on the challenges and solutions of professional transitionsfor leaders, teams, and entire organizations. When leaders take new roles, they... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

half hour as the children tried to work the milkshake through a straw. In that case, a different, thinner milkshake was in order. Proven Success And Purpose Branding Several major companies that have succeeded with a jobs-to-be-done... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

    Richard F. Meyer

    Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
    Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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    • November 2007
    • Case

    Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
    Translating innovative ideas form the clinician to the patient remains a major problem in the field of medicine. Dr. John Parrish and colleagues created an organization (CIMIT) that brings the technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Research and Development; Health Industry; Service Industry
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    • February 2001 (Revised January 2002)
    • Case

    Tracmail

    By: Paul W. Marshall, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
    Tracmail, an online customer service company based in India, is trying to handle support services (e-mail and chat) for companies worldwide. In its quest to break into global markets, Tracmail is contemplating a joint venture with a U.S. call center. Tracmail is also... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; India; United States
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    • 25 Jun 2012
    • News

    Harvard’s prescription for a broken American political system

    • 12 Mar 2013
    • News

    How to pick a pope (or any church leader)

    • 07 Sep 2019
    • Op-Ed

    Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

    It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, I flipped to the CNN Climate Town Hall, where Democratic presidential candidates... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Enhancing Treatment Effect Prediction on Privacy-Protected Data: An Honest Post-Processing Approach

    By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
    As firms increasingly rely on customer data for personalization, concerns over privacy and regulatory compliance have grown. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong individual-level protection by injecting noise into data before collection. While... View Details
    Keywords: Targeted Intervention; Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation; Differential Privacy; Honest Estimation; Post-processing; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Marketing
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    • January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
    • Case

    Lotus Development Corp.

    By: William A. Sahlman
    Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry
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    • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation (Abridged)

    By: Scott P. Mason
    Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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    • August 2007 (Revised June 2008)
    • Case

    The Lapdesk Company: A South African FOPSE

    Shane Immelman, founding CEO of Lapdesk (South Africa), is facing several acute problems: a conflict between his director of marketing and his director of field operations; a dramatic increase in prices by a key supplier; and a major strategic alliance that does not... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Education Industry; South Africa
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    • April 2007 (Revised July 2011)
    • Case

    The Tale of the Lynx (A)

    By: Noam Wasserman
    The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Computer Industry
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    • October 2002 (Revised February 2006)
    • Case

    Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., 2002

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Masako Egawa
    Carlos Ghosn, a former executive vice president of Renault, became the COO of Nissan Motor Co., a troubled auto company in Japan when Renault bought 38% of the company in 1999. This case deals with how Ghosn turned the company around. Examines in considerable detail... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Transformation; Globalization; Leadership Development; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry; Japan
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    • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
    Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
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