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  • January 2020
  • Case

SK Group: Social Progress Credits

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg
SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details
Keywords: Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Social Value; Social Development; Conglomerates; Measurement Of Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Capital Markets; Innovation; Environmental Impact; Collaboration; Social Enterprise; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Measurement and Metrics; Value Creation; Cooperation; Environmental Sustainability; Employment; Accounting; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Chemical Industry; South Korea
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  • September 2023
  • Teaching Note

Esquel Group

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 307-076 and 322-058. These cases focus on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer, Esquel Group, and how it manages various aspects of government relations in China and abroad. The A case identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries; Fashion Industry; China
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    Marco E. Tabellini

    Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research... View Details

    • Article

    The End of Chimerica

    For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. over-consumption. The financial crisis of 2007-09 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican relationship.... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; China; United States
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    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Empirical Tests of Information Aggregation

    Keywords: by Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Web Services
    • Research Summary

    Internet Auctions for Close Substitutes

    Economists agree that eBays auction design is sensible and potentially welfare-maximizing for the trade of collectibles, which are unique and idiosyncratic. For mainstream goods, which have close but imperfect substitutes (cars, cameras, computers, clothes), the... View Details

    • November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    United Technologies: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
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    • August 2018
    • Article

    Extrapolation and Bubbles

    By: Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin and Andrei Shleifer
    We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors... View Details
    Keywords: Bubble; Extrapolation; Volume; Price Bubble; Mathematical Methods
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    • April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    The Container Store

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia
    The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Conscious Capitalism; Merchandising; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Service Delivery; Going Public; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United States
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    • March 2014
    • Article

    Search Diversion and Platform Competition

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
    Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion... View Details
    Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Platform Competition; Competition; Two-Sided Platforms
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      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • 25 Apr 2023
      • Op-Ed

      How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

      business trade publication estimates that between July and December 2021, SHEIN added 2,000 to 10,000 items per day to its app. Sheng Lu, an associate professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, estimates that... View Details
      Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
      • 02 Mar 2018
      • HBS Seminar

      William F. Maloney, World Bank, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

      • 12 Feb 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels

      Keywords: by Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton & Thomas Steenburgh; Retail
      • March 2008
      • Article

      Market Reactions to Export Subsidies

      By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.
      This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; Development Economics; Financial Markets; Profit; Taxation; Volume; Value Creation; Market Design; Business Subsidiaries; Utilities Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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      Continuous Combinatorial Exchange

      In multiple-good economies with many buyers and sellers (or many swappers) researchers have advocated Combinatorial Exchange generalized one-shot double auctions in which traders can express offers to buy, sell, or swap packages of goods to facilitate efficient... View Details

      • January 2022
      • Supplement

      Kornit Digital: The Amazon Warrants (C)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
      As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants almost 20... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      • 2018
      • Chapter

      Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S.

      By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
      The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an incoherent attack on the neoclassical economic paradigm. This essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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      • March 24, 2015
      • Article

      Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism

      By: Aaron Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
      When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing trend of "CEO activism." Despite the criticism of that particular initiative, CEO activism—from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Strategy; Race
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      • 2014
      • Article

      Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

      By: Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos
      We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities trade with arbitrageurs.... View Details
      Keywords: Bonds; Investment Return
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