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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion

By: Ryan Allen and Prithwiraj Choudhury
Past research offers mixed perspectives on whether domain experience helps or hurts algorithm-augmented work performance. To reconcile these perspectives, we theorize that domain experience affects algorithm-augmented performance via two distinct countervailing... View Details
Keywords: Automation; Domain Experience; Algorithmic Aversion; Experts; Algorithms; Machine Learning; Decision-making; Future Of Work; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Performance
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  • April 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Tessa Natanay Hamilton
Following a successful career as the first female Vice President of Goldman Sachs in Asia, Junko Yoda became a 2010 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During her fellowship, she set out to promote awareness, and prevent and alleviate the effects of human... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Business And Community; Community Impact; Communities; Economic Development; Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Asia
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    Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

    How does an entrepreneur, aspiring manager, or CEO become a master of strategy? In this book, we argue that everyone can learn from three of the greatest strategist of modern time, Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs, who also built three of the most valuable... View Details

    • 30 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma

    Keywords: by Charles A. O’Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
    • January 2022
    • Article

    Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry

    By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
    This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate the performance impact of product repositioning. It then examines how a product's brand equity value declines with repositioning distance... View Details
    Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Brand Equity; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Regulation; Repositioning; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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    • May 2009
    • Article

    Lobbies and Technology Diffusion

    By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
    This paper explores whether lobbies slow down technology diffusion. To answer this question, we exploit the differential effect of various institutional attributes that should affect the costs of erecting barriers when the new technology has a technologically close... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cost; Problems and Challenges; Knowledge Dissemination; Competition
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    • 08 Dec 2022
    • HBS Case

    The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

    the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who explores those challenges in a case study co-written with HBS research associate Christopher Diak. “There’s the question of how you deal with these... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
    • 19 Oct 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Should Global Beer Company Molson Coors Dive into the Cannabis Beverages Business?

    Keywords: Re: Derek C. M. van Bever
    • TeachingInterests

    Driving Digital Strategy

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

    Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to harness its... View Details

    • November 2010 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    CNOOC: Building a World-Class Energy Company

    By: Joseph L. Bower, Nancy Hua Dai and Michael Shih-ta Chen
    Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China National Offshore Oil Company - an SOE founded in 1982 to exploit Chinese offshore deposits. In 2010 he is trying to decide how to drive further growth in a company that has grown 556 times in less than 30 years, with profits... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Organizational Culture; State Ownership; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry; China
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    • Article

    The Harmonization of Lending Standards within Banks through Mandated Loan-Level Transparency

    By: Jung Koo Kang, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
    We explore whether the introduction of transparent reporting rules increases credit standard harmonization within a bank. We exploit the new loan-level reporting rules imposed on banks that borrow from the European Central Bank using repurchase agreements... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; External And Internal Reporting; Credit Term Harmonization; Regulatory Scrutiny; Banks and Banking; Credit; Financial Reporting; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Learning
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    • 11 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11

    policy epoch; second, conditional on the first choice, it has to decide on its local responsiveness strategy at the onset of each policy epoch. India, which experienced two policy shocks-shutting down to MNEs in 1970 and then opening up again in 1991-offers an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2023
    • Article

    Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?

    By: Laurent Calvet, Claire Célérier, Paolo Sodini and Boris Vallée
    This paper shows that securities with a non-linear payoff design can foster household risk-taking. We demonstrate this effect empirically by exploiting the introduction of capital guarantee products in Sweden from 2002 to 2007. The fast and broad adoption of these... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Innovation; Household Finance; Structured Products; Stock Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Household; Personal Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Market Participation
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    • 06 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

    hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2024
    • Article

    Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

    By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
    An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Assets
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    • Working Paper

    Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

    By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
    An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation
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    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
    Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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    • 05 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

    Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    • 25 Aug 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Agglomeration and Innovation

    Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr