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- May 2021 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?
By: Richard Vietor
Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute, which... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Productivity Growth; Conflict; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market; Competitiveness; Dutch Disease; Security; Peace; Informality; Labor Laws; Total Factor Productivity; Labor Productivity; COVID-19 Pandemic; Economics; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Economy; Macroeconomics; Conflict Management; Competitive Advantage; Infrastructure; Negotiation; Inflation and Deflation; Non-Renewable Energy; National Security; Government Administration; Latin America; Central America; Colombia; South America
Vietor, Richard. "Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?" Harvard Business School Case 721-053, May 2021. (Revised November 2024.)
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
political participation and bolstered economic conditions for Black communities. But the law also galvanized "racially conservative" white voters, stoking their fear of losing power and influence, a dynamic that lingers today, write... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Sep 25 2020
- Testimonial
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
- Web
An Inspiring Experience
Hear from Joanna and Chip Gaines, Ciara Wilson, Julius Randle, and other program participants about the challenges that brought them to The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports program, and how this dynamic environment helped... View Details
- Sep 07 2022
- Short Film
Program Preview: Leading in the Digital Era
- July 2012
- Article
The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love
By: Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely
In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the increase in valuation of self-made products. Participants saw their amateurish creations as... View Details
Norton, Michael I., Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely. "The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love." Journal of Consumer Psychology 22, no. 3 (July 2012): 453–460.
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
A few years ago, HBS Executive Education unveiled the program Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, designed to introduce executives to the process of joining a corporate board. Since that first session, hundreds of female executives have View Details
- Web
Program Experience: Leading in the Digital Era
Leading in the Digital Era participants discuss why they chose to attend the program, what aspects of the program they found most compelling, and how they plan to implement what they've learned at their organizations. View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2021, and HBS will be supporting and participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community throughout October. Some students come out before business school, some students wait until they... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
tested their idea through a 2015 field experiment that involved 2,500 participants in a walking program offered by the Evidation health tracking platform. The program paid the walkers small amounts of money based on their total steps. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
opportunity for me to explore this topic. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Professor Kevin Sharer (former CEO at Amgen), we participated in case discussions with current and past CEOs of major public companies to uncover their day-to-day... View Details
Livia Alfonsi
Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. In a separate line... View Details
- May 2007 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Prediction Markets at Google
By: Peter A. Coles, Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
In its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Information Technology
Coles, Peter A., Karim R. Lakhani, and Andrew P. McAfee. "Prediction Markets at Google." Harvard Business School Case 607-088, May 2007. (Revised August 2007.)
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
With Hepatitis C running rampant in Egypt in 2012, Clifford Samuel, then of California-based Gilead Sciences, convened a series of urgent meetings with Egyptian government officials, doctors, and patients. His goal? To make Gilead’s lifesaving Hepatitis C drugs... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Helping MBA Students Scale Mount Everest
- 20 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
October 11 is National Coming Out Day (NCOD) and HBS is participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community throughout October as part of the broader LGBTQ+ History Month—a month focused on acknowledging and celebrating the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2020, and HBS will be supporting and participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all week long. Some students come out before business school, and some students wait until they arrive... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014, the paradigm is being experienced... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Facts about Clubs at HBS
Many of you may have experience participating in, leading, and even founding groups during your time as an undergraduate or in the workplace. Clubs at HBS can similarly provide many terrific opportunities and experiences during your time... View Details