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  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces farmers to shift production towards higher-return but higher-risk cash crops, particularly among educated farmers. Our results support the view that financial innovation can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

on average, the implementation of the preferential incentive plan was associated with improvements in sales. Also, we find that this plan was associated with greater improvements in sales and gross profits as well as reductions in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

implement the layoffs quickly—in less than a year—to minimize workplace disruptions and gain credibility with the capital market. For some companies, however, strategic and business factors could warrant a more gradual approach to downsizing. For example, consider a... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

“algorithmic bias” as one of the “most important emergent issues plaguing our society today.” Google turns its back on Gebru Gebru joined Google in 2018 as co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence unit, shifting her focus... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • 09 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

experiences of leading investors and entrepreneurs, including Erik Snyder of the Drawdown Fund, Scott Jacobs of Generate and Rodi Guidero of Breakthrough Energy. The final phase of the SIP focused on common challenges faced by climate start-ups, such as balancing View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

understand a business. “We want to make money and always looking to generate alpha in our investment strategies, so if machine learning can make us profitable and improve our risk management and trading efficiency, so be it.” Kost: It... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

the core of the near-miraculous turnaround Joly spearheaded at the company during the 2010s. Joly stepped in as CEO of Best Buy in 2012, just after its quarterly profits plummeted by 91 percent and its stock price hit a nine-year low.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

  PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

leaders with business celebrities he says never found their True North. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, has deflected blame for his company’s many scandals, even pushing back against a whistleblower’s accusation that profits... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

moving in favorable directions. McCool confirmed his belief in the strategy when he confidently told the employees to stay the course, to keep improving the performance driver measures on the scorecard. And his faith was soon confirmed: By the end of the year, Mobil... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal, and Eric BaldwinHarvard Business School Case 412-079 This case explores a shift in strategic direction at PepsiCo, the second-largest food and beverage company in the world. It concentrates... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

creating racially diverse organizations are getting sidelined." That’s especially important today, since inclusion programs have shifted in recent years toward recognizing more forms of diversity—based on gender and sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

productivity; and then workers need to capture those productivity gains through higher wages. “What we find is that’s not the case,” Rouen says. “We have seen corporate profits rise and unemployment fall to historic lows, but wages have... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a simple model of two-sided platforms, in which one side (W) values not just the quantity (i.e., number) of users on the other side (M), but also their average quality in some dimension. In this context, platforms might... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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