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  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

hired. The reason: He said the headscarf she wore as a symbol of modesty in her Muslim faith clashed with the store’s dress code. “No one had ever told me that I could not wear a headscarf and sell clothing,” Elauf is quoted as saying in a 2015 View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • January 2025
  • Case

Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    Camille J. Douglas

    CAMILLE J. DOUGLAS is a Lecturer at Harvard Business School and a Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in their inaugural Master of Real Estate (MRE) degree program. She was an Adjunct Professor in Finance and... View Details

      Trust

      Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
      • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Algramo

      By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
      Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
      Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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      • 08 May 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: May 8, 2007

        Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 18 Nov 2021
      • Op-Ed

      5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

      How did you get them to set aside their differences, their traditional rivalries, and work together? Litow: We created a governance structure in which the community college system, through the City University of View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz
      • 02 Feb 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

      also picked up by major news outlets, including The New York Times. “It actually got a real response from United Airlines,” says Pacelli, noting that the CEO publicly... View Details
      Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology
      • 18 Jul 2023
      • News

      The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

      What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer,... View Details
      Keywords: Robert Bochnak
      • 17 Oct 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

      Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin
      • April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
      • Case

      Buro Happold

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
      Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details
      Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs
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      • 09 Oct 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

      members. In contrast, The New York Times has 2.2 million digital-only subscribers, and the cable news networks are doing well when their prime-time viewership hits a million.... View Details
      Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
      • Web

      Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      enabled them to expand, opening more centers in other cities and developing new programs in conditions such as vertigo, rheumatoid arthritis, and acute back pain. Read More in Publications on Integrated... View Details
      • Web

      The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

      data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, of which Baker... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2023
      • In Practice

      8 Trends to Watch in 2023

      As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • Web

      HBS - The year in Review

      Acceptance Rate 3% More Key Enrollment Statistics New Faculty Twenty-three faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation... View Details
      • January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
      • Case

      Army Crew Team, The

      By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer
      The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races,... View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance; New York (state, US)
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      • 06 Jul 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The Truth About Authentic Leaders

      recent salvo comes from Wharton’s Adam Grant, who wrote in the June 5 New York Times, “’Be yourself’ is actually terrible advice Nobody wants to see your true self.” "Authentic leaders monitor their... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George
      • Web

      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      industry (and the financial sector more generally). Love and Money Rachel Greenwald , Founder & CEO, Elevated Connections + More Info – Less Info Relationships are big business. Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) is a celebrity matchmaker, an executive fellow at HBS, and a... View Details
      • Web

      U.S. Competitiveness

      five years of U.S. Competiveness Project research Re: Nitin Nohria 22 Sep 2016 YAHOO! FINANCE External There’s one piece of tax reform that would have a real impact with little resistance Re: Mihir Desai #USComp More Tweets In the News 06... View Details