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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • November 2020
    • Case

    Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce

    By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
    Founded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with ‘education as a benefit.’ The Denver-based company is transforming traditional tuition assistance programs by facilitating direct payment by... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Employees; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Technology Industry; Colorado
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    • 04 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 4

    organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    balances, mobility, and social networks as well as borrowers’ self-reported income and employment. We further show that this positive impact is more pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business... View Details
    • November 2007
    • Case

    Differences at Work: Jenny (A)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
    Differences at Work: Jenny (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-017 is set in Amsterdam. Accompanied by her boss, Jenny is pitching a marketing engagement, but the prospective client keeps making comments about how attractive he finds her. View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Employees; Diversity; Netherlands
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    • Web

    Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms experience larger stock price declines following events damaging the Party’s reputation, and (vi) firms increase... View Details
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

    Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information

    By: David Freiberg, DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
    As an organization’s environmental impact has become a central societal consideration, thereby affecting industry and organizational competitiveness, interest in measuring and analyzing environmental impact has increased. We develop a methodology to derive comparable... View Details
    Keywords: Environment; Impact; Measurement; Environmental Ratings; Corporate Valuation; Financial Materiality; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation
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    • 04 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

    hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big... View Details
    Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
    • Research Summary

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    By: John A. Deighton
    Professor Deighton conducts research at the intersection of information technology and marketing. He is interested in the complementary uses of human and artificial intelligence and creativity in areas such as advertising, content creation, and online retailing. He... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Media; Information Technology; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Publishing Industry; North and Central America; Asia; Europe
    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    management and organisational practices. By this time, social science research had already shown that people’s behaviour is shaped as much by situational and contextual factors as by individual character. The 1963 Milgram experiments by... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 21 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

    The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Business of K-12 Education in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
    Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • April 2018
    • Case

    The Bayer - Monsanto Merger: GMOs and 'Science for a Better Life'

    By: Martha J. Crawford and James Barnett
    This case allows students to explore the economic, ethical and legal challenges faced by agri-business companies, after several decades of promoting and selling Genetically Modified (GM) crops. Starting in the 1980s, the widespread introduction of GM crops was... View Details
    Keywords: Merger; Acquisition; GMO; Genetically Modified Crops; Neonics; Pesticides; Crop Seeds; EU; Mergers and Acquisitions; Agribusiness; Genetics; Natural Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consolidation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United States
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    • 07 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

    There is a market for everything—even dead bodies. Medical students use cadavers to gain experience, and their future patients are better off for it. Traditionally, cadavers have been obtained through university programs, but now... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • May 2022
    • Supplement

    Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
    Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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    • 17 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

    discovery to validate a problem but don’t yet have a product, my follow-up question is: “How do you know people or companies will use your product?” Answers are equally discouraging. More often than not, I hear examples of interest tests, such as hits on View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • February 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Dubai: Global Economy

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Nicole Michele Forrest
    This case, along with Saudi Arabia: “Modern Reform, Enduring Stability” (709-042), provides an opportunity to discuss Saudi Arabia's efforts to modernize, without really Westernizing, in sharp contrast to Dubai, a nearby Arab Emirate. As Saudi Arabia's development... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia; Dubai; Middle East
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    • 10 Jul 2015
    • News

    Starbucks, #Racetogether, and How Companies Do Good the Right Way

      Christopher A. Bartlett

      Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

      As a practicing manager prior... View Details

      Keywords: consulting; health care; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; wine