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    Archie L. Jones

    Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 1998
    • Article

    Alternative Models of Uncertain Commodity Prices for Use with Modern Asset Pricing Methods

    By: Malcolm Baker, E. S. Mayfield and John Parsons
    This paper provides an introduction to alternative models of uncertain commodity prices. A model of commodity price movements is the engine around which any valuation methodology for commodity production projects is built, whether discounted cash flow (DCF) models or... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Pricing; Goods and Commodities; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Production; Projects; Cash Flow
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    • June 2009
    • Case

    Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza

    In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Logistics; Supply Chain; Transportation; Distribution Industry; Zaragoza
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    Helping at Work

    By: Teresa M. Amabile

    This research focuses on collaboration and helping in creative project teams. Colin Fisher (UCL), Julianna Pillemer (NYU Stern School), and I developed a multi-year research program examining help received and given, including successful and unsuccessful helping... View Details

    Keywords: Collaboration; Helping; Creativity; Creative Industries
    • 9 Nov 2021
    • Interview

    How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Dominic Monkhouse
    If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bring their full self to work, don’t miss Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 25 Nov 2019
    • News

    Navigating Conflict

    • 18 Sep 2019
    • News

    Tillerson’s exit interview

    • March 2025
    • Teaching Note

    Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Buildings; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Seattle
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    Overview

    Prof. Altman's research interests include innovation, strategy, organizational change, platform-based businesses and their related ecosystems. Her work focuses on the impact to incumbent organizations as platform-based highly networked business models become more... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Management; Multi-sided Platforms; Business Ecosystems; Organizational Change; Paradox; Organizational Identity
    • Research Summary

    Shift Auctions

    Shift Auctions are a new labor-market institution, enabled by the internet, whereby workers bid for overtime shifts via descending auctions. The goal of shift auctions is to enable efficient and flexible utilization of a firms own human resources when staffing... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Business History

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the... View Details
    • February 1990 (Revised July 1992)
    • Case

    Whistler Corp. (A)

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Describes the circumstances surrounding Whistler Corp.'s decision whether or not to continue manufacturing operations in the United States. The company had been experiencing severe problems in its domestic manufacturing operations and was thus unable to compete with... View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Production; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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    • 27 Jan 2019
    • News

    How Employers Can Help Caregivers For A Win-Win

    • Research Summary

    Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Evolution of China’s Machine Industry

    This work-in-progress provides a historical perspective on the role of foreign companies as providers of machinery equipment and facilitators of technology transfer in China from the last decade of the 19th century to the early 1950s. The project focuses on... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

    By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland and Peter K. Schott
    We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict U.S. stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Returns; Health Pandemics; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • April 2019
    • Article

    Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

    By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
    Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details
    Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective
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      Ashish Nanda

      Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
      • February 2005 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
      Celulosa Arauco is a major Chilean producer of market pulp and wood products. Owning over 1.2 million hectares of forest in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, the company's key advantage is the ideal growing conditions in which the company's forests are located. As of... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Forest Products Industry; Chile
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        John D. Dionne

        John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details