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  • July 2019
  • Article

Using Behavioral Science to Inform the Design of Sugary Drink Portion Limit Policies: Reply to Wilson and Stolarz-Fantino (2018)

By: Leslie John, Grant E. Donnelly and Christina A. Roberto
In their commentary, Wilson & Stolarz-Fantino argue that specific design features of our research mean that it cannot have policy implications and that researchers “need to consider profit maximization in menu design or studies are likely to suggest ill-informed... View Details
Keywords: Policy Implementation; Food; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
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  • 04 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number View Details
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch Cross-Cultural Project Management

By: Ying Zhang, Christopher Marquis, Sergey Filippov, Henk-Jan Haasnoot and Martijn van der Steen
This study investigates the role of national and organisational culture in day-to-day activities of multinational project teams, specifically focusing on differences between Chinese and Dutch project managers. We rely on fieldwork observation and interviews with... View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Culture; Projects; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; China; Netherlands
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    Allison H. Mnookin

    Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details

    • 25 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

    bring data and experiments into their organizations." However, the use of experiments remains spotty, with even data-driven companies still figuring out how to make the most of them. After observing several... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

    Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of... View Details
    Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

    children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP

    How do I find a time series of stock prices using CRSP in WRDS? You can search for stock prices in CRSP in View Details
    • 21 May 2018
    • HBS Case

    How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

    company executives debating how to set the price for its latest innovation, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. The CEO, head of production, and head of product... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
    • 10 Aug 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

    including some of our prior work, has shown that students display a number of systematic biases in the college application process, so it could be the case that students are... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 12 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    “customer,” the resident in the City,” says Pasricha. Planning for the Future Pasricha has been working remotely since March 10. As a practical matter, she advises, “Buy a good set of headphones – you’re... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
    • 28 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    “customer,” the resident in the City,” says Pasricha. Planning for the Future Pasricha has been working remotely since March 10. As a practical matter, she advises, “Buy a good set of headphones – you’re... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details
    • October 2022
    • Article

    How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

    By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
    How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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    • 05 Aug 2020
    • News

    Juneteenth Case Pledge: Q+A with Class of 2021's Annie Plachta and Caleb Bradford, and Jan Rivkin and Matt Weinzierl

    • 5 Sep 2013
    • Conference Presentation

    The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

    By: Ai Hisano
    This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
    Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 01 Apr 1999
    • News

    A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

    Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information company, CBS MarketWatch.com,... View Details
    • 19 Jan 2021
    • In Practice

    Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

    change, we will continue to further destroy the planet and further cement inequality. This is why my hope is that President Biden and his team will implement a set of policies that will put human beings and... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Jun 1999
    • News

    A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

    Have you heard the one about the minister and the stockbroker waiting in line at the Pearly Gates? St. Peter smiles and says to the stockbroker, "My son, take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Then he... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 08 Jul 2002
    • What Do You Think?

    Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

    Among the proposals for legislation and oversight, one relatively simple one has been set forth by the SEC and supported by the administration to provide checks on what might be regarded by some as the excesses View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett