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Era Jain
your hometown? Food! Especially Indian street food, better known as “Chaat.” As kids, there was one specific Chaat shop that my sister and I visited every Sunday. Those trips were a total treat and I always ended up overeating. I’ll... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?
- November 2021
- Case
Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
- January 2020
- Article
The Market Reacts Quickly: Changes in Paclitaxel Vascular Device Purchasing Within the Ascension Healthcare System
By: Peter P. Monteleone, Subhash Banerjee, Priya Kothapalli, Ariel Dora Stern, Daniel Fehder, Ron Ginor, Dominic Vollmar, Edward T. A. Fry and Mark J. Pirwitz
Background. A meta-analysis of trials in endovascular therapy suggested an increased mortality associated with treatment exposure to paclitaxel. Multiple publications and corrections of prior data were performed, and the United States Food and Drug Administration has... View Details
Monteleone, Peter P., Subhash Banerjee, Priya Kothapalli, Ariel Dora Stern, Daniel Fehder, Ron Ginor, Dominic Vollmar, Edward T. A. Fry, and Mark J. Pirwitz. "The Market Reacts Quickly: Changes in Paclitaxel Vascular Device Purchasing Within the Ascension Healthcare System." Journal of Invasive Cardiology 32, no. 1 (January 2020).
- 2017
- Chapter
Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
A long-standing question in business ethics is whether business enterprises are themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose." In The Moral Responsibility of Firms, edited by Eric Orts and N. Craig Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Article
Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups
By: M. Valentine and A. C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Performance Efficiency
Valentine, M., and A. C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Organization Science 26, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 405–422.
- Article
Pitfall or Scaffolding? Starting-point Pull in Configuration Decision Making
By: Eliran Halali, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and David Leiser
In configuration problems, such as the construction of a weekly study schedule, decision makers must assemble a combination of parts under a set of constraints. Interactions may be present between the parts, and more than a single objective function may exist, such as... View Details
Halali, Eliran, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and David Leiser. "Pitfall or Scaffolding? Starting-point Pull in Configuration Decision Making." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 39, no. 2 (March 2013): 502–514.
- March 2013
- Case
An Entrepreneur's New Product Development Journey
By: Elie Ofek
This case tracks the new product development process undertaken by Gauri Nanda, the founder and CEO of Nanda Home, as she ventures to innovate beyond her initial product launches. Having achieved commercial success with her first product Clocky, a roll away alarm clock... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Ofek, Elie. "An Entrepreneur's New Product Development Journey." Harvard Business School Case 513-098, March 2013.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups
By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-062, January 2012. (Revised June 2014.)
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
a case by case basis. The final determination of whether or not a payment can be made rests solely with HBS. CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT : Funding is provided to the recipient for a specific opportunity and may not be transferred to a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
solutions. “One of the things that’s very clear is that she uses data to manage, and thinks about things in a very pragmatic way, which is what you need.” Each of these initiatives has reformed specific aspects of solid-waste management... View Details
- 28 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS
coffee chats; it’s better to have more information, not less. CPD is a fantastic resource, but the best way to make use of their services is to be specific in requests for help. Regarding applications materials, CPD is immensely helpful.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
prohibited. When a student is selected to speak, all other hands must go down to give the student an emphasized platform on which to thoughtfully express themselves. The questions asked are concise and specific and redundancy of responses... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate bonds
hit GO for a list of bonds issued by the company and its subsidiaries; e.g., GM [CORP] [GO]. Scroll through the list and select a specific issue. (Make sure the Exclude drop-down menu is set as desired. To sort the list click a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
medium-to-high-income earners. We created interactive maps to show where different US counties fall both in terms of overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, and where this inequality is concentrated through the more View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
specifically because of their shared gender, many female voters balked. Testing for gender backlash To probe when and why identity labels backfire, the research team visited a college campus four months before the 2016 US presidential... View Details
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy
therapies were in clinical trials, but none could treat his specific disease. Years later as a Blavatnik Fellow, the more she studied cancer and existing therapies, the more Zutshi wanted a new approach.“There are a lot of treatments in... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
employment at private equity-backed firms will go up or down even more dramatically,” Lerner says. Next step in the research Lerner and his colleagues are now drilling down into specific private equity firms to see what variation exists... View Details