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  • September 22, 2023
  • Article

How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Oliver Jay
Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. PLG works, at least at... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Network Effects; Business Strategy
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences

By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

Africa and the Middle East, and to make deals with these countries that they hope will stabilize the region and stabilize refugee flows. KF: One thing Turkey is coming to terms with is the fact that it can’t insulate itself from diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities

and grateful to those who have been and continue to be involved-in small and large ways. Together, we are leveraging the power of the global HBS community. “Across the arc of your life, there View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes

By: Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul A. Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and... View Details
Keywords: Outcome or Result; Higher Education; Personal Development and Career; Human Capital
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  • 2014
  • Book

Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China
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  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

people will strive to complete arbitrary sets even when there’s a risk associated. In another study, 201 participants had the opportunity to accept up to four online gambling opportunities, with the chance View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

fundraising for its future. If the farm can produce 30 tons of tomatoes per hectare at a cost of $124 per ton, Tomato Jos will be ready to expand its smallholder program and... View Details
Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • Article

Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments

By: Maryam Kouchaki, Christopher Oveis and F. Gino
The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Emotions
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Srivatsa Krishna "I believe my life will have value only if it can add value to the lives of others." Currently: on sabbatical from the Indian Administrative Service, India's elite top management civil... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 28 Apr 2020
  • News

Coronavirus apps: the risk of slipping into a surveillance state

  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Where the Cloud Rests: The Location Strategies of Data Centers

By: Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang
This study provides an analysis of the entry strategies of third-party data centers in the United States. We examine the market before the pandemic in 2018 and 2019, when supply and demand for data services were geographically stable. We compare with the entry... View Details
Keywords: Cloud Computing; Location Strategies; Data Centers; Information Infrastructure
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  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

today what business they are in, and you will still get too many answering in terms of products or services. This practice still exists more than five decades after the legendary Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

will garner the best solutions from innovators if they let them choose whether to work as solo competitors or whether to work on a team. "Self-selection is the main driver of effort gains in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • News

The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: Nancy Koehn Looks into the Abyss

  • June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

The Perfect CEO

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
A venture capitalist must decide among three highly qualified candidates to be CEO of a start-up software company. Each has unique strengths and weaknesses and will take the company in very different directions. Whom should he recommend to the board? View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Leadership Style
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 03 Feb 2015
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The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

Mr. Wheeler presents a fresh and dynamic approach to negotiation, one that challenges the static assumptions of win-win and hard-bargaining models. The simple truth is that negotiation cannot be scripted and people cannot dictate what other parties will say or do any... View Details
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Use of Harvard Name & Logo | About

the Trademark Office will review the request in 7-10 business days. (Harvard Business School Marketing & Communications provides the “local approval” required in step 2 of the process.) Executive Education... View Details