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  • 23 Jan 2017
  • News

Helping Warli artists profit from their work

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Globalization and the Family Business

    As business becomes more global and competitive, many family companies are extending their operations through various means to remain competitive in their industries. Professor Davis is teaming with Professor Jon Martinez of Universidad de los Andes and Florence Tsai... View Details
    • October 2023
    • Article

    Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement

    By: David Delacrétaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
    Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly multidimensional) sizes of... View Details
    Keywords: Refugee Resettlement; Matching; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Matching With Contracts; Algorithms; Refugees; Market Design
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    • August 29, 2017
    • Article

    How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 billion by 2030. Among the enormous changes this will demand are new skills, attitudes, and behaviors. A five-year study of the global workforce at... View Details
    Keywords: Global Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Employees; Competency and Skills; Success
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    • August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Background Note

    A Note on Ethical Analysis

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    To engage in ethical analysis is to answer such questions as “What is the right thing to do?” “What does it mean to be a good person?” “How should I live my life?” Ethical analysis, on its own, is often not adequate for doing the right thing or being a good... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Framework; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

    By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
    We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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    • February 2001 (Revised March 2003)
    • Case

    ICICI (A)

    By: Bharat N. Anand, Nitin Nohria and John Pegg
    ICICI was the first Indian company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. This case is set in 1998, when the company had to decide whether to enter the retail credit segment of the Indian financial market. Although the retail credit sector presents attractive... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • March 2004
    • Article

    Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
    An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish institutions received police protection. Thus, this hideous event... View Details
    Keywords: Law Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Resource Allocation; National Security
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    • 25 Nov 2015
    • News

    HHL Awards Honorary Doctorate to Harvard Professor Stefan H. Thomke

    • 24 Jan 2018
    • News

    Economics in Central Banking Award 2018: BPP and PriceStats

    • 26 Nov 2017
    • News

    ‘Entrepreneurs here think technology can solve everything’

    • 17 Nov 2020
    • News

    High skills freelance economy surges as digital talent platforms help build new on-demand workforce.

    • 10 Jul 2024
    • Video

    Inequality in the Digital Age | An Interview with Kalinda Ukanwa from the University of Southern California

    • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
    Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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    Creating the Modern Financial System

    By: David A. Moss

    Creating the Modern Financial System offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial instruments and institutions worldwide. The premise of the course is that students will gain a richer and... View Details

    • 2008
    • Book

    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

    By: Niall Ferguson
    Niall Ferguson traces the historical evolution of the financial system, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls "Planet Finance." In doing so, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, from the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial History; Money; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Investment; Globalization
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    • February 2019 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation

    By: Antonio Davila
    Nick Sugimoto, CEO of Honda Innovations—the open innovation organization of Honda, has to decide how to extend his organization’s approach to innovation across the world. Honda Innovations dates back to 2000 when Honda created Honda Research Institute in Silicon... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Radical Innovation; Corporate Venturing; Corporate Innovation; Organization Structure; Management Control; Business Units; Disruption; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Auto Industry; San Francisco; Japan
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    • September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
    • Case

    Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

    By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
    Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry
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    • December 2000
    • Case

    Friona Industries, L.P.

    By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
    As the food industry becomes more sophisticated, and as genomics and other factors provide for quality control from the producers to the consumers in the food chain, the beef industry has been one of the last commodity systems to organize the vertical systems to... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Food; Management Systems; Supply and Industry; Performance Consistency; Quality; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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