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- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
mechanism whereby price partitioning affects a consumer's perception of the secondary (i.e., non-focal) benefits derived from a transaction. Four experiments support the hypothesis that a partitioned price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
credit because they have been taught that access to credit is welfare promoting. This perception emerged from a historical coalition between commercial banks and NGOs that promoted credit as the solution to a range View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Treating environmental issues as business problems sounds straightforward, but it's not easy. The following assumptions, all of which are common in business thinking, make it difficult to reframe the issues. Environmental problems are,... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
field course offering taught by Professors Archie Jones, Henry McGee, and Jeff Bussgang and developed during the summer of 2020 in partnership with fellow classmates Allie O’Shea, Mickias Hailu, and Shani Carter. This course supported... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need for the workforce don't feel integrated or part of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
and white mothers were, who either worked full-time or stayed at home. The white stay-at-home mother was seen as the most hardworking, while the black stay-at-home mother was seen as the least hardworking. Livingston then presented findings on how race affects societal... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- January 2022
- Case
VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina
Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey, and Anjali Raina. "VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide." Harvard Business School Case 622-077, January 2022.
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
effort, assimilation success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which changing perceptions View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
implications for pay inequality and pay transparency Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54750 Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
aren't very helpful. Indeed, popular metrics such as customer satisfaction, acquisition, and retention have turned out to be very poor indicators of customers' true perceptions or the success View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the city of Boston, Massachusetts, show that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
AvigatorPhotographer Are Free Trade Notions Repeatedly Victim to Short-Term Thinking? Free trade and free markets are concepts to which many of us, given our training in economics, aspire. But they inevitably fall victim to the varied and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying health... View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
concluded on June 30 and the School will report on its achievements and impact in the December Alumni Bulletin. The Campaign had high aspirations from its inception. We aimed to increase engagement and participation among our alumni and the next generation View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
sufficiently broad to fulfill its mission or, on the contrary, whether it needed to be narrowed in order to eliminate organizational challenges and external perceptions of conflicts View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
controversial issues like civil rights and climate change? Two, in terms of consumer response, does CEO activism affect customer perceptions about the company? (They recently discussed the paper in the New... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
vulnerabilities that left Mexico exposed to a sudden change in investor appetite for Mexican securities in 1994. Political violence in Mexico and changes in monetary policy in the United States then led to radical changes in investor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne