Difference In Differences - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020

Diverse Perspectives Series: Women in Entrepreneurship

Please join faculty member Allison Mnookin as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the entrepreneurship space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role View Details

24 May 2021

Women in Industry Series: Social Enterprise

Please join Margot Dushin, Director of Programs at the Social Enterprise Initiative, as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the social enterprise space. Learn about their experiences... View Details

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context

I was born and raised in Dakar, Senegal and moved to the United States for high school and college. Upon graduating from Northwestern University, I moved to Dubai and worked as a Management Consultant. I spent five years working with... View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Learning about the science in beauty

different kinds of exfoliators (physical, chemical and enzymes)? Among my pictures is one of me smelling an empty glass – that was during the Fragrance class where we learned to identify different notes and... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters

approaches work? I think the answer will be a hybrid model, with different options for different viewers. What’s next in media? “The continued rise of on-demand consumption, as... View Details

Keywords: Laura Martin (MBA 1983) , entertainment and internet analyst, Needham & Company

09 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

Independent Projects (IPs) for academic credit. IPs can be done individually or in teams, and can take on a variety of different formats (e.g. research paper, writing a case study, or doing a consulting... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

expected to grow and evolve in coming years. This policy revises and clarifies the School’s previous policy on faculty involvement in student ventures and extends it to cover student involvement View Details

30 Mar 2017
News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

flow from the moment. If something was troubling me, I would try different ways of exploring it, et cetera, in my own mind before the meetings. But at the meetings, the intent is at those meetings to learn.... View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

conversations in the Zoom chat, course Slack, and small discussion groups were very different by the end of the module. Ensuring that all first-year MPPs are operating from a consistent fact base on race and... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

January 2015 (Revised December 2015)
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Mauboussin

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Audrey Azoulay

Mauboussin is a French jewelry brand founded in 1827 in Paris. In the 1920s, the company earned a huge notoriety for capturing the aesthetic and emotional dimension of the Art Deco movement in its design and gained a worldwide reputation for innovation and expertise in... View Details

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2023
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The Irredeemability of the Past: Determinants of Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Settings

By: Kristen Kao, Kristin Fabbe and Michael Bang Petersen

In the aftermath of violent conflict, identifying former enemy collaborators versus innocent bystanders forced to flee violence is difficult. In post-conflict settings, internally displaced persons (IDPs) risk becoming stigmatized and face difficulties... View Details

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; War; Refugees; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Public Opinion; Lawfulness; Iraq

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The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries

By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng

Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; China

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21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

08 Dec 2022
HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

that might be different from other forms of political corporate engagement,” says Hsieh, about the challenges of maintaining customers’ trust in an international fishbowl. A pressure play Based View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning

Keywords: by Rogelio Oliva & Noel Watson

06 Dec 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

irreparably torn, unable to build consensus to solve the country’s most pressing social and economic problems? That is a danger, Kempf warns, especially since research shows people are most likely to encounter others with different... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

abandon holes that deviated too much, discouraging as that might be. As they learned more about the search challenge, the odds of success diminished further, with one driller putting it at less than 1%. In this extreme story, View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

2021
Working Paper

Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah

Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details

Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication

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