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    LabCDMX: Experiment 50

    There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the... View Details
    • October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Keystone XL Pipeline

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor
    On January 18, 2012, President Obama rejected TransCanada's application for a "national interest" determination to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL was a 1,700 mile long, 36-inch diameter pipeline to transport 1.1 million barrels a day of... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Petroleum; Environmentalism; United States; Oil Prices; National Security; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Canada; United States
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    • 2000
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry

    By: Malcolm Baker
    I develop a model in which career concerns lead to inefficient reinvestment decisions. Managers have incentives to inflate interim returns by continuing bad projects and delaying write-offs. In the venture capital industry, the syndication of follow-on investments can... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Valuation; Venture Capital; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Quality
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    • January 2025
    • Article

    Everyone Steps Back?: The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators When Migration Fear Is High

    By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr, Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz
    We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdfunding; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Immigration; Public Opinion
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    • September 26, 2024
    • Article

    A Better Way to Measure Social Impact

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Constance Spitzer
    All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Impact Investment; Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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    • October 2023
    • Article

    Product Variety, the Cost of Living, and Welfare Across Countries

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Robert C. Feenstra and Robert Inklaar
    We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compute the cost of living and welfare across 47 countries, and compare these to conventional measures of prices and real consumption from the International Comparisons Project (ICP). The cost of living is inferred... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade
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    • July 2003 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Singapore Airlines: Customer Service Innovation

    By: Rohit Deshpande and Hal Hogan
    The members of Singapore Airlines' (SIA) management committee needs to decide whether to cancel the implementation of the new lie-flat seats in business class after the effects of the global recession on the travel industry in September 2001. SIA was considered the... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Air Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Singapore
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    • June 1981 (Revised May 1988)
    • Case

    L.L. Bean, Inc.: Corporate Strategy

    By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
    L.L. Bean, Inc., a Maine-based manufacturer and mail-order retailer of sporting goods and apparel, has grown from $3 million in sales (1967) to over $120 million (1980). Current projections predict an annual compounded growth of 25% through 1985. Management must decide... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Production; Quality; Sales; Situation or Environment; Corporate Strategy; Internet and the Web; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 31 Jul 2012
    • News

    Two Harvard Business School Teams Win Chef Ferran Adrià's Global Ideas Challenge Competition

    • 24 Jan 2018
    • News

    Economics in Central Banking Award 2018: BPP and PriceStats

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    Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments

    By: Alan D. MacCormack
    A consistent finding in many studies of innovation is the repeated failure of established firms when faced with radical changes in their core markets or technologies. Professor MacCormack's research takes the view that many of these failures can be attributed to the... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University

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    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (MBA)

    By: Anita Elberse
    This second-year MBA course is primarily designed for students pursuing a career in the entertainment, media and sports sectors -- including film, television, music, publishing, video games, the performing arts, sports, fashion, and advertising -- or who plan to work... View Details

      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
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      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

      Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

      • June 2010
      • Article

      Leadership Competencies for Implementing Planned Organizational Change

      By: Julie Battilana, Mattia Gilmartin, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Jeffrey A. Alexander
      This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change literatures by exploring the relationship between managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Planning; Relationships; Business Processes; Projects; Theory; Change; Behavior; Health Industry; United Kingdom
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      About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      in 2001, a second Porter Prize expanded to India in 2012. The Porter Prize for Excellence in CSV (South Korea) and the Value Based Healthcare Prize were both established in 2014. Porter Prize Japan Porter Prize South Korea Porter Prize India Value Based Healthcare... View Details
      • 31 Oct 2023
      • HBS Case

      Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

      associate feeling pressed for time and relying on a shortcut to make a deadline is not new, Fubini says. “The longer you wait on something, the worse it is going to be in terms of gaining absolution.” He remembers a time when he realized one of his assumptions about a... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
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      Apply to PRIMO - Doctoral

      not be negatively impacted if choosing not to answer one or any of these questions. Top applicants will interview with program staff. The first round of interviews will be an opportunity for applicants to learn more about specific View Details
      • 23 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

      understand why they’re not showing up?” says Fuller, who co-chairs the Project on the Workforce at Harvard. The good news: As more leaders move into the sandwich generation and care for aging parents while raising children, the more... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin