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  • 09 May 2014
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MOOCs’ disruption is only beginning

  • 03 Nov 2016
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Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu
  • 26 May 2015
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Do Your Clothes Matter? The 'Casualization of American Life"

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Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Do We See the Same Hierarchy? Status Disagreement in Multicultural Teams and Its Impact on Team Performance

By: Catarina Fernandes and Sujin Jang
This paper develops and tests a theory of status disagreement in multicultural teams. We posit that, in multicultural teams, the diversity of members’ cultural backgrounds will lead to implicit disagreements about who has how much status in the team. More specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Multicultural Teams; Team Performance; Team Diversity; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Performance
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Fernandes, Catarina, and Sujin Jang. "Do We See the Same Hierarchy? Status Disagreement in Multicultural Teams and Its Impact on Team Performance." Working Paper, 2018. (Revise and resubmit, Academy of Management Journal.)
  • October 2000
  • Case

CDNow (A)

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Christina Akers and Howard Reitz
With CDnow's acquisition of N2K's Music Boulevard web site, this case deals with capturing value in the music industry with online sales. CDnow has the advantage of being one of the exclusive music online retailers on AOL but faces fierce competition from Amazon.com.... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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Bradley, Stephen P., Christina Akers, and Howard Reitz. "CDNow (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-046, October 2000.
  • 2008
  • Casebook

The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

By: Rawi Abdelal
This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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Abdelal, Rawi, ed. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2008.
  • May 2017
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ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details
Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers." Harvard Business School Case 117-012, May 2017.
  • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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Developing Leaders

By: Boris Groysberg and Amanda Cowen
Provides an overview of leadership development for the manager charged with developing a single individual or corporate leadership program. Introduces a framework for understanding the components of developmental experiences and then applies it to a range of... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs
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Groysberg, Boris, and Amanda Cowen. "Developing Leaders." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-015, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
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Weak Corporate Insolvency Rules: The Missing Driver of Zombie Lending

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
"Zombie lending"—lending to less-productive firms at subsidized rates—can help banks with misaligned incentives in the short run, but it prolongs economic downturns. We propose that inefficient resolution of insolvency is a significant contributor to this problem. We... View Details
Keywords: Zombie Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Weak Corporate Insolvency Rules: The Missing Driver of Zombie Lending." AEA Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 2022): 516–520.
  • November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
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Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion

By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry
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Ton, Zeynep, Elena Corsi, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 610-042, November 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
  • June 2001
  • Case

Bang Networks- The First Customer (A)

By: Jay O. Light and Mary N. Caravella
In November 2000, six-month-old start-up Bang Networks is preparing a proposal for its first paid subscription contract. The recent MBA founders of the new San Francisco--based company believe they have a unique new solution for effective delivery of real-time Web... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation Tactics; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Value Creation; Negotiation Preparation; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco
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Light, Jay O., and Mary N. Caravella. "Bang Networks- The First Customer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 201-111, June 2001.
  • August 1974 (Revised March 1986)
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Architects Collaborative, Inc.

Although internationally recognized for quality design, the collaborative's billings have been on a plateau for four years and they are losing jobs to architects with sophisticated marketing practices. The main issue is how marketing can be integrated into a design... View Details
Keywords: Design; Marketing Strategy; Creativity; Service Industry
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Wiechmann, Ulrich E., and Ralph Biggadike. "Architects Collaborative, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 575-016, August 1974. (Revised March 1986.)
  • October 1990 (Revised April 1998)
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John Smithers at Sigtek

Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Change Management; Performance
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Jick, Todd D. "John Smithers at Sigtek." Harvard Business School Case 491-035, October 1990. (Revised April 1998.)
  • November 2014
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993—termed as High Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Accountability; Reporting; Corporate Governance; Investor Clientele; Investor Communication; Stock Market; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; United States
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Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim. "The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance." Management Science 60, no. 11 (November 2014): 2835–2857.
  • January–February 2018
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Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Keywords: Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Social Impact; Business Strategy; Shared Value; Impact Investing; Inequality; Corporate Governance; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Execution; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment
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Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 127–133.
  • 01 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Fernando de la Rua, the President of Argentina noted, "This is an historic day," about the opening of the School's new Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. Speaking as guest of honor at the Center's inaugural dinner on August 3rd at the Park Hyatt... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 2006
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IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance

By: Gregory S. Miller, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part of the firm's planning and operational activities. This information is generated as a portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Information Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Planning
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Miller, Gregory S., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Anders Sjoman. "IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance." Harvard Business School Case 107-026, September 2006.
  • January 2010
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Open vs. Closed Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Divergence

By: Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
When is open innovation superior to closed innovation? Through a formal simulation model, we show that an open approach to innovation allows the firm to discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. However, when partners... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Partners and Partnerships; Goals and Objectives; Cost vs Benefits; Integration; Product
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Almirall, Esteve, and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell. "Open vs. Closed Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Divergence." Academy of Management Review 35, no. 1 (January 2010): 27–47.
  • 14 Jun 2021
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