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The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior
By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Media; News; Communication Strategy; Reputation
Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese. "The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior." Journal of Financial Economics 129, no. 1 (July 2018): 184–202.
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Sidestepping Some of the Partisan Debate: An Interview with Max Stier
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Whereas some organizational leaders are engaging in CEO activism by speaking out on social and political issues not directly related to their bottom line, some leaders want to avoid doing so. Some, in fact, hold neutrality as a core component of their strategy. But... View Details
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "Sidestepping Some of the Partisan Debate: An Interview with Max Stier." Special Issue on HBR Big Idea: Leadership in a Hot-Button World. Harvard Business Review (website) (March–April 2018).
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
interest in this case than in antitrust cases of the past? Unlike communications companies whose practices generate consumer ire, Google’s services, like many on the internet, are perceived as both “free” (although Shoshanna Zuboff in her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit. Valley's research focuses on how negotiations can be significantly affected by how well the parties know and trust one another and by the medium they use to communicate — in person, by... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group
Lucent Technologies' New Ventures Group has created innovative ways to commercialize Bell Labs research. The success of this approach now forces the group to evaluate whether to stay inside Bell Labs or become an external venture capitalist group. View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Commercialization; Research; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Anthony Massaro. "Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group." Harvard Business School Case 601-102, June 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
money in New York, but going home where I care about the communities that are going to see the impact of the work that I'm doing. The state of Maine is facing some real, serious challenges. We have a demographics challenge; we have the... View Details
- August 1992
- Case
Procter & Gamble: What's the Story?
By: Ellen D. Herman and Stephen A. Greyser
Herman, Ellen D., and Stephen A. Greyser. "Procter & Gamble: What's the Story?" Harvard Business School Case 593-013, August 1992.
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters," practiced increasingly by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
the importance of cross-institutional collaboration, the problems of political processes, and the strategies needed to gain community involvement in inner-city economic development. This case will soon be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
be a library of cases for use by communities coping with future disasters. “The idea is that we’d be able to fly in and talk to local business leaders and say, ‘These are some things that folks in New Orleans found useful and that you... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- February 2022
- Case
Agora (A)
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
Agora was a civic technology (civic tech) startup founded by Elsa Sze, who wanted to enhance the connection between political officials and their constituents by facilitating virtual “town halls,” making underrepresented voices heard and benefiting elected and... View Details
Keywords: Civic Technology; Government Administration; Conferences; Business Startups; Business Strategy
Hyde, Lindsay N., Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Tom Quinn. "Agora (A)." Harvard Business School Case 822-022, February 2022.
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Olympic Park Legacy Company. Her education and experience complemented Blumkin's, as did her roots across the river in Mamaroneck, in New York's Westchester County. Blumkin immediately signed Lehrer as manager of communications and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
$1,550 for the family in less than 48 hours. “It was a truly rewarding and meaningful experience for both of us,” said Simmons. SmallCanBeBig.org, created by Boathouse Group, a Boston communications firm led by president John Connors (PMD... View Details
- September 2016
- Article
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the... View Details
Keywords: Research Questions; Relevance; Rigor; Practice-based Research; Research; Communication; Media; Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1493–1505. (Sparked a Working Knowledge article about research relevance.)
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by View Details