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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

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 racial biases on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009-2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The racial funding gap... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Immigration; Public Opinion
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    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
    • 02 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Religion, Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

    Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
    • 2015
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Whelan and the Student Loan Crisis (B)

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Grace Sza-Hua Chen and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    Bob Whelan developed an idea with partners that was a seed before his fellowship year and addressed a significant national challenge - college financing - with a creative concept and experience from his years in investment banking. His nonprofit was called 13th Avenue... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Higher Education; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Leading Change; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 10 Jul 2023
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

    generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

    consultant, I wanted to test whether a strategy role in an implementing organization is a better fit for me. I also knew that I have a passion for social impact, but had questions about the reality of working full-time for an... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

    By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
    This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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    • 06 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

    to make sure that listeners were really paying attention to the screen, they were given a financial incentive to remember as many commercials as they could. “There’s a lot of social pressure to convey we are listening—we smile and nod,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 23 Oct 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Decarbonization Factors

    Keywords: by Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington, and Hui (Stacie) Wang
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Organizational Responses to Product Cycles

    By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
    Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis. How do firms manage these changes? We use granular daily data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new... View Details
    Keywords: Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Production; Product; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Argentina
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    • 2016
    • Article

    Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and political discourse. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Political Discourse; Public Engagement; Higher Education; Social Media
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    • December 2004 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute to sustainable development. Its initiatives focus first on coffee, cocoa, and milk. Nestle managers assert that the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

    By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
    Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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    • July 2003
    • Case

    CARE USA

    By: John A. Quelch
    CARE USA is spearheading a rebranding process for the organization. Examines the process and components of the rebranding strategy and its impact on CARE USA's direct mail strategy. Includes color exhibits. View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; United States
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    Featured Topics - Faculty & Research

    History Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Entrepreneurship Global Health Care Impact Investments Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Business in Global Society Institute for Strategy... View Details
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    Creating Emerging Markets (Business History)

    By: Tarun Khanna

    Professor Tarun Khanna is faculty co-chair of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) Project. The project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East over recent decades.... View Details

    • 16 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16

    channel is the most relevant one. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2419522 Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We study the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Mar 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

    Brian Hollins (MBA 2021) spent six years at Goldman Sachs prior to HBS focused on venture capital and growth equity investing for the firm. He will be joining Lightspeed Venture Partners this summer, and is a co-Founder of BLCKVC, a platform to help launch and View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

    and hold an expansive definition of social enterprise.” Marlíse Arellano-Sutton. Marlíse comes from Boston Children's Hospital’s Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator, where she led sourcing, launch, and View Details
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    can we–and must we–reimagine our approaches to finance to accomplish our climate goals? This session will demonstrate how financiers along the capital stack are examining climate risk, return, and opportunity to seed, pilot, and scale a... View Details