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  • June 2014
  • Article

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with, while the second is the dependence of... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Attitudes; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • December 2012
  • Article

Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney

By: Rakesh Khurana, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef and Yongxiang Wang
We estimate the market valuation of personal ties to Richard Cheney. Our proxies for personal ties are based on corporate board linkages that are prevalent in the network sociology literature. We consider a number of distinct political and personal events that either... View Details
Keywords: Event Analysis; Political Economy; Corruption; Networks; United States
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  • July 2012 (Revised August 2015)
  • Case

SOHO China: Design, Development, and Social Harmony

By: Arthur I Segel and Mukti Khaire
Founded in 1995 by Zhang Xin and her husband Mr. Pan Shiyi, SOHO China has developed into a world-class real estate development firm that has consistently delivered high-quality projects known for their cutting-edge designs and investment potential. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Organizational Culture; Leasing; Design; Asset Management; Salesforce Management; Sales; Real Estate Industry; China
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  • January 1993 (Revised April 1995)
  • Case

Fog of Business, The

In the mid-1980s, the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) was facing the decision whether to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets, following the ending of NutraSweet's patents there. A major question facing HSC was whether NutraSweet would respond to entry in an... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; United States; Europe
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    Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma

    by O’Reilly, C. & Tushman, M. L. 2016. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed; think of Blockbuster, Kodak, or RadioShack. When we read about their demise, it often seems inevitable—a... View Details

      Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook

      The 5th edition of Lerner's Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook continues to present the important historical cases of private equity while incorporating a number of new relevant and timely cases from previous best-selling issues. It... View Details
      • 16 Jun 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

      sticker shock? 1. Understand Your Customers. There are at least four ways in which customers can respond to higher gas prices: downgrade from premium to regular; take fewer trips by car, consolidate errands, switch to public transportation; take the same View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch
      • 10 Jan 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

      happy they were in the last 24 hours. The researchers found that, in addition to the amount of time interacting with people, happiness was also associated with the number and type of different people they interacted with. [div... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • Web

      Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      patient care plans, and process improvements aimed to improve results and control cost. In designing an IPU there are a number of additional essential elements that represent the software of IPUs. From a design perspective, there needs to... View Details
      • Web

      Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      patient experiences in the course of their care. Since its introduction, TDABC has been tested in many delivery settings worldwide resulting in cost savings and efficiencies in many organizations and resulting increasing numbers of peer... View Details
      • Web

      Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      economic geography and has become the standard in the U.S., Europe, and a growing number of other countries. His theories are widely applied by both government policymakers and economic development practitioners globally. Since 2011, as... View Details
      • 01 May 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

      overtake Apple and Samsung in market share within three to five years, while maintaining healthy profits. This task seemed particularly daunting given the difficulties the company had encountered in penetrating the lucrative U.S. market. What would it take for Huawei... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      campus plan in the 1920s (a number of years after the School’s founding in 1908) and has since grown to more than 35. Take a historical walking tour of the campus’s main buildings, with anecdotes and explanations galore. Who was HBS’s... View Details
      • 21 Nov 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

      curbing spending habits just as the number of defaults on BNPL loans creep higher. Add in a potential recession and the authors question whether the model might prove to be riskier for consumers, investors, and retailers in the future.... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
      • 11 Feb 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

      bus driver. She'd even stopped riding on his bus and got on by accident. She'd been to a number of civil rights training programs. After she was arrested, the people in the civil rights movement sat down and asked themselves, "Is... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

      of innovation as a process of “creative destruction.” Building on our intellectual roots, our scholars come from disciplines including economics, finance, sociology, strategy, business history, management, and social entrepreneurship. A View Details
      • 2025
      • Chapter

      Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills

      By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson
      We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details
      Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure
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      • 12 Apr 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

      them with a premium “who likes you” feature. The control group couldn’t see their potential paramours, only their number of swipes. However, the test group would enjoy a reveal after one month, unblurring the photo of each user who... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 10 Dec 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

      whistleblowers is to compensate them financially for the costs they incur. We also found that cash-for-information regimes do not increase the number of frivolous tips filed with regulators or change the probability that the employee... View Details
      Keywords: by April White
      • 18 Jun 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

      people agree with the existence of non-binary gender identity—with the most common response, “strong agreement,” at 30 percent. The second-most frequent response, however, was “strong disagreement,” at 15 percent, representing a large View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding