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  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

that it’s time for platforms to admit defeat when it comes to trying to flag, edit, or block misinformation on their sites. Instead, they should focus on curtailing specific information that can lead to direct harm, such as hate speech or... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Votorantim: Uniting Family and Business Across Generations

By: Christina R. Wing, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Over a 105-year span, the Ermírio de Moraes family built Votorantim, one of Latin America’s largest industrial conglomerates, and among Brazil’s topmost businesses, also credited for helping “build” the country over decades. By early 2023, Votorantim included... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

“linguistic-cultural expats” who, while neither native to the lingua franca nor the organization’s home culture, surprisingly have the easiest time adjusting to language changes. Neeley demonstrates that language can serve as the conduit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Program

High Potentials Leadership Program

session application due: 27 SEP 2024 Applications submitted after the due date will be considered on an individual basis and may not be processed in time to grant admission. Read More To apply, you will submit: The application, telling us... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households

Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • News

Why Americans have chosen to pay income tax

  • 05 Apr 2011
  • News

Why Does Criticism Seem More Effective than Praise?

  • 21 Jul 2020
  • News

Balancing Oxford’s Business School: More Women, More Africans

    Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make it

    Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy J.C.... View Details
    • 12 Apr 2017
    • Blog Post

    2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

    Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience has been made possible by this... View Details
    • September 2000 (Revised November 2000)
    • Case

    Panda Management Company, Inc.

    Panda Management Co. is the largest Chinese restaurant chain in the United States. At the time of the case, Panda is facing multiple problems in operations, mostly stemming from rapid growth, and must choose a path for expansion. View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Service Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • October 2000
    • Background Note

    Sustaining Value

    By: Robert J. Dolan
    Describes the challenges a firm faces in building and sustaining a value proposition over time. Describes major ways in which the marketing environment changes over time and the methods a firm can use to protect its market position. View Details
    Keywords: Price; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Situation or Environment
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    • 10 Nov 2020
    • News

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter tells Worcester Regional Research Bureau members success beyond COVID relies on focusing ‘outside the building’

      Himabindu Lakkaraju

      Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on... View Details

      • June 2008
      • Case

      Threadless: The Business of Community

      By: Karim R. Lakhani and Zahra Kanji
      Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs for t-shirts and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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      • 2020
      • Article

      Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion

      By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
      We formulate the problem of matrix completion with and without side information as a non-convex optimization problem. We design fastImpute based on non-convex gradient descent and show it converges to a global minimum that is guaranteed to recover closely the... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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      • 29 Mar 2020
      • News

      Why picking a winning bold business is so risky

      • 11 Oct 2016
      • Blog Post

      Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

      genuine passion for food and a very customer-centric mindset. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS?On-campus interviews is what we find most successful. We love investing View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
      • December 2001
      • Case

      Cybersettle

      By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
      Cybersettle's management faced a dilemma: How could they turn their company, which provided confidential online settlement services for insurance claims, into a profitable enterprise? Having started during the heady days of Internet "dot-com fever," the company now had... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Internet; Insurance Industry
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      • 25 Apr 2011
      • News

      What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better