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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
field, there is a critical need in project management for people with strong business skills." Ballou's work in Liberia also gave her a clearer sense of the role of business in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
committing to an approach that may need to fundamentally change—something that is harder to accomplish at scale. That said, the pursuit of coveted "network effects," with winner-take-all rewards to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
MBA students to connect with HBS alumni are all part of the latest EC enhancements designed to address the changing needs and interests of MBA students. Course Development... View Details
- November 2009
- Article
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarter's ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Market Dispersion; Decentralization; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry
Campbell, Dennis, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino. "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry." Accounting Review 84, no. 6 (November 2009): 1749–1779.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
By: Dennis Campbell
Many companies operate units which are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Customer Focus and Relationships; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry
Campbell, Dennis. "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-091, April 2008.
- Web
Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
scuba divers. Layton, p. 52. Thomas Layton writes that “Warfare, and its consequent disruption of normal maritime commerce, ensured a strong demand for fast vessels to evade British and French warships and sneak cargo into blockaded... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
delivery services should not be discounted too soon, according to HBS professor and marketing specialist John A. Deighton. As Deighton explained in the article "Who Wanted Webvan to Survive?" published last summer in The Boston Globe, the biggest fans View Details
- February 2016
- Article
Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions
By: Benjamin B. Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
Calculating the welfare implications of changes to economic policy or shocks to the economy requires economists to decide on a normative criterion. One way to make that decision is to elicit the relevant moral criteria from real-world policy choices, converting a... View Details
Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions." Journal of Monetary Economics 77 (February 2016): 30–47. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-119, June 2014.)
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS Association of Southern California has launched a series View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
a basis for collaboration and consensus, which is what one needs to focus on with a legislative branch that’s effectively tied. One of the considerations for any leader is: What is possible versus what would... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
responsible for documentation, research, and maintenance of shipwrecks, reefs, downed WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their... View Details
- Teaching
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Teaching Fellow for Advanced Quantitative Research Methods with Prof. Chris Winship (Doctoral Course) - 2013
(awarded Harvard University Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes, by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
Keywords: Familiarity; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-145, June 2009. (Revised August 2009, November 2009, April 2010, August 2010; revise and resubmit, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.)
- November 2014
- Case
Taryn Rose Launches Dresr: Street Marketing a Luxury Brand
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Marcel Saucet and Christine Snively
Serial entrepreneur and shoe designer Taryn Rose, M.D., prepared to launch a new e-commerce platform, Dresr, which would connect shoppers with tastemakers online. Dresr would bring the service element found in brick and mortar luxury stores into the online shopping... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-042, November 2016.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
not been as successful as originally envisioned, companies may be reluctant to allow research to be published at this time. To address this concern, we need to raise awareness of our research controls for... View Details
- February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)
By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
Ofek, Elie, and Margot Eiran. "From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 517-103, February 2017. (Revised December 2018.)