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  • April 2009 (Revised March 2014)
  • Teaching Note

Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo (A) and (B)

By: Noam T. Wasserman
Teaching Note for [809088]. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Strategy; Groups and Teams; Blogs; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Governing and Advisory Boards; Projects; Entrepreneurship
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  • October 1989 (Revised October 1992)
  • Case

Smoke Wars: The Case for and Against the Cigarette Industry

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Describes the arguments for and against the tobacco industry. With the per capita demand for cigarettes steadily declining by 2% to 3% every year, the tobacco companies have been using various approaches to stem the tide. Many such moves, however, have come under... View Details
Keywords: Debates; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Performance; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing jobs and alleviating poverty by building new businesses

Otso Fristrom (MBA 2008) is investing in businesses with a goal of providing jobs and alleviating poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 26 Mar 2015
  • News

Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings

environment have on where and how you live.” Gilbane is on the board of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into a stunning green space with hiking View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • November 2013 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee

By: Allen Grossman, J. Puckett and Nithya Vaduganathan

In 2010 the Memphis City School District merged with the neighboring Shelby County School system under the supervision of a single board of education and superintendent. It promised much more than just administrative synergies—it was an opportunity to change a... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Public Education; Business Engagement; Public Sector; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; Tennessee
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  • 28 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

the company norms and culture.” Actively solicit feedback and listen to members of your community about their lived experience so that these practices are part of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • October 2010
  • Article

Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance

By: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Andy J. Yap
Humans and other animals express power through open, expansive postures and powerlessness through closed, constrictive postures. But can these postures actually cause power? As predicted, results revealed that posing in high-power (vs. low-power) nonverbal displays... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • June 1999 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

The National Hockey League's New Television Contract for 2004 and Beyond

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Elizabeth (Lisa) Smyth
The National Hockey League (NHL) has negotiated a new television contract at record rights-fee levels for hockey. The NHL will be shifting its principal television partner from Fox to ESPN/ABC. Students are asked to analyze the current and future contracts in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Television Entertainment; Contracts; Marketing Communications; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • August 2009
  • Article

Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer

By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by comparing the purchases online grocery customers make when redeeming $10-off coupons with the purchases they make without coupons. Controlling for customer fixed effects and other variables, we... View Details
Keywords: Mental Accounting; Windfalls; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Coupons; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Cognition and Thinking; Retail Industry
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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  • Research Summary

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior
  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS

and what makes HBS such a special place. I feel extremely lucky to have been a part of this event and look forward to being involved in the broader Health Care Community of HBS... View Details
  • Web

Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About

Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff members at the School use social media in a variety of capacities, including: related to their roles as member of the HBS View Details
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

of novel consumer goods—ready-made shirts, watches, Japanned fans, celluloid baby rattles, Swiss buttermilk soap, and much more. Heinz could also sense that the pace of urban life was quickening, spurred on by transportation View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

and the role of enterprise communication in managing these forces. The chapter includes a discussion of the most relevant findings from the annual Edelman Trust Barometer, a bellwether of measuring trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020

Diverse Perspectives Series: Admissions Q&A with AASU and LASO

Hear from members of the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) as they answer questions about the MBA experience, culture, and View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • Blog Post

VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

School,” said Barbara Rauber, Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2014 and Co-President of the Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference. “It is an honor to welcome the leading members of the private equity View Details
  • Web

4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA

4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities 4.0 General Policies University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities The central functions of an academic View Details