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    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.... View Details

    • 13 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

    forthcoming issue of American Journal of Sociology. Why M&A prompts promotions Zhang analyzed 37,343 mergers and acquisitions that occurred between 1971 and 2015, using data from View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 17 Dec 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

    levels of the company, particularly from the CEO. Evaluate the company's other start-up efforts and how it handled projects that failed in some... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

    increasing the participation of diverse voices in the health care technology space. To address top of the funnel... View Details
    • Web

    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    production. 9 AISI was a client of the preeminent PR firm Hill & Knowlton. The institute’s public relations efforts focused not only on increased... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Smaller than We Thought? The Effect of Automatic Savings Policies

    By: James J. Choi, David Laibson, Jordan Cammarota, Richard Lombardo and John Beshears
    Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on retirement savings. Our analysis of 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before matching contributions... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Saving; Retirement; Behavioral Finance; Compensation and Benefits
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    Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

    By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
    Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
    Keywords: Decision Mechanisms; Game Theory; Economics
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    • 17 Oct 2016
    • News

    Does China deserve a reputation as the land of copycats?

    • 17 Oct 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

    party, regardless of whether they are true—or even especially because they are untrue. “The theory is that the best way to signal your loyalty to your political party is to... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
    • Supplement

    The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

    By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
    This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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    • 17 Dec 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

    the large team of researchers looking at COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, prompting changes for practitioners and human resources... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 10 Nov 2008
    • Research Event

    Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

    capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Attenuating Effect of Banking Relationships on Credit Market Disruption

    By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Mike Horia Teodorescu
    This article examines how the relationship between banks and corporations moderates the effect of credit market disruptions. The 2008-09 financial crisis led to a dramatic restriction in the supply of credit to corporations via the syndicated loan market... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Relationships; Financial Markets; System Shocks; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

    By: Andrew A. King and Karim R. Lakhani
    Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of both external knowledge and internal inventiveness. In this paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Capacity; Technology Adoption
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    • 05 Jul 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

    supply of “safety stock” was the order of the day for those using slower forms of transportation. "The result,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
    • 01 Oct 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

    Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
    • 19 Sep 2012
    • News

    The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

    • February 2003
    • Article

    Which Ties Matter When? The Contingent Effects of Interorganizational Partnerships on IPO Success

    By: Ranjay Gulati and M. Higgins
    This paper investigates the contingent value of interorganizational relationships at the time of a young firm's initial public offering (IPO). We compare the signaling value to young firms of having ties with two types of interorganizational partnerships: endorsement... View Details
    Keywords: Interorganizatonal Relationships; Networks; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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    • 12 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

    he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard

      Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

      We show that business development companies (BDCs) — closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms — are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details