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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Does America Care About Care? Not Enough
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
innovation outcomes, and in many ways. Here are three: Knowledge is shared and then recombined. Knowledge is transferred from the home countries of the migrants to the US, we found in a study we did with data from US pharmaceutical...
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by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
which bloomed into a children’s book that various industry executives found intriguing. The novel and screenplay followed. How is Forby Entertainment different from other production companies and how do you see this as a competitive...
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Robert Bochnak
- Research Summary
Thin Slices of Groups [Under Review]
In this paper with Jeff Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Miloslavsky, we extend research on “thin slices” by testing and determining that perceivers are able to accurately judge the effectiveness of small, task-performing groups... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria
By: Caroline Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
In 2014, Ifeoma Fafunwa, an award-winning playwright and director, founded iOpenEye, a commercial production company dedicated to driving social change through performance art. iOpenEye’s flagship theatrical production was called “Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True,”...
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Theatre;
Social Change;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Enterprise;
Arts;
Entertainment;
Social Issues;
Health Pandemics;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Model;
Nigeria
Elkins, Caroline, Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 321-111, January 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
BulkWhiz: Negotiating as a Startup Founder in the UAE
By: Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley and Alpana Thapar
This case follows Amira Rashad as she founds BulkWhiz, a Dubai-based buy-in-bulk grocery delivery platform. Following its launch in September 2017, BulkWhiz experiences rapid growth of 30 percent per month in the United Arab Emirates. Despite this initial success,...
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Entrepreneurial Management;
Start-ups;
Startup;
Female Entrepreneur;
Technology;
Decision-making;
Negotiations;
Co-founders;
Fundraising;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Management;
Internet and the Web;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Making;
Negotiation;
Expansion;
E-commerce;
Middle East;
United Arab Emirates
Coffman, Katherine, Christine Exley, and Alpana Thapar. "BulkWhiz: Negotiating as a Startup Founder in the UAE." Harvard Business School Case 919-004, October 2018. (Revised July 2019.)
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
On April 3, 2013, Hani Barhoush and Oscar Fahlgren of Mubadala Capital (“Mubadala”) considered how to salvage Mubadala’s $2 billion preferred equity investment of a 5.63% stake in the EBX Group. At the time, EBX was the holding company of a myriad of subsidiaries and...
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- 2010
- Chapter
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- January 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Quantum Corporation: eSupplyChain Group
The eSupplyChain group has been recently formed with Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group to evaluate Internet/IT-based approaches to improving supply chain performance. The Hard Disk Drive Group has endured several quarters of poor financial performance and has...
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Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Supply Chain Management;
Business Strategy
McAfee, Andrew P., and Gregory Bounds. "Quantum Corporation: eSupplyChain Group." Harvard Business School Case 601-099, January 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- December 2007
- Article
On the Robustness of the Winner's Curse Phenomenon
By: B. Grosskopf, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and M. H. Bazerman
We set out to find ways to help decision makers overcome the "winner's curse," a phenomenon commonly observed in asymmetric information bargaining situations, and instead found strong support for its robustness. In a series of manipulations of the "Acquiring a Company...
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Grosskopf, B., Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and M. H. Bazerman. "On the Robustness of the Winner's Curse Phenomenon." Theory and Decision 63, no. 4 (December 2007): 389–418.
- 24 Sep 2015
- News
3 Things Managers Should Be Doing Every Day
- 18 Feb 2015
- News
The National Front’s Post-Charlie Hebdo Moment
- 04 Mar 2015
- News
Patent trolls: Why no one likes them
- 14 Oct 2013
- News
Nothing to fear
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Why women fall into the negative feedback trap
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Will corporate tax cuts boost workers’ wages?
- September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Supergrid
Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland,...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance Capacity;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Industry;
Europe;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Supergrid." Harvard Business School Case 707-016, September 2006. (Revised November 2008.)