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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
  • 21 Jan 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects

Keywords: by Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Stock Price Fragility

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & David Thesmar
  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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  • March 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • November 2005 (Revised February 2006)
  • Module Note

Rethinking Branding

By: Youngme E. Moon
The classical branding paradigm assumes that brands should be built to last and that the role of the brand manager is to protect the long-term sustainability of the brand. Outlines the structure and content of an eight-session module that offers a more expansive... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding
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  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

have proactively sought out minority funds to invest in. “Those are two ideas that aren't hugely expensive, which don't require all sorts of fancy legislation, but that could potentially make a big difference,” says Lerner. You Might Also... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable? Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Recovering from the Need to Achieve Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Unsplash/Kristopher... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

values to stakeholders—and be willing to change their perspectives when challenged. “You have to constantly re-evaluate your position in life,” McGee says. Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Profile

Thomaz Galvao

public and private resources. Ultimately, our training model may be online, in-person, or a hybrid of the two. We hope to understand how to customize the idea for own country.” If the testing is successful, Thomaz would like to pursue the... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • Web

Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether and how “master’s tools”... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/130331-OdeskDiaspora.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 613-083 Recorded Future: Analyzing Internet Ideas About What Comes Next Recorded Future is a "big data" startup... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

platform for purpose.” “The beauty industry is a $500 billion industry that's been built to make women feel that they should look a certain way or feel a certain way. We are looking to turn that on its head and give voice to the idea that... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

the world at large. Their ideas recently appeared in the article Humanizing Strategy in the journal Long Range Planning. Here, Takeuchi explains how business leaders can use the six practices to guide their own self-improvement efforts in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

or—indeed—female. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing a book on the origins and growth of green entrepreneurship worldwide over the last six decades. This idea originated out of my research on the beauty industry, in which I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics