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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Company, where he put together the collaborative team that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. After moving to California in 1961, Rock and investor Tommy Davis formed Davis & Rock, which posted an extraordinary 40 percent annual growth rate... View Details

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • 10 May 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

    opportunities to learn how the organization could do its core work better. Monitor and recalibrate their development efforts. Businesses track indicators of whether people are thriving—like promotion and retention rates and employees’... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 04 Apr 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

    the same kind of innovation? At the same rate? Or, because of greater access to talented people only able to work remotely, will we experience totally new innovations at a faster rate than would have occurred under more traditional ways... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 13 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

    effectiveness.” Fast forward to six months later, and the results were markedly different: The test group completed 1.6 percent more orders and spent 3.2 percent more on products versus the group that didn’t have access to the new tool. Consumers using the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 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
    • Research Summary

    The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
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    Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

    Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

    • 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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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    By: Kristin Sippl
    While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
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    Open to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination

    By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
    Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs-affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research... View Details
    Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Research; Organizations; Negotiation; Information Publishing
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    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

    create a method of sales management that encompassed all aspects of selling, from the calculation of quotas and commission rates to the motivation of discouraged salesmen. This excerpt looks at one aspect of the Patterson method: the... View Details
    Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
    • 29 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

    tipping and corruption is counterintuitive in the United States. But there is a fuzzy line between the two." Countries with higher rates of tipping behavior also tended to have higher rates of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 28 Jun 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

    On the flip side, 28 percent laid off or furloughed workers. By the end of April 2020, 15.9 million Americans were out of work, and the unemployment rate was 14.7 percent—a huge swing from the 50-year low of 3.6 percent just months... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 06 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

    agents at adjacent firms, competitive outside options abounded,” the study notes. The exit begins Once pay reductions were announced, “highly productive” workers, or those who took in 20 to 25 percent more revenue per call than average, fled at a 28 percent higher... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 07 Jul 2021
    • Book

    Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

    take this seriously, it can be done." “Michelin wasn’t just being collaborative for the sake of being collaborative,” Sucher and Gupta write. “Its instincts were excellent.” Michelin is once again known for its restaurant ratings and... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow Understand key metrics in valuation like time value of money, terminal value,... View Details
    • February 2025
    • Article

    Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover

    By: Victoria Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny
    Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. Using panel data over the period 2014-2020, we... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Retention; Health Industry
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Politics at Work

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
    We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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    • September–October 2018
    • Article

    Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

    By: Ayelet Israeli
    This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a pricing policy widely used by manufacturers to... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing Policies; Pricing; Channel Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Retail; Price; Policy; Governance Compliance; Distribution Channels; Management; Retail Industry
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