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    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
    • February 2019
    • Teaching Note

    Talent@Tencent

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Late in 2016, two senior human resources (HR) executives at Tencent Holdings (Tencent), China’s leading Internet services firm, are assessing the effectiveness of the company’s talent management practices in responding to Tencent’s sustained hypergrowth. Over the... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Retention; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Web Services Industry; China
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    • March 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    The Posse Foundation: Implementing a Growth Strategy

    The Posse Foundation selected high-potential, non-traditional students to attend selective colleges as part of a group of 10 from the same city. The organization had developed an ambitious growth plan, but because it focused on the most selective colleges, the pool of... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Higher Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
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    • 28 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • October 2022
    • Case

    Volt Lines: Leading a B2B Service Provider through a Crisis (A)

    By: Navid Mojir and Gamze Yucaoglu
    Volt Lines was a next-generation transportation service in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was trying to disrupt the traditional corporate transportation market by developing software that allowed it to offer subscription-based transportation. Under the subscription... View Details
    Keywords: Business To Business Marketing; B2B Marketing; B2B Pricing; Subscription Model; Crisis Marketing; Startup; Service Management; Information Technology; Transportation; COVID-19 Pandemic; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Business Model; Price; Crisis Management; Opportunities; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Turkey
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    • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
    • Supplement

    Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

    By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details
    Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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    • March 2020
    • Article

    Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation

    By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
    How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Recombination; Organization Design; Team Boundary; Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Diversity; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Human Capital; Organizational Design
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    • 03 Jul 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Future of Social Enterprise

    Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard & Susan McDonald
    • 13 Jul 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Catastrophe Bonds

    Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Financial Services
    • Research Summary

    Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

    Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.

    We study a model of featuring two economies with adverse selection of and moral hazard by bankers. We demonstrate... View Details

    • August 2016
    • Teaching Note

    The Role of Real Estate in Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church College

    By: Arthur I. Segel and Alexander W. Schultz
    The case centers on Christ Church’s Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College’s endowment in real estate. Approximately 1/3 of the total $690 million endowment was allocated towards real estate, much higher than... View Details
    Keywords: Portfolio Allocation; Oxford; England; Real Estate; University Endowment; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Property; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; England
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    • January 2016
    • Case

    Sentient Jet: The Uber of Private Jets

    By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
    Founded in 1999 in the Boston area, Sentient Jet had become a leading private aviation company in the United States. Its success was built on the introduction of a groundbreaking membership program that offered business travelers the flexibility and convenience of... View Details
    Keywords: Private Jets; Private Aviation; Luxury; Luxury Service; Uber; Branding; Growth Strategy; Client Acquisition; Innovative Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Collaborative Consumption; Disruption; Disruptive Business Model; Travel; Reputation Management; Sharing Economy; Word Of Mouth; Customer Engagement; Aircraft; Membership Programs; Loyalty Program; Brand Positioning; Brand Building; Brand Differentiation; Customer Service; Exceeding Consumer Expectations; 2-way Business Model; Marketing Partnerships; Netjet; Air Transportation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

    Collis and Leena Kulkarni, former research associates at HBS. “We found that candidates were talented, and yet they self-selected out,” Coffman says. Ultimately, that means many businesses advertising for executive positions may wind up with applicant View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

    By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
    This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurredover more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Framework; Service Operations; Decisions; Relationships; Price; Diversification; Geography; Cost; Advertising Industry; United States
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    • January 2010
    • Journal Article

    A Choice Prediction Competition: Choices from Experience and from Description

    By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert, Alvin E. Roth, Ernan E. Haruvy, Stefan Herzog, Robin Hau, Ralph Hertwig, Terrence Steward, Robert West and Christian Lebiere
    Erev, Ert, and Roth organized three choice prediction competitions focused on three related choice tasks: one-shot decisions from description (decisions under risk), one-shot decisions from experience, and repeated decisions from experience. Each competition was based... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition
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    • 24 Jun 2017
    • News

    Should the Lions pick all 15 players from one team?

    • July 2011
    • Article

    Kidney Paired Donation

    By: C. Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
    Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when the first paired donation transplant was performed in the U.S. In the past decade, KPD has become the fastest growing source of transplantable kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Problems and Challenges; Programs; System; United States
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    • 21 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

    forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Anger and Regulation

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emotions; Welfare
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    • Web

    HBS Recruiting Homepage

    Discover HBS Talent HBS students and alumni are diverse, talented leaders aiming to make a positive impact in the world. Discover ways to meet and recruit this pool of talent. Recruit Now Insights & Advice 05 May 2025 Shira Amat Meet the... View Details