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  • April 2022
  • Article

Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others

By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams and Michael I. Norton
Many products and services are designed to make caregiving easier, from premade meals for feeding families to robo-cribs that automatically rock babies to sleep. Yet, using these products may come with a cost: consumers may feel they have not exerted enough effort.... View Details
Keywords: Effor; Caregiving; Close Relationships; Symbolic Meaning; Signaling; Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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  • December 2005 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Nest Fresh Eggs (A)

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Cyd Szymanski's cage-free egg business was threatened by large caged-hen companies that saw new profit potential in the industry she had helped build. Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Business Administration David S. Scharfstein Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking Arthur I Segel Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family Professor of... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

India? 2025 Working Paper With a Little Help from My Family: Informal Startup Financing By: Brian K. Baik , Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen and Katja Kisseleva Using Norwegian administrative data, we identify family... View Details

    Tom Nicholas

    Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; high technology
    • 20 Aug 2020
    • Book

    From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

    For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 28 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as generous View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 11 May 2022
    • Blog Post

    MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

    a mom at HBS? Being away from family and in a new place was hard because your back-up options for child care are more limited. And COVID unfortunately did not help. What advice... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

    like education planning and account aggregation, advisory firms can strengthen their businesses, shows the study, which Di Maggio cowrote with five collaborators from the investment company Dimensional Fund Advisors. "The issue is, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

    By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer
    What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Community Relations ; Social Impact ; Argentina ; Mexico ; Brazil ; Conglomerate ; Stakeholder Management ; Government And Business ; Community Impact ; Philanthropy ; Business Conglomerates ; Business Subsidiaries ; Business Headquarters... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard
    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Current and rising... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
    • 2007
    • Book

    America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States
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    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    Research Center, in collaboration with the HBS Club of GCC, hosted an alumni event in Dubai exploring the challenges faced by family businesses. Titled “Beyond the Façade: Transforming Communication in View Details
    • 29 Jan 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

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    Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    says, "through collaboration and cooperation with friends and colleagues, and through self-observation and... View Details
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

    the Puritan merchants of New England, they used their familial and religious connections to form a tight network of trustworthy relationships stretching over long distances. This kind of system for making... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
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    Giving - Alumni

    at Harvard University. Gifts to HBS from alumni and friends living outside the United States may be directed to one of our affiliated charitable entities in order to qualify for a tax deduction or a tax... View Details
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    Creating Emerging Markets

    Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023) 15 May 2022 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Leadership to Last: New Book... View Details