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Podcast - Business & Environment

them easier to disassemble and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing circular solutions for end-of-life mattresses. Karen also... View Details
  • October 1999 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

Women's World Banking: Catalytic Change Through Networks

By: James E. Austin and Susan Hamerling
Describes the evolution of Women's World Banking, an international microfinance nonprofit promoting financial access for poor women. Explores the organization's development of different types of networks to achieve its mission. View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; History; Networks; Microfinance; Nonprofit Organizations; Gender; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

Among them are low setup cost, allowing companies to start advertising for as little as $10 a day; precise targeting—to specific demographics, or based on life events such as birthdays or similarity to current customers; short creative View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

today's business environment, says Roy Y.J. Chua, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who has focused his research on exploring how such collaboration can effectively take place. A graduate of Columbia Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

humans who are perceived as more versus less robotic. These results have theoretical implications for understanding social cognition about both humans and nonhumans and practical implications for the... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it can be coupled with exogenous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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  • 22 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Master the One-on-One Meeting

Whether you’re a CEO or a line manager, your team is just as important as a group as its members are as individuals. Today’s tech companies offer many perks to attract and retain the best employees. We offer competitive salaries, training and the promise of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
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  • May 2000 (Revised December 2018)
  • Supplement

SMA: Micro-Electronic Products Division (B)

By: Michael Beer and Michael Tushman
Focuses on the recommendations and implementation strategy suggested by the organizational development group for the division's problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy
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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to financial support, we add social capital by enhancing the professional development and visibility of... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

developing the company’s marketing and communications strategy around artificial intelligence (AI). I later spent several months on rotation with Google’s Public Policy team, where I helped to develop and... View Details
  • 14 May 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Humblebragging: A Distinct-and Ineffective-Self-Presentation Strategy

Keywords: by Ovul Sezer, Francesca Gino & Michael I. Norton
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

fascinated by the old British style of operation. And advertising was seen as a glamorous thing” Kapur discusses his years as a developing ad man and eventual executive chairman of O&M India in a new interview with Sunil Gupta, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

to determine the best ways to develop prize competitions to maximize participation, the evidence shows that they can be a valuable approach to spurring new inventions—whether you are designing a new plow or putting another man on the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

ecological, societal, and cultural developments in a harmonious way.” Download Transcript Argentina Arturo Acevedo President, Grupo Arcelor Mittal (Acindar) (Steel and Mining) “It is important to clearly define View Details
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

graduated. “Here’s the good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

portfolios. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45597 August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science I'm Sorry About the Rain! Superfluous Apologies Demonstrate Empathic Concern and Increase Trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne