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  • 24 May 2014
  • News

Analysts’ dim view of CSR brightens over time

  • April 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

Tapestry Networks

By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to build new frameworks for pressing regulatory challenges. Tapestry's motivating principle was to reimagine solutions to complex problems (e.g., drug-approval standards) in... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Government And Business; Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States; European Union
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Functional Imaging of Decision Conflict

By: J. B. Pochon, Jason Riis, A. Sanfey, L. Nystrom and J. D. Cohen
Decision conflict occurs when people feel uncertain as to which option to choose from a set of similarly attractive (or unattractive) options, with many studies demonstrating that this conflict can lead to suboptimal decision making. In this article, we investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Judgments; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Conflict and Resolution; Perception
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  • 13 Feb 2017
  • News

20th Anniversary New Venture Competition to Offer a Record $300,000 in Prizes to Student Businesses, Social Enterprises, and Alumni Ventures

  • Web

1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA

students so that they can review the content covered in missed class sessions. Students are responsible for all assignments and content covered in the classes they miss. Assignments, papers, and exams of... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

According to a new Harvard Business School report from Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and co-author Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and political activist, Washington’s proverbial “swamp” isn’t a set... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

    First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People

    A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident.

    Social psychologist Amy... View Details
    • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
    In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States
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    • 22 Jul 2015
    • News

    The Kids of Working Moms Are All Right

    • 11 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

    Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

    By: George Serafeim
    Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed by business relations, and then reputation and... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; Corruption; Bribery; Employee Engagement; Reputation; Regulation; Competition; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Performance
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    • January 2007
    • Article

    Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business

    By: G. Jones and Peter Miskell
    This article provides a longitudinal case study of the use of acquisitions by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever to build the world's largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Value; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business and Shareholder Relations; Interests; Business Ventures; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 26 Sep 2012
    • News

    140 Characters of Risk: Some CEOs Fear Twitter

    • March 2014 (Revised October 2015)
    • Case

    Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector

    By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell
    Teach For China was founded in 2008 with the mission of expanding educational opportunity across China. By 2013, Andrea Pasinetti's lofty dream had taken flight: over 300 graduates from top American and Chinese universities were participating in its 2-year teaching... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit; China; Business And Government Relations; Business And Poverty; Business And Society; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Emerging Market; NGO; Education; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; China
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    • May 2021
    • Article

    Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

    By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
    We study the impact of consumers’ risk perception on firm innovation. Our analysis exploits a major surge in the perceived risk of radiation diagnostic devices following extensive media coverage of a set of over-radiation accidents involving CT scanners in late 2009.... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Perception; Innovation; Medical Devices; Liability Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Technological Innovation
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    • 29 Oct 2012
    • News

    Private equity guru's mission to show big business can do altruism

    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • 31 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Stories of 2012

    Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Web

    Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    College. Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Lehman Brothers "partners' room," 1957. Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Photo by... View Details
    • 03 Mar 2017
    • News

    Inside Snapchat: The Best Tech IPO of 2017?

    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education