Publications

May 2023
Case

Twitter Blues: Does Paid Verification Check Out?

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman

Elon Musk proposes to offer verification status on Twitter to paying subscribers. Chaos ensues. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Social Media; Technology Industry

February 2023
Article

Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record

By: Zoë Cullen, Will Dobbie and Mitchell Hoffman

State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant’s criminal record... View Details

Keywords: Criminal Record; Hiring; Background Checks; Recruitment; Insurance

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July 2009
Supplement

Spreadsheet Supplement to Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing (CW)

By: Peter Tufano

These spreadsheets will allow students to analyze financials for Kinecta Federal Credit Union and Nix Check Cashing. They also provide insight into the banking and AFS markets in which both organizations operate. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

March 1991 (Revised May 1992)
Case

Great Northern Nekoosa vs. Georgia-Pacific: Check Paper

By: Michael E. Porter and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry

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1986
Book

Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Spending; Balance and Stability

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31 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

Imagine you’re a consultant and you notice a few eyebrow-raising behaviors, such as a colleague who misuses a client’s meal stipend or an executive who screams inappropriately at his staff. Should you step in and speak up? For consultants, especially those starting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

2016
Report

How Do People Pay Rent?

By: David Hao Zhang

Households still pay rent primarily with paper methods, even though electronic methods are featured more prominently among high-income, high-education, and high-rent households. These patterns may be explained either by the lack of landlord acceptance of electronic... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Payments; Rent Payments; Money Order; Credit Card; Checks; Credit Cards; Online Technology; Consumer Behavior; Cash; Leasing

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2009
Chapter

Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between Non-Work and Work Identities

By: Nancy Rothbard and Lakshmi Ramarajan

In this chapter we examine factors that enable individuals to experience compatibility between their work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Identity; Adaptation

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18 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

shows. Despite scrutiny of overdraft fees during the financial crisis more than a decade ago, some banks still reorder checking account debits so that the largest amounts, rather than the earliest debits posted, are withdrawn first.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris

Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details

Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

Past studies have bolstered the idea that marginalized groups might find more career opportunities if they downplay their identities. But women and minorities may actually benefit by explicitly mentioning their identities, at least when asking others for help,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Research Summary

Paper - Playing in the Forest: Labor Arrangements in the Brazilian Amazon, 1870-1910

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By: Youngme Moon

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November 2020
Case

Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index of stocks such as the S&P... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

July 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Central Bank: The ChexSystemsSM QualiFile® Decision

By: Dennis Campbell, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Peter Tufano and Emily McClintock

The "Central Bank" series analyzes the use of information and product design for managing the counterparty risk of newly acquired customers. Central Bank, a mid-sized regional U.S. bank, was attempting to grow its customer base by increasing the number of new checking... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Knowledge Management; Customer Satisfaction; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Making; Banking Industry; United States