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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for...
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Martha Lagace
- November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Technical Note
Customer Data Privacy
By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang
This note provides an overview of the evolving landscape of customer data privacy in 2023. It highlights two pivotal aspects that make privacy a central concern for businesses: building and maintaining customer trust and navigating the intricate regulatory...
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Customer Relationship Management;
Governance Compliance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Reputation;
Trust;
Information Management;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
United States
Ascarza, Eva, and Ta-Wei Huang. "Customer Data Privacy." Harvard Business School Technical Note 524-005, November 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018
As we look to a new school year, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your interest in our students and share some thoughts as the recruiting season begins. After almost 15 years in Career and Professional Development, there are a few things I’d like to encourage...
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All Industries
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
trade with arbitrageurs. Consistent with the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
owned by women and minorities control less than 1% of total industry assets. Less than one percent. This is the problem that our club has set out to address. “The industry’s reliance on personal...
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- January 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Democracy
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys scholarship on democracy and democratization. Describes the relationship between democracy and the environment of business, including capitalist economic institutions, economic growth, economic reform, and international relations.
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Economic Systems;
Situation or Environment;
Business and Government Relations;
Economic Growth;
International Relations;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Abdelal, Rawi E. "Democracy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-036, January 2002. (Revised March 2006.)
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Projects By: MacCormack, Alan, and Anant Mishra Abstract—Formal contracts represent an important governance instrument with which firms exercise control of and compensate partners in R&D projects. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
entrepreneurialism to preserve a community logic of banking and maintain local control banking infrastructures. We discuss how our study contributes to the emerging synthesis View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control View Details
- September 2004 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Robert Lawrence and J. Katherine Milligan
Brazil has just won a case action against the U.S. cotton agriculture program at the World Trade Organization. What does this mean for future agricultural programs in the United States? For future trade policies of the United States, Brazil, and others in the global...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Trade;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Types;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
United States;
Brazil
Goldberg, Ray A., Robert Lawrence, and J. Katherine Milligan. "Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation." Harvard Business School Case 905-405, September 2004. (Revised January 2005.)
- June 2009
- Supplement
Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
At the 2009 Shell annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder perspective (and...
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Voting;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Perspective;
Energy Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kaitlyn Simpson. "Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-127, June 2009.
- December 2008 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Diabetes and Beyond (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
Ginger Graham, CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, joined the company with the expectation of taking the company's signature drug, Symlin, to market. However, unforeseen regulatory challenges have put the approval process in jeopardy. At the same time, the company has a...
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Regulations;
Drug Regulations;
Symlin;
Negotiation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Resource Allocation;
Negotiation Deal;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Commercialization;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Rachel Gordon. "Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Diabetes and Beyond (A)." Harvard Business School Case 809-011, December 2008. (Revised October 2013.)
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
check. In sheer terms of gaining favor among consumers, a firm with a high CEO-to-worker pay ratio must offer a substantial 50 percent discount to keep up with a firm that maintains a low pay ratio. This is among the key findings in the...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
The increase in risk is greater than for a control group of banks that intended but failed to transition from private to public ownership, a result that is robust to using a plausibly exogenous instrument...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 15, 2021
- Article
Social Media Companies Should Self-Regulate. Now
By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
We argue that social media firms should ramp up self-regulation of content in 2021. This argument is based on research on numerous industries where firms and/or industry associations devised self-regulatory strategies that successfully limited or forestalled more...
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Self-regulation;
Internet and the Web;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
Social Media
Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. "Social Media Companies Should Self-Regulate. Now." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2021).
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile’s research. “The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and...
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