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- November–December 2020
- Article
Dancing with Giants: How Small Women-and Minority- Owned Firms Use Soft Power to Manage Asymmetric Relationships with Larger Partners
By: Kisha Lashley and Timothy G. Pollock
We explore how minority- and women-owned suppliers lacking hard power manage asymmetric relationships with larger, more powerful buyers in the context of supplier diversity relationships. We examine how these suppliers create and use soft power to manage the...
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Keywords:
Women-owned Businesses;
Minority-owned Businesses;
Soft Power;
Buyer-supplier Relationshships;
Cognitive Centrality;
Hard Power;
Influencers;
Supplier Diversity;
Small Business;
Relationships;
Sales
Lashley, Kisha, and Timothy G. Pollock. "Dancing with Giants: How Small Women-and Minority- Owned Firms Use Soft Power to Manage Asymmetric Relationships with Larger Partners." Organization Science 31, no. 6 (November–December 2020): 1313–1335.
- April 2008
- Journal Article
Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
This study explores the systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as random....
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DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis." Management Science 54, no. 4 (April 2008).
- April 2018
- Teaching Note
Formlabs: Selling a New 3D Printer
By: Frank Cespedes
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-001. Formlabs is a venture that manufactures and sells 3D printers used in a variety of industries and applications. As the young company prepares to ship its latest model, the head of Customer Development is tasked with developing a...
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Keywords:
3D Printing And Manufacturing;
Sales Channel Development;
Sales Strategy;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Product Engineering;
Prototype;
Prototyping;
Entrepreneurship;
Product Launch;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Startups;
Customers;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Demand and Consumers;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Technology Industry;
Computer Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Europe;
Asia
- 2016
- Working Paper
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields using multiple definitions....
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Keywords:
Immigrants;
Entrepreneurs;
Entry;
Firms;
Growth;
High-tech Marketing;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-011, July 2016. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22385, July 2016.)
- March 2015
- Article
Vulnerable Banks
By: Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier and David Thesmar
We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales depress prices,...
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Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar. "Vulnerable Banks." Journal of Financial Economics 115, no. 3 (March 2015): 471–485.
- February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes
The regional head of supply chain for PepsiCo South America Foods and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agricultural research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay...
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Keywords:
Food;
Supply Chain;
Planning;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Leading Change;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Peru
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal, and Matthew Bird. "PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes." Harvard Business School Case 311-083, February 2011. (Revised April 2012.)
- 2009
- Book
Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership
By: Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria and Mark Rennella
'Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders' examines the role that business leaders play in shaping industries and how the evolving context of industries shapes leaders in turn. This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the story of...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Development;
Managerial Roles;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Growth;
Air Transportation Industry
Mayo, Anthony J., Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions
By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler
A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power to predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these results may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's...
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Equity;
Market Timing;
Financial Instruments;
Investment Return;
Mathematical Methods
Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10823, January 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Does America Care About Care? Not Enough
- Web
Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
can highlight your employment history in a straight chronological manner, but also make it immediately clear you have filled a variety of roles that use different but related skill sets. This is useful to provide a few accomplishments in...
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- 2009
- Article
The Dynamics of Silencing Conflict
By: Leslie Perlow and Nelson Repenning
In many organizations, when people perceive a difference with another they often do not fully express themselves. Despite creating innumerable problems, silencing conflict is a persistent phenomenon. While the antecedents of acts of silence are well documented, little...
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Perlow, Leslie, and Nelson Repenning. "The Dynamics of Silencing Conflict." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 195–223.
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
explains McFowland. “People in the lower half of that distribution had a much larger productivity bump. But on average, everyone seems to do better.” Surprisingly though, says McFowland, certain solutions using AI yielded a more limited View Details
- June 29, 2022
- Other Article
Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation
By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy...
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Keywords:
Obfuscation;
Credit Cards;
Strategic Incentives;
Complexity;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Customers;
Consumer Behavior;
Financial Services Industry
Luca, Michael, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Daniel Martin. "Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation." Management Science Review (June 29, 2022). (Summary of "Complex Disclosure," Management Science, May 2022.)
- July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Linux in 2004
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Brian Subirana and Christina Pham
A new technology platform conceived in the early 1990s, Linux developed into a force to be reckoned with in the operating system marketplace. At first, Linux was dismissed as a renegade option used only by tech geeks. By 2004, however, Linux had exploded into the...
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Keywords:
Competition;
Open Source Distribution;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Brian Subirana, and Christina Pham. "Linux in 2004." Harvard Business School Case 705-407, July 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Service Delivery;
Competition;
Conflict of Interests;
Policy;
Practice;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Marketing Science Institute Report, No. 12-104, May 2012.
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
tension for the organization, then applied the lens of trust to help them see where trust was breaking down.” Wednesday: Discuss the “good enough” plan with a diverse group of colleagues Share the problem and your plan for fixing it with a View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract A View Details
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Martha Lagace
- January 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Godiva Japan: Think Local, Scale Global
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Esel Cekin and Akiko Kanno
This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010. Through various initiatives and innovations,...
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Keywords:
Branding;
Internationalization;
Innovation;
Positioning;
Customer Segmentation;
Occasion-based Segmentation;
Execution;
Talent;
Customer-focused Strategies;
Product Positioning;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Change Management;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Product;
Segmentation;
Innovation and Invention;
Brands and Branding;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Japan
Deshpandé, Rohit, Esel Cekin, and Akiko Kanno. "Godiva Japan: Think Local, Scale Global." Harvard Business School Case 517-056, January 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- March 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Chiaphua Group Vietnam
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Michael Shih-ta Chen
As part of its expansion and diversification strategy, the Chiaphua Group explored real estate investments in emerging markets. The Group was one of the largest privately held company groups based in Hong Kong, with international investments in a variety of...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Laws and Statutes;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Business and Government Relations;
Diversification;
Hong Kong
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Michael Shih-ta Chen. "Chiaphua Group Vietnam." Harvard Business School Case 207-090, March 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
By: Peter Tufano
We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide...
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Keywords:
Saving;
Motivation and Incentives;
Programs;
Income;
Personal Finance;
Family and Family Relationships;
Performance Effectiveness
Tufano, Peter, and Daniel Schneider. "Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-075, April 2008.