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- January 2011 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Rebranding Gallagher
By: Rohit Deshpande and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Steve Tucker, the Deputy CEO of Gallagher Group Limited (GGL), the world's largest electric fence company, was about to present a new branding strategy to the company's senior managers and Bill Gallagher, Jr., CEO. After spending more than 18 months with brand...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution;
Industrial Products Industry
Deshpande, Rohit, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Rebranding Gallagher." Harvard Business School Case 511-098, January 2011. (Revised January 2014.)
Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards From Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely
Passion is stereotypically expressed through animated facial expressions, energetic body movements, varied tone, and pitch—and met with interpersonal benefits. However, these capture only a subset of passion expressions that are more common for extraverts....
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- 2015
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Competitive Strategies Marketing Reading
By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
Core Curriculum Readings in Marketing cover the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks that business students must study.
This Reading illuminates the dynamics of companies in competition and offers a process for planning and executing marketing... View Details
This Reading illuminates the dynamics of companies in competition and offers a process for planning and executing marketing... View Details
Keywords:
Competitive Strategy
Avery, Jill, and Sunil Gupta. "Competitive Strategies Marketing Reading." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing 8158, 2015.
- Research Summary
A Hippocratic Oath for Management
By: Nitin Nohria
The conduct of doctors is guided by the Hippocratic Oath, which provides a normative framework that shapes their identity and orientation towards society. In light of the diminished public trust in business managers, is it time for management to embrace its... View Details
The Wisdom of Finance
The finance industry is widely thought of as being morally suspect. Even those who work in finance tend to compartmentalize between their personal lives and how they get ahead professionally. Mihir Desai argues that not only is this preconception completely false...
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The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a Face
By: Christine E. Looser and Thalia Wheatley
Faces capture humans' attention; yet, beyond aesthetic appreciation, it is presumably not the face itself that interests people but the mind behind it. Minds think, feel, and act in ways that have direct consequences for well-being, but despite their importance, how...
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Looser, Christine E., and Thalia Wheatley. "The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a Face." Psychological Science 21, no. 12 (December 2010).
- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Teaching Note
Universal During COVID: The Future of Theatrical Windows
By: Hong Luo, Henry McGee and Carol Lin
The COVID-19 pandemic brought enormous disruption to the movie industry, closing theaters indefinitely by mid-March 2020, halting television and film production, and throwing theatrical release schedules into disarray. Shell had assumed the CEO position at NBC...
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- Forthcoming
- Article
Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards from Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely
By: Kai Krautter, Anabel Büchner and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion is stereotypically expressed through animated facial expressions, energetic body movements, varied tone, and pitch—and met with interpersonal benefits. However, these capture only a subset of passion expressions that are more common for extraverts. Indeed, in...
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Keywords:
Passion;
Personality;
Extraversion;
Scale Development;
Perception;
Personal Characteristics
Krautter, Kai, Anabel Büchner, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards from Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming). (Pre-published online, November 25, 2023.)
- Web
Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
value and achieve outstanding financial performance. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through group exercises. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes...
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- May 2024
- Article
Selfish Corporations
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Niels Gormsen and Timothy McQuade
We study how perceptions of corporate responsibility influence policy preferences and the effectiveness of corporate communication when agents have imperfect memory recall. Using a new large-scale survey of U.S. citizens on their support for corporate bailouts, we...
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Colonnelli, Emanuele, Niels Gormsen, and Timothy McQuade. "Selfish Corporations." Review of Economic Studies 91, no. 3 (May 2024): 1498–1536.
- August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai
In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Food;
Agribusiness;
Expansion;
Diversification;
Growth Management;
Consumer Behavior;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Government and Politics;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Transformation;
Volatility;
Business Cycles;
Goods and Commodities;
Supply Chain;
Product;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China;
Asia
Reinhardt, Forest L., Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred, and Nancy Hua Dai. "New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business." Harvard Business School Case 720-009, August 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- Web
Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Assets equals liabilities and...
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
analyses to solve real business problems. Description of silent animated video above: People walking on the street transitions into data points on a map Learn how to craft successful business strategy through the power of Economics....
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- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Interpersonal Communication;
Organizational Culture;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- Article
Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality
By: Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli, Jason Nemirow, Maxim Massenkoff and Steven Pinker
What is the relationship between the language people use to describe an event and their moral judgments?
We test the hypothesis that moral judgment and causative verbs rely on the same underlying mental
model of people’s actions. Experiment 1a finds that participants...
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Keywords:
Moral Cognition;
Moral Psychology;
Causative Verbs;
Trolley Problem;
Argument Structure;
Moral Sensibility;
Judgments
De Freitas, Julian, Peter DiScioli, Jason Nemirow, Maxim Massenkoff, and Steven Pinker. "Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 43, no. 8 (August 2017): 1173–1182.
- November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier...
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
assess value, and communicate business decisions to stakeholders. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through quizzes and a capstone project. Description of silent animated...
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
and cultivate high-performing teams. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes, including self-assessments and 360-degree feedback from colleagues and peers before, during, and after the course. Description of silent View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through two weeks of project work. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different...
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
assess potential investment opportunities in private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes...
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