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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- August 1972 (Revised September 2000)
- Background Note
Introduction to Accumulated Value, Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return
A simple, intuitive introduction to the usually-difficult topics of discounting and present value. While the mechanics of computing present value and internal rate of return are covered well, the emphasis is more about how to think about these concepts (for example,...
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Accounting
Hammond, John S. "Introduction to Accumulated Value, Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return." Harvard Business School Background Note 173-003, August 1972. (Revised September 2000.)
- 1992
- Chapter
Negotiator Rationality and Negotiator Cognition: The Interactive Roles of Prescriptive and Descriptive Research
By: M. H. Bazerman and M. A. Neale
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy
By: Dominika K. Sarnecka and Gary P. Pisano
Over the past few decades, a consensus has emerged that breakthrough innovations emerge from exploration of novel terrain while more routine innovations are the product of exploitation. In this paper, we revisit this explore versus exploit dichotomy with an analysis...
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Breakthrough Innovation;
Exploration And Exploitation;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation
Sarnecka, Dominika K., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-071, December 2020.
- December 1989
- Article
On the Consistency of Short-Run and Long-Run Exchange Rate Expectations
By: K. A. Froot and T. Ito
This paper examines whether short-term exchange rate expectations 'overreact' by comparing them with long-term expectations. We develop a set of nonlinear restrictions linking expectations at different forecast horizons. The restrictions impose consistency, a property...
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Currencies;
Exchange Rates;
International Macroeconomics;
Monetary Policy;
Currency Controls;
Fixed Exchange Rates;
Floating Exchange Rates;
Currency Bands;
Currency Zones;
Currency Areas;
Rational Expectations;
Asset Pricing
Froot, K. A., and T. Ito. "On the Consistency of Short-Run and Long-Run Exchange Rate Expectations." Journal of International Money and Finance 8, no. 4 (December 1989): 487–510. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 2577, May 1988.)
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
meaningful to the culture, like employee of the month plaques or sales awards. Companies should think about who they want to attract and design non-monetary awards around that goal. For instance, companies...
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by Avery Forman
- March 24, 2015
- Article
Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism
By: Aaron Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing trend of "CEO activism." Despite the criticism of that particular initiative, CEO activism—from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's...
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Leadership;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Communication Strategy;
Race
Chatterji, Aaron, and Michael W. Toffel. "Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 24, 2015).
- 2019
- Chapter
Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators
By: Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos
As the appetite for learning about social innovation intensifies, how can we better prepare practitioners for the work of addressing the world’s pressing social problems at the relevant scale? This chapter presents the “3P” framework that we developed to help address...
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Social Innovation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Change;
Problems and Challenges
Battilana, Julie, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis, and Christian Seelos. "Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators." In Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, edited by Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey, and Havovi Joshi, 61–74. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
- 2023
- Article
Moral Escalation: Contested Category Emergence and Its Consequences in the Toy Industry
By: Ryann Noe
Preexisting research has outlined the cognitive, competitive, and economic barriers to market category emergence. Yet scholars have paid scant attention to the processes and consequences of moral resistance to nascent categories. Through a longitudinal, qualitative...
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Moral Sensibility;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Positioning;
Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Noe, Ryann. "Moral Escalation: Contested Category Emergence and Its Consequences in the Toy Industry." Academy of Management Proceedings (2023).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical...
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Online Word Of Mouth;
Online Communities;
Viral Marketing;
Online Product Reviews;
Quality;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Digital Marketing;
Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
We sometimes also had costumes. Various section men would don a head-to-toe skintight yellow suit. Think super hero with no powers and no cape. And very unforgiving. One...
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- 2012
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'
2009 AL Fellow
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
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Leadership Skills;
Ethics Education;
Initiatives;
Morality;
Moral Compass;
Prima Facie;
Grassroots Movement;
Ethical Reasoning;
Decision-making;
Social Media;
Media Relations;
Family Dinner Project;
Public Conversations Project;
Laura Chasin;
Computer Games;
Video Games;
Quandary;
Organizational Structure;
Infrastructure;
Ethics;
Education;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Decision Making;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Education Industry;
Service Industry;
North and Central America
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 23 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School
- 09 Nov 2015
- News
Men Sit Up and Listen as Women Fill 40% of Business School Seats
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
incremental improvement of existing practice. Health Care Courses Creating Shared Value This intensive two-day leadership program on "Creating Shared Value: Economic Success and Social Impact" presents a new body of View Details