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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
big proponents of public posts,” Tingle said. “For anyone who is serious about diversity you have to let people see the job. You can’t apply for a job you don’t know exists. To broaden the funnel and find...
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- April 1993 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to look at outsourcing from the perspective of a major computer services company trying to get into the business.
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Communication Technology;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Business Strategy;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Financial Management;
Management Teams;
Communication Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Product Design;
Accounting;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Computer Industry;
Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (B)." Harvard Business School Case 193-145, April 1993. (Revised December 2001.)
- December 2015
- Article
On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends
By: Maurice H. Yearwood, Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner and Aleksandr Spectre
Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we propose social class plays a key role in determining...
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Yearwood, Maurice H., Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner, and Aleksandr Spectre. "On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends." Personality and Individual Differences 87 (December 2015): 224–229.
- 09 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester
I’m enjoying the experience, and know that it will be vital for an introvert like me to slowly build up confidence to put my (even half-baked) thoughts forward. On the recruiting front, if there’s one thing I’d advise new students, it...
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- 09 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."
interests.” By the early winter, Jon had moved to a second phase in which he “narrowed my personal funnel to project development” prospects. Most of the companies he investigated, given their modest scale and early stage of growth,...
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Manufacturing
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 14 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets
Love came to Carolina Delgado Joyce and Charlie Joyce (both MBA 2018) before they entered HBS together in 2016. With a wedding scheduled for July 9, "It was challenging," Charlie admits. "It's hard not to pull your hair out...
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- 2015
- Article
Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World
By: Jeremy Friedman
This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Business and Government Relations;
China;
United States;
Soviet Union
Friedman, Jeremy. "Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World." Modern China Studies [Dang dai Zhongguo yan jiu] 22, no. 1 (2015): 259–292.
- 05 Feb 2024
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire for Attitude?
includes such things as determining a job candidate’s identification with the mission and values of the organization. It may even include assessing comfort with the leadership, the team with which the...
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by James Heskett
- 2018
- Working Paper
After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance Olympic Legacy and Prevent Olympic Sites from Becoming White Elephants
By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser
In recent years, the total spending on hosting the Olympic Games has snowballed. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games spent $40 billion on infrastructure development, and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics reached $50 billion. Even when the glorious but costly Olympic Games come...
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Keywords:
Olympic Venue;
Effective Reuse;
White Elephant;
Sustainability;
Buildings and Facilities;
Sports
Okada, Isao, and Stephen A. Greyser. "After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance Olympic Legacy and Prevent Olympic Sites from Becoming White Elephants." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-019, August 2018.
- Article
When Is Traditionalism an Asset and When Is It a Liability for Team Innovation? A Two-Study Empirical Examination
By: Laura Huang, Cristina B. Gibson, Bradley L. Kirkman and Debra L. Shapiro
Team innovation requires idea generating and idea implementing. In two studies, we examine how these team activities are affected by the extent to which members value traditionalism – that is, placing importance on preserving old ways of doing things over breaking...
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Keywords:
Groups and Teams;
Innovation and Invention;
Diversity;
Values and Beliefs;
Performance Effectiveness
Huang, Laura, Cristina B. Gibson, Bradley L. Kirkman, and Debra L. Shapiro. "When Is Traditionalism an Asset and When Is It a Liability for Team Innovation? A Two-Study Empirical Examination." Journal of International Business Studies 48, no. 6 (August 2017): 693–715.
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
likely not like the real thing. Keinan: That is what's interesting about both cases—these are artists with a vision, passion, and a mission, but they are also good at marketing, promoting, and View Details
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
really matters in the workplace is helping employees feel appreciated.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
Financial resources don’t determine the quality of education, but it would be absurd to deny that money helps. "Adding to the challenge, 65 percent of Black college students are also juggling full-time jobs or families." Merck CEO Kenneth...
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- November 2021
- Case
Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion for All
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
In Fall 2017, Tommy Hilfiger launched Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive, a line of adaptive and inclusive fashion apparel intended to make dressing easier. Now, Tommy Hilfiger is planning to launch Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive internationally in early 2020. The prospect of making...
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Keywords:
Marketing And Society;
Brands;
Fashion;
Inclusion;
Consumer;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Retail;
Apparel;
Disability;
Accessibility;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Product Marketing;
Social Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Enterprise;
Society;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Consumer Behavior;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States;
North America
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Sandra J. Sucher, and Shalene Gupta. "Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion for All." Harvard Business School Case 522-053, November 2021.
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- January 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy
By: Jill Avery, Anat Keinan and Liz Kind
onefinestay was a two-sided marketplace that offered high-end home rentals to travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. After five years of rapid growth, it was time to do a comprehensive analysis of the...
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Keywords:
Luxury Goods;
Brand Building;
Brand Management;
Hospitality;
Hotels;
Digital Marketing;
Brand Positioning;
Luxury Service;
Airbnb;
Sharing Economy;
Collaborative Consumption;
Disruptive Business Model;
Travel;
Alternatives To Hotel;
Branding;
Customer Service;
Exceeding Consumer Expectations;
Client Acquisition;
Reputation Management;
Word Of Mouth;
2-way Business Model;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Luxury;
Disruption;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
E-commerce;
Accommodations Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Travel Industry;
United Kingdom
Avery, Jill, Anat Keinan, and Liz Kind. "onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy." Harvard Business School Case 515-072, January 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue...
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- 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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Keywords:
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).