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- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
University professors Suresh Nallareddy and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, analyze data created by tax filings to compare effects on workers at varying compensation levels in different US states with and without tax cuts. The result: Tax...
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by Roberta Holland
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Improve Collective Intelligence, written by Ethan Bernstein, the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Jesse Shore, assistant professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of...
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by Roberta Holland
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
championship win over the Indianapolis Colts by tampering with the footballs. Accusers, which included the National Football League’s head office, said someone with the team underinflated the balls to make them easier for quarterback Tom...
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- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
A recent study suggests that America’s political polarization is driven more by incorrect beliefs and stereotypes about the other side than distaste with those people. That should be good news for those wondering how to knit polarized...
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- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
English speakers in two of the company's US subsidiaries. The mandate, Neeley says, gave the American workers an unexpected—and unearned—boost in their perceived status or worth within the company, which she refers to by the pseudonym...
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by Roberta Holland
- December 1993 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Bitter Competition: The Holland Sweetener Company versus NutraSweet (A)
The NutraSweet Co. has very successfully marketed aspartame, a low-calorie, high-intensity sweetener, around the world. NutraSweet's position was protected by patents until 1987 in Europe, Canada, and Japan, and until the end of 1992 in the United States. The case...
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Patents;
Competitive Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Canada;
Japan;
United States;
Europe
Brandenburger, Adam M., and Julia Kou. "Bitter Competition: The Holland Sweetener Company versus NutraSweet (A)." Harvard Business School Case 794-079, December 1993. (Revised August 1998.)
- 26 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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by Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments, co-written with Julie Holland Mortimer of Boston College and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was updated earlier this year. Their findings about how to motivate...
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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Back by popular demand, we offer a second collection of alumni recounting their experience at their first jobs. READ MORE Hey, everybody, it's Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck....
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
- 2013
- Book
Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain
By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons
From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the...
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Liégey, Guillaume, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons. Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain. Calmann-Lévy, 2013, French ed.
- 10 Jun 2017
- News
How big data helped secure Emmanuel Macron’s astounding victory
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
on voter preferences. When he looked at the numbers after Hollande’s victory, he was surprised to find that there was no effect on turnout: the percentage of voters participating was not larger in precincts covered by the campaign....
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- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
2016 Boston: Self-published An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book is a self-study guide written for someone who wishes to teach themselves basic financial accounting. It is based on a course View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
will help make you a winner." Glaser's success story in fending off intense competition from Bill Gates & Co. and turning his seven-year old company into a prime purveyor of streaming video, audio, and music services on the Web was paralleled View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
training they provide, market pressures, corporate governance shortcomings, and even the nature of leadership itself. John led the charge by saying, “Having taught within business schools for 20 years, I’ve had instructors talk about...
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- January 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Fog of Business, The
In the mid-1980s, the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) was facing the decision whether to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets, following the ending of NutraSweet's patents there. A major question facing HSC was whether NutraSweet would respond to entry in an...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Patents;
Competition;
Market Entry and Exit;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Canada;
United States;
Europe
Brandenburger, Adam M. "Fog of Business, The." Harvard Business School Case 793-098, January 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point products. Finally, we estimate an increase in revenue of the test...
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Sean Silverthorne