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- March 2020
- Case
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad, Amy Klopfenstein and Olivia Hull
In 2012, Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code (GWC) with the mission of closing the technology (tech) industry’s gender gap. While GWC offered coding education programs to middle- and high-school-aged girls, the organization also sought to alter cultural stereotypes...
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Keywords:
Coding;
Gender Stereotypes;
Information Technology;
Gender;
Education;
Programs;
Performance Effectiveness;
Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Trelstad, Brian, Amy Klopfenstein, and Olivia Hull. "Girls Who Code." Harvard Business School Case 320-055, March 2020.
- January 2019
- Case
Accenture's Code of Business Ethics
By: Eugene Soltes
Leaders of Accenture’s compliance and ethics program are seeking to design a new code of business ethics for its global workforce of over 400,000 employees. The case explores the decision-making process that went into the design process and ultimately how they created...
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Soltes, Eugene. "Accenture's Code of Business Ethics." Harvard Business School Case 119-049, January 2019.
- January 2019
- Teaching Note
Accenture's Code of Business Ethics
By: Eugene Soltes
Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-049.
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- September 2015
- Article
Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards
By: Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short and Melissa Ouellet
Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs—like certification regimes and codes of conduct—that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We...
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Keywords:
Transnational Regulation;
Labor Standards;
Consumer Politics;
Codes Of Conduct;
Compliance;
Governance Compliance;
Operations;
Globalization;
Labor
Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet. "Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards." Regulation & Governance 9, no. 3 (September 2015): 205–223.
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Two dramatically different approaches to organizational change are being employed in the world today, according to our observations, research, and experience. We call these Theory E and Theory O of change. Like all managerial action, these approaches are guided by very...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Spoken Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Demographics;
Age;
Gender;
Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Learning;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Cognition and Thinking;
Prejudice and Bias;
Power and Influence;
Identity;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Motivation and Incentives;
Society;
Civil Society or Community;
Culture;
Public Opinion;
Social Issues;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Education Industry;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
- 2021
- Book
The Peacemaker's Code
By: Deepak Malhotra
The book's many themes -- war & peace, history, strategy, negotiation, leadership, friendship, & love -- are woven together in a novel with a sci-fi hook and a thrilling premise. The protagonist is a young history professor who is whisked off to Washington, where he...
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Keywords:
Fiction
Malhotra, Deepak. The Peacemaker's Code. Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021. (Winner of the 2021 "National Indie Excellence Award" for Best Science Fiction Novel.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes
By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers
We prove configuration results for extremal Type II codes, analogous to the configuration results of Ozeki and of the second author for extremal Type II lattices. Specifically, we show that for n∈{8,24,32,48,56,72,96} every extremal Type II code of length n is...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods
Elkies, Noam D., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes." Working Paper, March 2015.
- March 2020
- Article
Is This My Group or Not? The Role of Ensemble Coding of Emotional Expressions in Group Categorization
By: Amit Goldenberg, Timothy D. Sweeny, Emmanuel Shpigel and James J. Gross
When exposed to others’ emotional responses, people often make rapid decisions as to whether these others are members of their group or not. These group categorization decisions have been shown to be extremely important to understanding group behavior. Yet, despite...
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Keywords:
Categorization;
Ensemble Coding;
Summary Statistical Perception;
Social Cognition;
Emotions;
Perception;
Groups and Teams
Goldenberg, Amit, Timothy D. Sweeny, Emmanuel Shpigel, and James J. Gross. "Is This My Group or Not? The Role of Ensemble Coding of Emotional Expressions in Group Categorization." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149, no. 3 (March 2020).
- 2007
- Article
Putting Codes into Perspective
By: Lynn Paine
Paine, Lynn. "Putting Codes into Perspective." Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik 8, no. 1 (2007): 29–32.
- 2003
- Working Paper
Coding Manual for the DENA Coding Scheme (Detailed Event Narrative Analysis)
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Jennifer S. Mueller and Susan M. Archambault
- May–June 2000
- Article
Cracking the Code of Change
By: Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria
Keywords:
Change
Beer, Michael, and Nitin Nohria. "Cracking the Code of Change." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 3 (May–June 2000): 133–141.
- 2000
- Book
Breaking the Code of Change
By: Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria
Keywords:
Change
Beer, Michael and Nitin Nohria, eds. Breaking the Code of Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
were asking, 'What standards are we supposed to be adhering to?' " Paine recalls, adding that she heard the same question from executives who, at the time, were facing pressures from many external groups to follow various codes of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- April 2012
- Case
Novozymes: Cracking the Emerging Markets Code
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Karol Misztal
In 2011, the management of Novozymes, the industrial enzymes leader, reflected on the viability of their positioning in the fast growing, yet increasingly competitive Chinese market. Novozymes, a technological innovation pioneer, was prominent in China's premium enzyme...
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Palepu, Krishna G., and Karol Misztal. "Novozymes: Cracking the Emerging Markets Code." Harvard Business School Case 112-084, April 2012.
- October 14, 2019
- Article
Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration
By: Francesca Gino
When most organizations strive to increase collaboration, they approach it too narrowly: as a value to cultivate—not a skill to teach. So they create open offices, talk up collaboration as a corporate goal, and try to influence employees through other superficial means...
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Keywords:
Collaboration;
Listening;
Empathy;
Feedback;
Organizational Culture;
Interpersonal Communication;
Training;
Programs
Gino, Francesca. "Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 73–81.
- 2013
- Chapter
Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes
By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers
We give a new structural development of harmonic polynomials on Hamming space, and harmonic weight enumerators of binary linear codes, that parallels one approach to harmonic polynomials on Euclidean space and weighted theta functions of Euclidean lattices. Namely, we...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods
Elkies, Noam D., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes." In Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. Vol. 31, edited by Alladi Krishnaswami, Manjul Bhargava, David Savitt, and Pham Huu Tiep, 63–108. Developments in Mathematics. Springer, 2013.
- 2011
- Chapter
Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will
By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Keywords:
Free Will;
Neuroscience;
Responsibility;
Prospection;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- winter 2003
- Article
Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes
We introduce the idea of a massively categorical variable, a variable such as zip code that takes on too many values to be treated in the standard manner, and show how to use it directly as explanatory variables in an econometric model. In an application of this...
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Steenburgh, Thomas J., Andrew Ainslie, and Peder Hans Engebretson. "Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes." Marketing Science 22, no. 1 (winter 2003): 40–57.
- February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code
By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak
In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Voting;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Public Sector;
Asset Pricing;
Borrowing and Debt;
Corporate Finance;
Credit;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Debt Securities;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Price;
Government Legislation;
Laws and Statutes;
Bids and Bidding;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Valuation;
Real Estate Industry;
India;
Delhi
Mugford, Kristin, William Vrattos, and Radhika Kak. "Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code." Harvard Business School Case 222-071, February 2022. (Revised May 2022.)