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    • HBS Book

    Negotiation: The Game Has Changed

    By: Max Bazerman

    The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years—and so has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic globalization, and greater workplace diversity—all have transformed the who, what, where, and how of negotiation. Today, traditional negotiating tactics, while still effective, need to be tailored to vastly different situations and circumstances. In Negotiation: The Game Has Changed, legendary Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman, a pioneer in the field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to reach an agreement over Zoom or during a supply chain crisis.

    • HBS Book

    Negotiation: The Game Has Changed

    By: Max Bazerman

    The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years—and so has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic globalization, and greater workplace diversity—all have transformed the who, what, where, and how of negotiation. Today, traditional negotiating tactics, while still...

    • Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025).

    Optimal Illiquidity

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

    We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected penalties are rebated lump sum. When households have homogeneous present bias, β, the social optimum is well approximated by a single account with an early-withdrawal penalty of 1 − β. When households have heterogeneous present bias, the social optimum is well approximated by a two-account system: (i) an account that is completely liquid and (ii) an account that is completely illiquid until retirement.

    • Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025).

    Optimal Illiquidity

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

    We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected penalties are rebated lump sum. When households have homogeneous present bias,...

    • Health Care Initiative

    Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna

    We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and other patients were largest for diagnoses commonly requiring prescriptions, which physicians often self-prescribed. Our results suggest that improving access to prescriptions for acute symptoms, more than improving patient education, may reduce avoidable health care.

    • Health Care Initiative

    Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna

    We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and...

    • Featured Case

    Blue Owl Financing of Ping Identity

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu

    In the fall of 2022, Blue Owl Capital's investment committee evaluated a potential investment in the technology sector. The proposed transaction centered on Ping Identity Corporation (“Ping”), a fast-growing identity access management (IAM) software company that was being taken private by Thoma Bravo. Blue Owl was invited to play a leading role in an $875 million debt financing package to support the acquisition. Ping’s strong fundamentals made the opportunity appealing: the company operated in a high-growth market, generated the majority of its revenues from subscription-based services, and demonstrated significant growth in its product offerings and customer base. However, despite these strengths, Ping had yet to generate meaningful cash flow. This presented Blue Owl with a high-risk, high-reward scenario. The critical question for the team was whether Blue Owl should proceed with the transaction despite the risks, and whether the proposed deal structure offered adequate protection against potential downsides.

    • Featured Case

    Blue Owl Financing of Ping Identity

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu

    In the fall of 2022, Blue Owl Capital's investment committee evaluated a potential investment in the technology sector. The proposed transaction centered on Ping Identity Corporation (“Ping”), a fast-growing identity access management (IAM) software company that was being taken private by Thoma Bravo. Blue Owl was invited to play a leading role in...

    • Featured Case

    Setting a CEO Agenda: Ole Rosgaard at Greif

    By: Krishna Palepu and Kerry Herman

    Since taking over as CEO of industrial packaging giant Greif, Ole Rosgaard has focused on growing the company and improving the perception of its value by the capital markets. He and his senior leadership team have made inroads to this end, including adjusting the company’s portfolio mix to higher-margin businesses and affirming and strengthening Greif’s strong culture. In partnership with the company’s board chair, Rosgaard worked to make changes to the board composition and board routines to create more board engagement with the company’s strategy and transformation. Have these efforts been enough?

    • Featured Case

    Setting a CEO Agenda: Ole Rosgaard at Greif

    By: Krishna Palepu and Kerry Herman

    Since taking over as CEO of industrial packaging giant Greif, Ole Rosgaard has focused on growing the company and improving the perception of its value by the capital markets. He and his senior leadership team have made inroads to this end, including adjusting the company’s portfolio mix to higher-margin businesses and affirming and strengthening...

    • HBS Working Paper

    Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables

    By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo

    We show that when firms compete via supply functions, transferring high-cost capacity to the largest, most efficient firm—thereby diversifying its production technologies while increasing concentration—can lower prices by prompting the leader to expand output and competitors to aggressively defend market shares. However, large transfers prove anticompetitive, as sizable capacity differences discourage price undercutting. Exploiting renewable intermittencies in Colombia’s electricity market, where firms are technology-diversified, we consistently find a U-shape relationship between prices and concentration. Counterfactually reallocating 30% of competitors’ high-cost capacities to the leader cuts prices 10%, while larger transfers raise them, revealing how capacity and efficiency influence market power.

    • HBS Working Paper

    Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables

    By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo

    We show that when firms compete via supply functions, transferring high-cost capacity to the largest, most efficient firm—thereby diversifying its production technologies while increasing concentration—can lower prices by prompting the leader to expand output and competitors to aggressively defend market shares. However, large transfers prove...

    • Working Paper

    Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez

    This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major U.S. retailers to Harmonized System (HS) codes and import origins, we construct custom price indices that isolate the direct effects of tariff changes across product categories and trading partners. Our analysis reveals rapid pricing responses, though their magnitude remains modest relative to the announced tariff rates and varies by country of origin. Both imported and domestic goods are affected, suggesting broader pricing and supply chain spillovers. These findings offer timely evidence for policymakers, businesses, and consumers navigating the immediate consequences of trade policy changes.

    • Working Paper

    Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez

    This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major U.S. retailers to Harmonized System (HS) codes and import origins, we construct...

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Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna
  • September 2025 |
  • Article |
  • Journal of Development Economics
This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment effects. The intervention improves self-reported fertilizer management practices, though not enough to measurably affect yields. Satellite measurements calibrated using OLS produce more precise point estimates than farmer-reported data, suggesting power gains. However, linear models, common in the literature, likely produce biased estimates. We propose an alternative procedure, using two-stage least squares. In settings without attrition, this approach obtains lower statistical power than self-reported yields; in settings with differential attrition, it may substantially increase power. We include a “cookbook'' and code that should allow other researchers to use remote sensing for yield estimation and program evaluation.
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Cole, Shawn, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen, and Aparna Krishna. "Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India." Journal of Development Economics 176 (September 2025).

Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka
  • May–June 2025 |
  • Article |
  • Harvard Business Review
Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become a primary way in which consumers connect with others, pay for things, and store private information, that view needs to change. The authors contend that companies must embed safeguards into the core of their digital products—starting during the earliest parts of the design process. They must also establish a road map for continued improvement and a dialogue with customers. The safety-by-design model can facilitate innovation rather than constrain it by providing a principled approach to product development.
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Amano, Tomomichi, and Tomomi Tanaka. "Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 3 (May–June 2025): 120–127.

A Decade of Corporate Governance Reform in Japan (2013-2023)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Akiko Kanno
  • May 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
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Wang, Charles C.Y., and Akiko Kanno. "A Decade of Corporate Governance Reform in Japan (2013-2023)." Harvard Business School Case 125-088, May 2025.

The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization

By: Henry McGee
  • May 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive media environment.
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McGee, Henry. "The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization." Harvard Business School Case 825-086, May 2025.

Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy

By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Mehta
  • May 2025 |
  • Teaching Note |
  • Faculty Research
A teaching note to help instructors prepare to teach “Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy (case no. 524-054).
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Ofek, Elie, and Sarah Mehta. "Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 525-047, May 2025.

The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation

By: Tsedal Neeley
  • May 2025 |
  • Teaching Note |
  • Faculty Research
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 425-720. Florian Hillen, co-founder and CEO of VideaHealth, a startup using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect dental conditions on x-rays, spent the early years of his company laying the groundwork for an AI factory. This AI factory, designed to rapidly build and iterate on new AI products, was central to Hillen's vision of giving VideaHealth a competitive edge in the market. VideaHealth’s AI technology aspires to detect dental conditions on x-rays with a level of accuracy and consistency that would resonate with the needs of both individual dentists and Dental Service Organizations (DSOs). Yet, the puzzle remained: how precise and reliable would the AI's performance need to be to earn the trust of practitioners, enhance patient care, and seamlessly integrate into clinical workflows? The exact threshold of success was unclear, challenging Hillen to ensure the AI factory could continuously refine the technology to improve decision-making in dental practices.
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Neeley, Tsedal. "The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 425-102, May 2025.

Mission First at Coinbase

By: Charles CY Wang and Brian K. Baik
  • May 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
This case study examines the organizational tensions at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase as executives Brian Armstrong, Emilie Choi, and L.J. Brock implemented controversial talent management strategies to support their mission of increasing economic freedom through crypto. The case delves into the design of management control systems—including beliefs, boundaries, and incentives—that help managers balance the tension between growth and control in a volatile industry. Coinbase's controversial "no politics" workplace policy, which prohibited discussions unrelated to the company's mission, represents a pivotal example of how the company established clear cultural boundaries. As Coinbase evaluated its "talent density" initiative with structured cognitive assessments, standardized compensation, and rigorous performance management, leadership must weigh whether their mission-focused approach creates sustainable competitive advantage or potentially limits diversity and inclusion. The case, set in 2024, explores how these organizational practices can either facilitate or hinder a company's ability to attract top talent while maintaining cultural cohesion through periods of rapid growth and market turbulence.
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Wang, Charles CY, and Brian K. Baik. "Mission First at Coinbase." Harvard Business School Case 125-103, May 2025.

BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?

By: Jan Rivkin
  • May 2025 |
  • Teaching Note |
  • Faculty Research
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 717-484 and 717-404.
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Rivkin, Jan. "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 725-459, May 2025.
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