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    Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

    Thomas J. DeLong

    The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers.

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    Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 3 (March 2020): 602-628.

    Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

    Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam

    We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate inflows and outflows. As a result, stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities.

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    Agility Africa

    Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin

    This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying innovative solutions that provide the backbone to growing consumer markets across Africa.

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    Fixing Facebook: Fake News, Privacy, and Platform Governance

    David Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook based on the idea that connecting people was a fundamentally good thing—and a way to turn a handsome profit. But from the beginning, Facebook received criticism both for how it handled user privacy and how it curated user-generated content.

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    Featured Case

    Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys: A Power Couple

    Boris Groysberg, Annelena Lobb and Sarah Mehta

    Set in 2018, this case follows married couple and music industry titans Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys as they consider how best to use their platforms to achieve their goals. As one of the music industry’s most recognizable power couples, Swizz and Keys now considered how they might use their joint platform to continue to drive positive change for artists and creators of all stripes.

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    HBS Working Knowledge

    Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

    Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley Larsen, and Erik Brynjolfsson

    This paper uses new data collected by a digital platform to study the role of occupational licensing laws on individual choices and market outcomes. Results suggest that more stringent licensing laws restrict competition but do not lead to improvements in customer satisfaction.

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    HBS Working Paper

    The Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfire

    Aaron R. Brough, David A. Norton and Leslie John

    Firms typically provide assurances to consumers about data management practices in the form of privacy notices. This manuscript proposes that ironically, such assurances can fuel rather than alleviate privacy concerns. Indeed, we show that consumers react to assurances as if they were warnings – a counterintuitive phenomenon because unlike warnings, which communicate danger, assurances are designed to communicate protection.

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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

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  • Business & Environment

    The Business and Environment Initiative seeks to deepen business leaders' understanding of today’s environmental challenges and to assist them in developing effective solutions.

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    The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship supports Harvard Business School's mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world" by infusing this leadership perspective with an entrepreneurial point of view.

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    The Global Initiative builds on a legacy of global engagement by supporting the HBS community of faculty, students, and alumni in their work, encouraging a global outlook in research, study, and practice.

  • Forum for Growth and Innovation

    The Forum for Growth and Innovation is designed to discover, develop and disseminate robust, accessible theory in the areas of innovation and general management, in order to create a tighter link between research and practice in general management.

  • Health Care

    The Health Care Initiative serves as a gateway for health care research, educational programs, and collaboration across all sectors of the health care industry.

  • Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness

    The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness studies competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems.

  • Leadership

    The Leadership Initiative undertakes cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within HBS and through collaborations with other organizations.

  • Public Education Leadership Project (PELP)

    Faculty members from Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education launched the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) to create and disseminate knowledge about how to manage urban school districts.

  • Social Enterprise

    The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS applies innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change.

  • U.S. Competitiveness

    The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States. The project is committed to identifying practical steps that business leaders can take to strengthen the U.S. economy.

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Discussing President-elect Trump's comments on the pharmaceutical industry with Bill George, Harvard Business School senior fellow and former Medtronic CEO.

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Sam Clemens, InsightSquared Co-Founder, on Product Management Processes
Tom Eisenmann

Sam Clemens is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of InsightSquared, a Boston-based startup. Sam has been a frequent guest instructor in the Product Management 101 elective at Harvard Business School.

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Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Trump’s Political Ascendance
Tarun Khanna

No, I’m not sure President-elect Trump – I have to get used to saying that! – is the greatest entrepreneur, and I don’t propose that we examine how he built a real estate empire to get some tips as would-be

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Faculty in the News

Real Leaders: Rachel Carson Seeds the Environmental Movement
Re: Nancy Koehn
Harvard Business Review, 12 Mar 2020

A proposal to cap provider prices and price growth in the commercial health-care market
By: Leemore Dafny
Brookings Institution, 12 Mar 2020

As Coronavirus Spreads, Should You Have More Cash—or Less?
Re: Shelle Santana
Wall Street Journal, 12 Mar 2020

May I Take Your Order?
Re: Regina Herzlinger
Harvard Medicine Magazine, 11 Mar 2020

The U.S. President faces a triple threat of crises
By: Bill George
Fortune, 11 Mar 2020

Making Sense of the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus
Re: Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer and Mihir Desai
After Hours, 11 Mar 2020

Why Capitalists Need to Save Democracy
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Harvard Business Review, 10 Mar 2020

'They're getting pummeled': Travel industry reeling from coronavirus concerns, anxiety
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USA Today, 10 Mar 2020

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    POSTPONED Adina Sterling, Stanford University

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The Case Method

Introduced by HBS faculty to business education in 1925, the case method is a powerful interactive learning process that puts students in the shoes of a leader faced with a real-world management issue and challenges them to propose and justify a resolution.
Today, HBS remains an authority on teaching by the case method. The School is also the world’s leading case-writing institution, with HBS faculty members contributing hundreds of new cases to the management curriculum a year via the School’s unique case development and writing process.  

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Harvard Business Publishing

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Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales
by Frank V. Cespedes and Tracy DeCicco
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Racial Discrimination on Airbnb: The Role of Platform Design
by Michael Luca, Scott Stern, Devin Cook and Hyunjin Kim
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Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
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