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- February 2021
- Article
Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession
By: S. Bernstein, T. McQuade and R. Townsend
We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and, in turn, economic downturns. Specifically, we compare the output of innovative workers who experienced differential declines in housing wealth during the financial crisis...
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Keywords:
Great Recession;
Household;
Financial Condition;
System Shocks;
Employees;
Performance Productivity
Bernstein, S., T. McQuade, and R. Townsend. "Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession." Journal of Finance 76, no. 1 (February 2021): 57–111.
- Article
Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains
By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
This article analyzes how the geography and organization of pre- and production stages in Global Value Chains (GVC) contribute to lead firms' innovation development. A novel approach in GVC studies is introduced based on transaction cost economics (TCE) and the...
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Keywords:
Gvc;
Global Value Chains;
Manufacturing;
Production;
Global Range;
Innovation And Invention
Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano. "Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains." Art. 101167. Journal of World Business 56, no. 2 (February 2021).
- January 2021
- Supplement
Barbara Krakow Gallery (B): Art and the Pandemic
By: Jose B. Alvarez and David Lane
Updates (A) case by describing the early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the art market, the renaming of the gallery as the Krakow Witkin Gallery, and the response of its partners and staff to the pandemic.
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- January 2021
- Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)
By: George A Riedel
Dick's Sproting Goods were one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and speficially following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading...
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- January 14, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There." The Atlantic (January 14, 2021).
- January 2021
- Case
Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal
The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Finance;
Behavioral Finance;
Insurance;
Health;
Health Care And Treatment;
Human Resources;
Compensation And Benefits;
Markets;
Demand And Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Social Psychology;
Behavior;
Interests;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perception;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
North America;
United States
- 2021
- Working Paper
Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement
By: George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability diminishes for firms with large disagreement between raters. Relation between news and...
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Keywords:
Esg;
Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Esg Disclosure;
Esg Ratings;
Esg Reporting;
Esg Disclosure Metrics;
Sustainability;
Investments;
News;
Disagreement;
Rating Disagreement;
Ratings;
Finance;
Accounting;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry
Serafeim, George, and Aaron Yoon. "Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-079, January 2021.
- January 2021
- Teaching Note
Clear Link Technologies: LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects
By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
- January 2021
- Teaching Note
The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)
This case describes the experiences of Michael Sanders—the Chief Executive of the What Works Center for Children’s Social Care—as he led the design and implementation of a program of research aimed at improving the social care system in the United Kingdom (UK) at the...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking
By: Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Multinational corporations (MNCs) hire auditors to assess their business partners’ compliance with quality, working conditions, and environmental standards. Independent third-party auditors are widely assumed to outperform second-party auditors employed and thus...
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Keywords:
Transaction Cost Economics;
Outsourcing;
Suppliers;
Monitoring;
Business Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Supply Chain Management;
Quality;
Safety;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Apparel And Accessories Industry;
Retail Industry;
China;
India;
Bangladesh
Palmarozzo, Ashley, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-078, January 2021.
- January 2021
- Case
Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an...
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- January 2021
- Case
mPharma (A)
By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Acquisition;
Health;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Ghana
- January 2021
- Supplement
mPharma (B)
By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business...
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- January 2021
- Case
Love It or List It: An Aging Asset on Sixth Ave
By: Charles F. Wu, Moe Bakri, Mimi DiSipio, Clay Macfarlane, Sam Rashin and Baruch Shemtov
Keywords:
Real Estate
- January 2021
- Teaching Note
Love It or List It: An Aging Asset on Sixth Ave
By: Charles F. Wu and Sean Bracken
- January 2021
- Case
The FIRE Savings Calculator
By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton
This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the...
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- January 2021
- Technical Note
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)
By: Amar Bhide, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
Bhide, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-062, January 2021.
- January 2021
- Case
eToro: Building the World’s Largest Social Trading Network
By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
Social trading platform eToro was preparing for the launch of its expanded offering in the U.S. The company faced critical decisions regarding product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, positioning and monetization. Moreover, it faced the challenge of how best to make...
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Ofek, Elie, and Danielle Golan. "eToro: Building the World’s Largest Social Trading Network." Harvard Business School Case 521-057, January 2021.