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  • February 2021
  • Teaching Note

Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0
By: Marco Di Maggio, Luis M. Viceira and Julia Kelley
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  • February 2021 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

World of Dreams Entertainment Group: Building a Resilient Business
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Endline and Michael Norris
In 2021, Ron DeShay, former American Idol producer, is launching his new business venture: World of Dreams Entertainment Group. World of Dreams rethought the existing TV production model, giving audiences more power to directly influence the creation of shows through a...  View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Media; Social Issues; Sports; Entertainment And Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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  • February 2021
  • Case

Yellow Digital Retailers, Ltd.: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did...  View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries And Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda
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  • 2021
  • Article

Prisoners, Rooms, and Lightswitches
By: Daniel M. Kane and Scott Duke Kominers
We examine a new variant of the classic prisoners and lightswitches puzzle: A warden leads his n prisoners in and out of r rooms, one at a time, in some order, with each prisoner eventually visiting every room an arbitrarily large number of times. The...  View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • 2021
  • Article

The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe
By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...  View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Activism; Research And Development; Investment; European Union
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  • Article

The EU's Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
A recent report by the EU claims that investor-driven short-termism is encouraging firms to return cash rather than invest it, which reduces capital available for investment in growth. The authors show that the data behind the report do not support its claims and...  View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Sustainability; Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Business And Stakeholder Relations; European Union
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  • January 2021
  • Case

iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
In 2014, Ifeoma Fafunwa, an award-winning playwright and director, founded iOpenEye, a commercial production company dedicated to driving social change through performance art. iOpenEye’s flagship theatrical production was called “Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True,”...  View Details
Keywords: Theatre; Social Change; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Entertainment; Social Issues; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Business Model; Nigeria
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  • 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...  View Details
Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Entrepreneurship; Education; Software; Engineering; Growth And Development Strategy; Africa
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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 Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
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  • January 2021
  • Case

Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos
By: Tsedal Neeley and James Barnett
Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global in scope, he made a bold first step as...  View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Change; Leadership; Technology Industry
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  • January 2021
  • Article

COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action
By: Kevin M. Kniffin, Jayanth Narayanan, Frederik Anseel, John Antonakis, Susan Ashford, Arnold B. Bakker, Peter Bamberger, Hari Bapuji, Devasheesh P. Bhave, Virginia K. Choi, Stephanie Creary, Evangelia Demerouti, Francis J. Flynn, Michele J. Gelfand, Lindred Greer, Gary Johns, Selin Kesebir, Peter G. Klein, Sun Young Lee, Hakan Ozcelik, Jennifer Louise Petriglieri, Nancy Rothbard, Cort W. Rudolph, Jason D. Shaw, Nina Sirola, Connie R. Wanberg, Ashley V. Whillans, Michael P. Wilmot and Mark van Vugt
The impacts of COVID-19 on workers and workplaces across the globe have been dramatic. This broad review of prior research rooted in work and organizational psychology, and related fields, is intended to make sense of the implications for employees, teams, and work...  View Details
Keywords: Covid-19; Work; Work From Home (wfh); Pandemics; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Organizational Change And Adaptation
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  • January 2021
  • Article

How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19
By: Friedrich M. Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon M. Jachimowicz
The spread of COVID-19 within any given country or community at the onset of the pandemic depended in part on the sheltering-in-place rate of its citizens. The pandemic led us to revisit one of psychology’s most fundamental and most basic questions in a high-stakes...  View Details
Keywords: Covid; Covid-19; Pandemic; Shelter-in-place; Personality; Government; Interactionism; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Policy; Governance Compliance
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia Lee Cunningham, Bradley Staats, Francesca Gino and Jochen I. Menges
Across the globe, every workday people commute an average of 38 minutes each way, yet surprisingly little research has examined the implications of this daily routine for work-related outcomes. Integrating theories of boundary work, self-control, and work-family...  View Details
Keywords: Commuting; Boundary Work; Self-control; Work-family Conflict; Prospection; Transition
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively? The...  View Details
Keywords: Helping; Employees; Groups And Teams; Management
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Psychosocial Impacts of Forced Idleness
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra
Social scientists have long posited that employment may deliver psychological utility beyond the value of income alone. Existing literature, however, suffers from problems of selection into employment and an inability to disentangle the pecuniary and non-pecuniary...  View Details
Keywords: Psychosocial Wellbeing; Employment; Refugees; Social Psychology; Well-being
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  • Editorial

Le capitalisme durable menace la durabilité des entreprises
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles CY Wang
Keywords: European Union
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  • December 2020
  • Technical Note

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Without Cutting In | Note on the Development of Endoscopy (through the 1990s)
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
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  • December 2020
  • Supplement

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Minimally Invasive | Note on the Development of Laparoscopic Surgery (B) (2000-2005)
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin Bowler
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  • December 2020
  • Technical Note

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Beyond traditional X-rays | Note on the Development of Computed Tomography (through the 1990s)
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
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  • December 2020
  • Case

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Controversial Blockbuster | Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
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