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      • March–April 2021
      • Article

      Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them

      By: Jodi L Short and Michael W. Toffel
      The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of conduct on their suppliers and perform audits to assess compliance. Do these measures help identify unethical...  View Details
      Keywords: Auditing; Supply Chain; Agency Cost; Quality And Safety; Quality; Quality Management System; Quality Management; Unions; Wages; Environmental Management; Globalization; Goods And Commodities; Governance; Labor; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Operations; Supply Chain; Safety; China; Bangladesh; Asia; Pakistan
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      Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 2 (March–April 2021).
      • February 2021
      • Tutorial

      Getting Started in R Cloud Studio

      By: Chiara Farronato and Caleb Kwon
      This video provides an introduction to the free programming language R using an online cloud version of RStudio, which is the most popular editor and interface for writing and executing R code. The video begins by providing a brief background of R and RStudio and...  View Details
      Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Experiment; Experimental Design
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      Farronato, Chiara, and Caleb Kwon. Getting Started in R Cloud Studio. Harvard Business School Tutorial 621-708, February 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Leading Culture Change at SEB

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Elena Corsi
      SEB Chief Risk Officer department had gone through a culture change program of four months based on boosting three skills: psychological safety, empathic listening and strategic frame. The program had allowed the CRO teams to make progress on strategic challenges and...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Risk And Uncertainty; Leading Change; Banking Industry; Sweden
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Elena Corsi. "Leading Culture Change at SEB." Harvard Business School Case 621-074, February 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Technical Note

      Probability Distributions

      By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton
      This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal and binomial distributions. After a brief introduction to random variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Risk And Uncertainty; Theory
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      Parzen, Michael, and Paul J. Hamilton. "Probability Distributions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 621-704, February 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing

      By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
      We use the design of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health consequences of cost-sharing. First, we show that an as-if-random increase of 33.6% in out-of-pocket price (11.0 percentage points (p.p.) change in...  View Details
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      Chandra, Amitabh, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer. "The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28439, February 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Do white collar workers with lower social status in the occupational hierarchy die younger? The influential Whitehall studies of British civil servants identified a strong inverse relationship between employment rank and mortality, but we do not know if this effect...  View Details
      Keywords: Mortality; Status; Socioeconomic Determinants Of Health
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      Nicholas, Tom. "Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-080, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Teaching Note

      The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)

      By: Ashley V. Whillans
      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...  View Details
      Keywords: Non-cash Compensation; Behavioral Science; Employees; Well-being; Compensation And Benefits; United Kingdom
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      Whillans, Ashley V. "The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-021, January 2021.
      • January 2021 (Revised January 2021)
      • Case

      THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)

      By: Jill Avery, Ayelet Israeli and Emma von Maur
      THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women’s fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm that used data science and machine learning to create and deliver a personalized store for every shopper, based on...  View Details
      Keywords: Data; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Ai; Ai Algorithms; Ai Creativity; Fashion; Retail; Retail Analytics; Digital Marketing; E-commerce; E-commerce Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Marketing Strategy; Brands And Branding; Consumer Behavior; Big Data; Preference Elicitation; Preference Prediction; Predictive Analytics; App Development; Marketing Channels; "marketing Analytics"; Advertising; Mobile App; Mobile Marketing; Apparel; Online Advertising; Referral Rewards; Referrals; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Data And Data Sets; Analysis; Creativity; Marketing Strategy; Brands And Branding; Consumer Behavior; Demand And Consumers; Forecasting And Prediction; Online Advertising; Online Technology; Mobile Technology; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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      Avery, Jill, Ayelet Israeli, and Emma von Maur. "THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Harvard Business School Case 521-070, January 2021. (Revised January 2021.)
      • January 2021
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      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...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting And Prediction; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Personal Finance; Saving; Risk And Uncertainty; Diversification; Theory; Financial Services Industry
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      Parzen, Michael, and Paul J. Hamilton. "The FIRE Savings Calculator." Harvard Business School Case 621-087, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data

      By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This case introduces a new Amazon program that has consumers upload their receipts from transactions outside of Amazon, in exchange for money. Through the discussion, the case aims to exlpore issues in customers’ privacy in the digital age, the value of customers’ own...  View Details
      Keywords: Data Analytics; Data Privacy; Data Management; "marketing Analytics"; Marketing Communication; Marketing Research; Data-driven Management; E-commerce; E-commerce Strategy; Ethical Decision Making; Crm; Consumer Protection; Targeted Advertising; Targeted Policies; Data Ownership; Marketing; Research; Marketing Communications; Data And Data Sets; Management; Customer Relationship Management; Ethics; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data." Harvard Business School Case 521-058, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Article

      Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified...  View Details
      Keywords: Salesforce Management; Selection And Staffing; Human Resources
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      Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
      • 15 Dec 2020
      • Panel Discussion

      Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects

      By: Maya Zinshstein, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil and James K. Sebenius
      Sponsored by Harvard's Program on Negotiation, I moderated and contributed to a discussion of the film "Til Kingdom Come" among the film's director, producer, and a renowned scholar.  View Details
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      Zinshstein, Maya, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil, and James K. Sebenius. "Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, December 15, 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Role of Constraints in Creative Problem-Solving: Field Experimental Evidence from a Community Crowdsourcing Program in a Consumer Electronics Company

      By: Daniel Ehls, Karim R. Lakhani and Jacqueline N. Lane
      The role of constraints in the problem solving process has been a central line of inquiry in the creativity and innovation literature with ongoing debates of whether constraints imposed on creative problem solvers diminish or enhance their efforts and outputs. We...  View Details
      Keywords: Problem Solving; Constraints; Crowdsourcing; Field Experiment; Problems And Challenges; Creativity; Collaborative Innovation And Invention
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      Ehls, Daniel, Karim R. Lakhani, and Jacqueline N. Lane. "The Role of Constraints in Creative Problem-Solving: Field Experimental Evidence from a Community Crowdsourcing Program in a Consumer Electronics Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-068, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      BRAC in 2020

      By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
      In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; programs; Management; Growth And Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia
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      Khanna, Tarun, and Shreya Ramachandran. "BRAC in 2020." Harvard Business School Case 721-416, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor Bojnov and Emma Salomon
      Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
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      Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Iavor Bojnov, and Emma Salomon. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 621-035, November 2020.
      • November 2020
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      Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce

      By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
      Founded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with ‘education as a benefit.’ The Denver-based company is transforming traditional tuition assistance programs by facilitating direct payment by...  View Details
      Keywords: Education; Market Platforms; Technology; Employees; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Technology Industry; Colorado
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      Sahlman, William A., Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller, and Alpana Thapar. "Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce." Harvard Business School Case 821-050, November 2020.
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      Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors

      By: J.J. Zlatev and Rogers, T.
      Increasing virtuous behaviors, such as initiating healthy habits, is an important goal for policymakers and social scientists. To promote compliance with requests to perform virtuous behaviors, we study “returnable reciprocity.” Whereas traditional reciprocity involves...  View Details
      Keywords: Nudges; Reciprocity; Want-should Conflicts; Wellness; Health; Behavior; Change; Well-being
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      Zlatev, J.J., and Rogers, T. "Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161, Supplement (November 2020): 74–84.
      • November 2020
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      Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand

      By: Daniel Green, Brian Melzer, Jonathan Parker and Arcenis Rojas
      This paper evaluates the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) by comparing the vehicle purchases and disposals of households with eligible "clunkers" to those of households with similar, but ineligible, vehicles. CARS caused roughly 500,000 purchases during the program...  View Details
      Keywords: Automobiles; Purchasing; Government Incentives; Household; Financial Liquidity; Income; Behavior
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      Green, Daniel, Brian Melzer, Jonathan Parker, and Arcenis Rojas. "Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12, no. 4 (November 2020): 178–211.
      • October 2020
      • Teaching Plan

      Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines

      By: Willy C. Shih
      COVID-19 infections were still climbing across the U.S. and many other parts of the world in September 2020, and it seemed that every time Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co. consented to an interview in recent months he always seemed to hear the same question,...  View Details
      Keywords: Vaccines; Health Pandemics; Health Testing And Trials; Innovation And Management; Innovation Strategy; Research And Development; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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      Shih, Willy C. "Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 621-067, October 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      The Akamai Technical Academy

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett
      By January 2020, Akamai Technologies had completed eight Akamai Technical Academy training programs in the U.S., Costa Rica, and Poland. Academy programs trained individuals without a traditional STEM degree for technically oriented jobs at Akamai. With aims to improve...  View Details
      Keywords: Competency And Skills; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Demographics; Education; Ethics; Jobs And Positions; Technology Industry; United States; Costa Rica; Poland
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and James Barnett. "The Akamai Technical Academy." Harvard Business School Case 821-021, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
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