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  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

questions asked within each of these frames and show how they have both enabled and constrained LGBT organizational research. We conclude by calling not only for more attention to the frames organizational scholars adopt when studying... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio Rotemberg
This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

awards, including the Midas Touch Award for Best Investor given by the Economic Times and the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT, Kanpur. Barry (MBA 1999) Family Fellowship Fund The Barry Family Fellowship was established through the... View Details
  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

also have superior economic performance: they are larger in scale, are more profitable, have higher labor productivity and are more likely to export. This consistency was not obvious ex-ante, and being able to quantify these relationships... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

that major participants in the global economy operate by. The three most powerful economic actors in the world—the United States, China, and Europe—are growing further apart in their economic strategies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and affect welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Author:Alnoor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

  • January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details
Keywords: General Management; K-12; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Edtech; Education; Information Technology; Management; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; Boston
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  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

devoted considerable attention to the economics of health care, with a focus on building the intellectual framework for realigning the delivery of health care to maximize value to patients (patient health... View Details
  • Web

Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

reformers, journalists, and photographers brought to national attention poor working conditions experienced by industrial workers. In the ensuing economic climate of the late 1920s and 1930s, many executives... View Details
  • 2018
  • Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee
For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory
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  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2008
  • Article

Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics
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  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing different parts. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Startups-Best-Blog-Posts/dp/1449367879 2006 Journal of Economic Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other domain to sustain the sector devoted to consumption." He is... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising