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- 2017
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Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter places the concepts of ethical capitalism developed by the 19th century Japanese venture capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of...
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Corporate Responsibility;
Business Ethics;
Ethics;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business History;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Jones, Geoffrey. "Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism." Chap. 7 in Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective, edited by Patrick Fridenson and Takeo Kikkawa, 144–169. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
chances of the consultants learning something useful from the failed relationship, but requires profound personal curiosity to learn what the answers might be. Blaming the client is much more simple, comfortable, and common.3 Recent research in the hospital setting by...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
works ever since. But the main reason I wrote this book is the tremendous resonance his ideas have had with my HBS students and with businesspeople. I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw...
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- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile four AASU members with...
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- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
This is an abridged version of the ''Finding Pride" story, originally published on the Harvard Business School's Alumni website. In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling...
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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
The first MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID joint degree programs are 10 years old! 89% of HBS | HKS joint degree alumni have told us that they worked in a role allowing usage of both degrees. Learn more about a few members from the Class of 2011...
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- 21 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Harvard Square's Hidden History
Harvard Square is just a short walk over the bridge from HBS campus and has countless restaurants, shops, and plenty to do. On a recent Harvard Square burrito run, one of my section mates remarked that he wished he knew more about the...
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- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research...
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by Manda Salls
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense knowledge to benefit mankind? Not so fast, say View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, 2015 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Boston Consulting Group, Amazon, U.S. Department of State HBS ACTIVITIES Admissions Rep, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Pride COO, View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
HBS that fall, I showed up to my first PRIDE club happy hour and walking into it, I was the most nervous I had ever been in any social setting. It felt like an unveiling of this deep, hidden aspect of my...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
dynamic, historical account of the events that have shaped the brand over time. Using a particular type of brand biography, "the underdog," we empirically show how managers can strategically use brand biographies in brand...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by consumers looking for sellers (stores)....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
estate values in the world. “Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India." —Lakshmi Iyer In "Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum," HBS assistant professor Lakshmi...
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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Business School. “They need to cut expenses to the bone to ride out this crisis.” Stanton worked with HBS colleagues Michael Luca and Zoe Cullen; Harvard University economics professor Ed Glaeser; and Alex Bartik of the University of...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the...
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Forecasting and Prediction;
Cost;
Framework;
Policy;
Taxation;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance Efficiency;
United States
Weinzierl, Matthew. "~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-064, January 2012. (Revised August 2012. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18045, August 2012)
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Annual Cost of Attendance - MBA
Fellowship At HBS, we consider getting your MBA a shared investment in your future . Our students meet the annual cost of our MBA program through scholarships, savings, and student loans. The HBS Cost of Attendance includes both direct...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Are financial crises predictable? Former United States Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke has had his doubts. Economics can show policymakers “precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong,” he told Princeton University...
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