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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

remedies that would make things worse, but were against any intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—“it’s above my pay grade.” Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance
  • 28 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

States," Jones says, adding that many of the economies went through transition periods that involved a high degree of state intervention and hyperinflation. Then, by one means or another, the businesses in those economies came out of that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

outcomes of an organization’s immediate interventions or the ability to affect system-wide change. By graphing the two levels of scale against the two levels of impact, we have constructed a four-quadrant framework. Quadrant #1 focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Fellow at HBS, were fortunate to have access to the family leadership and archives of the Koç group through the intervention of the late former Dean of the School, John H. McArthur, who sat on the Board of the holding company. The career... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

information. In contrast, committing to a decision prior to contemplating suspicions precluded individuals from subsequently integrating critical information about the fund’s fraudulent activity. We extend these findings to other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

intervention on an issue or situation, he explained, he would "review the process used by the 'lower court' to determine if it followed the rules. If so, the decision stands." He did not review cases de novo and substitute his... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of radiodiagnosis, nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

use three detailed case studies of state-owned oil companies-Brazil's Petrobras, Norway's Statoil, and Mexico's Pemex-to examine how our theory fares in practice. Overall, we show how mixed enterprises have made progress to solve some of their agency problems, even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

Administration (FDA) and explore how this affects an operational decision-production tool choice-of interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over 6 years, we find that... View Details
  • 21 May 2019
  • News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

intervention at the national, regional or state levels. Increased consumer concern about climate change is also putting pressure on brands and retailers, which will continue to drive change throughout the food supply chain. Impact... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

government intervention persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2217627   Cases & Course MaterialsOcean Mist Farms Bell, David E., Jose B. Alvarez,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

dilemma.) Q: What are you working on next? A: Following up on this research, I am currently studying how both life experiences and designed interventions contribute to our development as leaders. At this point it seems clear that it's not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 by Noel Maurer (Princeton University Press) Throughout the last century, US governments willingly deployed hard and soft power to protect American... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

progress in this realm require government intervention, even if this proves more costly than proactive efforts on the part of management? Or does government intervention tend to negate the competitive benefits for those who have acted... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

the support of public sector firms. Huang argues that state interventions are a breeding ground for corruption, but in Singapore, the government solved this problem in a unique way—by paying civil servants competitively or even better... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

major financial firms to fall into bankruptcy at the same time, no matter how streamlined the process. As both the Bush and the Obama administrations proved, the fear of financial Armageddon is too great. In fact, federal interventions in... View Details
Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an "evaluation nudge"—an View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-111.pdf Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative Authors:Nava Ashraf, Günther Fink, and David N. Weil Abstract Since 2003, Zambia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace