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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
to President George H. W. Bush's "thousand points of light." Fittingly, Roshan is Persian for "light." Hopefully, that's a good sign for Afghanistan's future.
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by Tarun Khanna
- Web
Research - U.S. Competitiveness
Faculty Faculty Desai, Mihir Fuller, Joseph George, Bill Greenwood, Robin Grossman, Allen Kanter, Rosabeth Moss Kaplan, Robert Kerr, William Ketels, Christian Lerner, Josh Mills, Karen Moss, David Nohria, Nitin Norton, Michael Pisano,...
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- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created by it. In this excerpt from Chapter One, he...
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- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
history informs the faculty, which in turn develop materials which allow for an in-depth exploration of organizational dynamics. The “starbursts” session provided brief yet in-depth looks at five unique figures in HBS history: John Lintner, Howard Raiffa, View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching...
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by James K. Sebenius
- Web
Accounting & Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration Tatiana Sandino Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration George Serafeim...
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Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research
Business Administration Eva Ascarza Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Jill J. Avery Senior Lecturer of Business Administration C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator David E. Bell Senior...
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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Richard L. Nolan are professors at Harvard Business School while Shannon O'Donnell is a consultant with Cutter Consortium's Innovation Practice and a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. The three teamed up via email for the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
sort of subscription offering, according to a new industry and background note coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek. And they’re expected to multiply in the years ahead, with subscription View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
It was also stipulated that the policies of each department must maintain a "balance in accord with the underlying policies of the business as a whole."6 In the early 1950s, two professors of business policy at Harvard, View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
Over a dozen years ago, HBS professors Ben Shapiro and Kash Rangan conducted research with colleague John J. Sviokla, focusing on the impact that a company's order management cycle (OMC) has on customers. Think of OMC as the process that...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back
American cities have experienced an alarming double-digit rise in hate crimes in recent years, due in part to factors like anti-Asian sentiment in the wake of the pandemic and racial strife following the murder of George Floyd. Now, new...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... "The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure for the disease it spawned." Rather than address specific policy proposals, HBS View Details
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by Roger Thompson
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business School View Details
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by Manda Mahoney
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Penny George and William W. "Bill" George (MBA 1966) in honor of Bill's 40th Reunion. The former CEO of Medtronic Inc., Bill was awarded the School's highest honor, the Alumni...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, Harvard Business School View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
year, the system has been slow to respond. Other highlights of the conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Virtually present - Meta’s vision for the hybrid workplace Bill Kerr 11 May 2022 News Guardian Finding It Hard to Get a New Job? Robot Recruiters Might Be to Blame Re: Joseph Fuller Yet it is not foolproof. One of the most consequential...
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