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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
individual companies. The research team set out to examine whether these measures of CSR correlate to the languages spoken in each company's home country. Language Matters Their findings, contained in a new working paper titled "Speaking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
the question Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julie Battilana and doctoral candidate Matthew Lee ask in a new working paper, How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures. "It's much harder... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
group, if it existed today, could be. What would their key activities be in our current era? Bower and Paine: We see a new CED as a possible response to the challenge of scaling up the kinds of work by individual firms that we describe in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"By emphasizing some aspects of the job over others, you can draw a different pool of candidates and potentially create different levels of performance," Ashraf says. "And as a leader you can help every individual to accumulate more stock... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
forthcoming The Economics of Artificial Intelligence The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation By: Cockburn, Iain M., Rebecca Henderson, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
restrictions risk losing out on the ability to collaborate with colleagues. Such interruptions in communication could negatively impact both job prospects for individual workers and the productivity of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
impact of these advances? A: One of the biggest impacts of this work has been the trend toward micro-targeting. A company may have millions of individual customers, but now... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation"While each of our View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out the vote. But it was 2016 presidential campaign that really changed social media’s impact on... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
the ethnic assignment is at the individual patent level. There are over 7 million inventors associated with U.S. patents since 1975. This micro-level assignment allows us to characterize ethnic contributions at levels of detail not... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54148 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organizations is circumscribed by their impact on financial results. The social impact of organizations essentially took a back seat. This tendency concerns us for two reasons. First, as many critics of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
paper, The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US, was co-authored by Marco E. Tabellini, Harvard Business School; Marius Faber, Basel University; and Andres Sarto, Princeton University. It turns out, say the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
Freeman would ask, "... how will the selected individual handle power?" Edward Hare suggested that results fall short of expectations "... because we don't understand motives (of the candidate for the leadership position)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne