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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Oberholzer-Gee. "It's important to have reasonable expectations about the consequences of that engagement, and hopefully that makes it more sustainable over time." In other words, while doing good may be its own reward, sometimes it may be the only reward. It's up to... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog
contributing to a flowering of individual freedom and possibility that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors. Today, however, increasing global crises are posing the greatest threat this economic system has faced. Reimagining... View Details
- 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 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
- 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
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Philippe Taieb
since 2013. Besides providing career counseling, Philippe assists his clients with what keeps them up at night and what their pain points are. He enjoys meaningful connections. Philippe has 25 years of professional experience, in the corporate world and in the social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
also considered the impact of business as a poverty alleviator and whether business engagement alone is sufficient to lift individuals out of poverty broadly. “The aim of the conference and the resulting,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the relationship between customers and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in 1959 had an enormous View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- Profile
Stephen Mathew
My classmates' diverse perspectives helped me not only understand complex business concepts but also how they can be effectively used in different industries, countries, and functions. Most importantly, they helped me piece together the big picture to see how our View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
causes of all this that you lay out in the book is what you refer to as the “great wealth migration.” Can you talk about the great wealth migration? Define it and tell us a little bit about its impact on the economy. RS: So the great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
African-American graduates. The H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship of Business Administration, the first chair at the School to be named for an African American, was recently established in his honor with gifts from more than three hundred View Details
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog
impact on material prosperity. Students will encounter several different units of analysis: much of the focus of the course is on the individual business leader and entrepreneur, but the worker, the company,... View Details
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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library
words and subjects to describe and catalog these collections. The language used in these descriptions continues to evolve over time. Words or phrases used in the past may now be considered outdated or even offensive, while individuals or... View Details