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13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

a strange human tendency to value effort independent of outcome," says Norton. "If you appear to be working hard and sweating, people will assume you are doing a good job." There's an app for that Buell and Norton put that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

sets up a theoretical framework for examining today's norms. Right now in the marketplace, the lines between open science, public knowledge, and proprietary knowledge and research are becoming blurred. A lot of firms are publishing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Jun 2004
News

Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn to reap the market rewards of a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

"The fans don't realize the weaknesses existed even during the good times," he told an audience of Harvard Business School students and faculty members on Tuesday. "The team was never as good... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, media outlets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, and in a stroke of good fortune, he made accessibility to toilets a top priority in one of his earliest public addresses. “People may criticize me for talking... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

13 Nov 2020
News

A Passion for Education

teaching her four-year-old how to read, Ryan’s mother visited his public kindergarten and realized he wouldn’t receive the level of learning he deserved, so she enrolled him in a local parochial school. “I couldn’t have had better... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

there was a good fit between my background and the requirements for leading this agency. In the aftermath of 9/11, I also had a desire to get back into public service. How did you approach the job? I took... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

particular use their talents flexibly; (3) encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

installment plans. Manufacturers produced trade catalogs to identify finished goods by name or stock number for sale either to retailers or directly to the consumer. The extensive holdings of trade catalogs at Baker Library range from the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

between hard work and good luck. Leading us through the pivot into the digital era has been gut-wrenching at times. People didn’t care about the 50 years of work that had come before. It was a process of dissolving while evolving. In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and... View Details