Publications

06 May 2013
News

How Sporting Events and Natural Disasters Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

03 Nov 2022
News

A Natural Experiment Shows Electric Scooters Really Do Cut Traffic

14 Jul 2020
News

Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?

25 Apr 2014
News

Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other

Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that View Details

March 2018
Case

A Nonprofit Board in Transition at Farrington Nature Linc

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily Irving

Educators

2006
Working Paper

Natural Resources, Institutions, and Civil War: Lessons from Mexico

By: Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer and Armando Razo

March 2020
Article

Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos A. Makridis

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Innovation; Productivity; Management; Alignment; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; India

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April 2020
Supplement

Promoting Land and Nature Jerky, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine B. Hartman

April 2020
Supplement

Promoting Land and Nature Jerky, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine B. Hartman

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Negotiating for Development: A New Paradigm for Natural Resource Agreements

By: Eric D. Werker

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Development Economics; Natural Environment

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August 2018
Case

Israel — An Energy Leviathan?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

In the last decade, Noble Energy and the Delek Group have discovered almost 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas offshore of Israel. For Israel, this has been an extraordinary turnaround, from energy dependence on Arab producers to energy independence and exporter.... View Details

Keywords: Natural Gas; Energy; Energy Sources; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; Israel

Educators

2002
Book

Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc Ventresca

This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Regulation

Article

Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Oded Galor

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Transformation

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2009
Book

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

By: Richard Bohmer

Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture