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  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

been using Clarivate Web of Science to collect citation and reference patterns from more than 12,000 works across 15 disciplines published as of 2015, with the goal of exploring the role of geographic proximity on the evolution of ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Business of K-12 Education in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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Hiring Organizations

Collective Empyrean Capital Enaex Endeavour Capital Endiya Partners Energetic Insurance energyRe Engine, The Environmental Financial Consulting Group - EFCG EQT Group Equal Justice Initiative Equator Era Ventures Eurazeo EVCS Eventide Asset Management Evercore View Details
  • 2020
  • Article

A Practical Approach to Sales Compensation: What Do We Know Now? What Should We Know in the Future?

By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Niladri B. Syam
Personal selling represents one of the most important elements in the marketing mix, and appropriate management of the sales force is vital to achieving the organization’s objectives. Among the various instruments of sales management, compensation plays a pivotal role... View Details
Keywords: Sales Compensation; Sales Management; Sales Strategy; Principal-agent Theory; Structural Econometrics; Field Experiments; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; AI and Machine Learning
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Managing the Future of Work

through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant's journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new models of work and ways companies are mobilizing talent internal and... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction describes the formation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

focus on your, you know-- my job and my classes and my money and my lunch and my coute. So boring. It's just so tedious. If you zoom out, wow, life changes. And you need to do that every day. Look, for me, I'm a Catholic. It's the most important thing in my life,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

monitoring efforts as well as the syndication process. Working Papers The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract : We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World

By: Ranjay Gulati
"In the early twenty-first century, customers are more demanding than ever, and difficult economic times make them all the more so. As customers tighten their wallets and increase their demands, firms face greater pressure to provide superior customer value. Reducing... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Behavior; Product Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Value Creation
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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Hövding: The Airbag for Cyclists

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emilie Billaud
In 2012, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, co¬founders of the Hövding company, reflect on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. Since 2005, Haupt and Alstin had been working on a new type of bicycle helmet—an "airbag for cyclists." What had begun as a thesis... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Transition; Leadership; Conflict Management; Bicycle Industry; Sweden; Europe
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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

ecological, societal, and cultural developments in a harmonious way.” Download Transcript Argentina Arturo Acevedo President, Grupo Arcelor Mittal (Acindar) (Steel and Mining) “It is important to clearly define social responsibility. We... View Details
  • Web

The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

had an international presence in the world economy. “U.S. Steel was a giant—or a monster, depending on one’s perspective,” B. Mark Smith writes in Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market . 3 At Harvard... View Details
  • 2013
  • Book

Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management

By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Management; Natural Environment
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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Franklin Qian and Florian Zimmermann A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP.... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

observe so much diversity in the regulation of national consumer markets. For this purpose, I needed countries that were economically and politically similar. There are no perfect experiments in the social sciences, but the French and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities