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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
society—its state capacity—in situations that require national unity, such as wars, says Tabellini. He teamed with Nancy Qian, a professor of managerial economics at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, to study volunteer military... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
long-term rates By: Samuel G. Hanson , David O. Lucca & Jonathan Wright APR 2021 The sensitivity of long-term interest rates to movements in short-term rates is a central feature of the term structure. It plays a crucial role in the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, inaugurating dozens of new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
the innovators' products tended to be more homogeneous as a group. "It seems that the innovators understand and build off each other's ideas better than the imitators do," Verganti remarks. "They innovate in a circle; it's a similar dynamic to what... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how protests and boycotts drag companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
loans, came to HBS after working in development at the World Bank. “The School absolutely transformed my life,” he says. Over the years, Ben and Victoria Feder have supported three key priorities at the School: the HBS Fund, the Gender... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
choose an all-white group. Decades of diversity initiatives have failed to drastically alter the American executive suite, especially for Black people, who hold only 3.2 percent of senior executive roles. While the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While these plans aim to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity
Sexual Harassment In 2018, as the #MeToo movement brought new attention to the prevalence of sexual harassment at work, we asked Harvard Business School alumni* about harassment and misconduct in their... View Details
- Web
Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union
Harvard Business School Bulletin noted on AASU's 25th anniversary, "when the civil rights movement forced America's mainstream institutions to acknowledge the shortcomings of their policies, practices, and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
marketers are feeling pressure to show ROI.” Still, since those first Facebook ads were posted in 2004, social media has proven itself a valuable tool for helping companies create consumer perceptions about particular brands (Old Spice) and has even sparked social... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
historically been left behind.”[32] There is also $60 million for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act,[33] rebates which aim to reduce emissions around goods movement facilities and to address the health effects of those emissions on DACs.... View Details