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  • 20 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
  • Research Summary

Fairness and Efficiency in Resource Allocation

In studying the relationship of fairness and efficiency, Professor Trichakis takes the novel approach of looking at varied industries for unifying factors, and he pays special attention to inequities by incorporating both quantitative work in social welfare and the... View Details

  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism

By: Richard L. Nolan
Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

context of race within today's dynamic and diverse organizations. First, we delineate several important reasons why it is critical to discuss mentoring and race. We explore how race has been positioned within the literature to provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Party-State Capitalism in China

By: Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee Tsai
The “state capitalism” model, in which the state retains a dominant role as owner or investor-shareholder amidst the presence of markets and private firms, has received increasing attention, with China cited as the main exemplar. Yet as models evolve, so has China’s... View Details
Keywords: Economic Policy; Communism; Capitalism; State Capitalism; Economic Systems; Economics; Policy; China
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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    deepen their understanding of the food and agriculture landscape, exchange perspectives, strengthen their networks, and cultivate ideas to shape this vital industry. In our upcoming seminar, you will explore current and future industry View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
    • 17 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

    shift in how we think about and use teamwork. Edmondson has been studying teamwork for two decades. In that time, "we've seen fewer stable, well-designed, well-composed teams, simply because of the nature of the work, which is more uncertain and View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 16 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

    including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to creating and implementing a... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    structured? How to clearly define roles and responsibilities? Which processes help the board function most effectively? What norms foster the right dynamics and culture? We draw on research, boardroom case studies, and our experience at... View Details

      Benjamin (Ben) Creo

      Benjamin Creo co-teaches the Innovating in Health Care course alongside its founder, Prof. Regina E. Herzlinger. While many courses in healthcare innovation focus on where to innovate, this course focuses on how to innovate. Its four modules discuss how to evaluate... View Details

      • 10 Apr 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10, 2007

      http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507024 Lobbying Harvard Business School Note 707-471 Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics associated with doing so. Focuses... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Dorothy A. Leonard

        Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

        Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
        • 2023
        • Book

        Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

        By: Meg Rithmire
        Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
        Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
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        • 10 Oct 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

        political participation and bolstered economic conditions for Black communities. But the law also galvanized "racially conservative" white voters, stoking their fear of losing power and influence, a dynamic that lingers today, write... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • February 2009
        • Article

        Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

        By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
        Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
        Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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        • 27 Jul 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: July 27

          PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 1998
        • Journal Article

        Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
        The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
        Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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        • 2018
        • Working Paper

        Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
        Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
        Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
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