One Concern - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

enough of a part of the education system." The third issue, said Kuemmerle, is that "red tape is alive and well." Reconstructing For The New Economy Echoing his concern on this last point was... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Mar 2023
News

Happy Monday

Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

In the land of the digitally connected, the mobile device is king. The majority of digital media consumption happens on mobile devices, with smartphone and tablet activity making up 60 percent of digital screen time in the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Jun 2001
News

Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

barrier is not new. It has been a concern for years because it often necessitates a change in leadership and form of organization, something many founders and their organizations are unwilling to undertake. The second data point is the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

in earnings, a $430 increase in assets, and a $330 increase in spending on food. It showed no increase in spending on alcohol or tobacco, a concern often cited in opposition to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
News

Taking the Plunge

innovation adopted as well as inward-facing company concerns such as launching innovative products while managing an existing core business. “The second half of the course focuses in part on how a company’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

05 Jan 2022
News

Untapped Potential

change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020.... View Details

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

10 Dec 2020
Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

partnership within the HBS Latinx community. The school built stronger bonds with HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA), created an admissions role dedicated to Latinx recruitment, and appointed a faculty adviser. Calderon, founder of TXE Capital, took View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts'... View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

11 May 2011
News

In a Good Place

Gehrke: Supporting schools with an eclectic incubator. Photo courtesy Judy Gehrke Every Sunday, on a block of Manhattan’s Columbus Avenue between West 76th and 77th streets, an event takes place that is part business incubator, part... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

chance to see and experience China’s modernization firsthand. The conference itself took place in a high-rise-studded financial district that didn’t exist just a decade ago. And the event put a spotlight on the School’s deepening... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

shrunk. Chinese consumers are being encouraged to spend more of it. And the leadership of the Chinese government appears to be adopting a new stance concerning free trade, one that appears to be at odds with... View Details