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25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

disillusioned because while the names and faces changed, the partisan-driven gridlock in Washington and politicians’ focus on primary voters, special interests, and donors did not. “I was always looking for ‘who’s the right candidate?’”... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong. That’s especially true when you adjust for the quality improvements and price declines in that area; something our research is the first to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign workers to far-flung locations to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Donald J. Trump brings business experience to the White House. Source: BasSlabbers Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States, will be the first to go straight from the boardroom to the Oval Office without any political... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

you have global frameworks that are robust and travel across boundaries, you don't actually have to teach management country by country. So the first order of business for us is to get the global content View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

and in sync with the larger interests of the nation— Nancy Koehn Nancy Koehn: As a historian, I would note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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