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  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

develop, and integrate smart minds governs how prosperous you will be.” Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • December 2021
  • Case

Green Monday

By: José B. Alvarez, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of David Yeung, from campaigning for plant-based diets to building Green Monday, a purpose-driven business and an ecosystem based in Hong Kong comprising a retail platform, an alternative meat brand (“OmniPork”), a... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
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  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

suggest to some that the impact of excess capacity as a factor in the world economy could increase in the coming decades. Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, is a member of the Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

leaving jobs that didn’t support their caregiving needs Employers, represented by the HR leaders and business owners, seemed oblivious to employees’ challenges, with only 24 percent acknowledging that caregiving impacted performance.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

socialization (personal integrity, high energy level, and a drive to lead), much of leadership is learned.2 Management is primarily learned from on-the-job experiences—by doing, observing, and interacting with others. As unsettling as it... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

social entity. These bonds of membership create the social capital of a profession, which builds trust and significantly reduces transaction costs among members of that... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

sustainable operations and the social and environmental impact of business.” Feng Zhu : Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of... View Details
  • December 2023 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Monsters in the Machine? Tackling the Challenge of Responsible AI

By: Paul M. Healy and Debora L. Spar
In November of 2022, the small tech company OpenAI released ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot which quickly captured the public’s imagination—becoming the world’s fastest-growing consumer application within months of its release. Though observers from across... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; United States; European Union; China
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  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest impact was felt by groups that found themselves the most frequent targets of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court

By: Matthew Lilley, Richard Holden and Michael Keane
Using data on essentially every US Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We consider both the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify these peer effects we use two instruments.... View Details
Keywords: Supreme Court; Peer Effects; Voting Behavior; Legal System; Courts and Trials; Voting; Behavior
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Contracts; Behavior; Employment
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  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-084 Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
  • Web

Industry Information - Alumni

rig data, equipment marketplace, and more. + – Entertainment Billboardbiz Read the latest music industry news as it relates to everything from the growth of streaming services to the legal and management issues impacting the world of... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

impact on the company’s identity, its culture, and ultimately, its success. But lots of research shows that people in positions of power are given a lot more leeway to buck social norms than those with less... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of society. When considered together, these actions have had large-scale impact on the economic landscape. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Web

AASU50 - Alumni

links related to African Americans in business, as well as links to the AASU50 celebration at HBS in 2018. African Americans at HBS Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union, Harvard Business School... View Details