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23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

newest issue of the renowned British research journal, the oldest scholarly journal in the world dating back to View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment, released in May. The pair used a consumer durable goods business in India as a real-world laboratory for the research. "Running this kind of experiment is not... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

them to handle those responsibilities. We have found that people in our operations all around the world -- in Europe, Latin America, India, and China -- respond very positively to this idea. What is Cummins... View Details

2008
Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago

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26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It’s available on... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

I'm going to a conference in Berlin in a couple of months called the Falling Wall Conference. So there's 25 companies that are coming from all around the world focused really... View Details

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

HBS. I’ve found a career I’m passionate about thanks to the exploration and connections I made during my two years there, which was one of my main goals. I also met amazing mentors, made lifelong friendships, found my spouse, and gained... View Details

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

with other alumni clubs around the world and had some fantastic speakers. We’ll continue with some virtual programming, since Houston is a very spread-out city and sometimes our members can’t make some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

environment they encounter in one developing country is likely to differ substantially in the next. Markets in Latin America and other emerging regions are not, in fact, cut from the same cloth. Today, while... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

In their new book, The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on the idea of disruptive innovation to explain how and why the Steve... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

corporate world to her new mission to improve public education by fostering strong leadership skills among principals. After a long career of leadership at the Hallmark Corporation, Hallquist became a fellow... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

During World War II, the predecessor to the US Central Intelligence Agency produced a secret field manual detailing how “citizen-saboteurs” could disrupt View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

world having returned to a greater semblance of normalcy, the emphasis shifted to ensuring a smooth re-entry for students back to campus, and attracting and retaining our faculty and staff. Salaries and... View Details

Blog

Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN

have to be away for quite as long. We also worked with client companies to create several custom programs that were delivered virtually. For example, we collaborated with the India subsidiary of one of the... View Details

08 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS

worked with staff at the Cambridge Innovation Center to establish programming for Veterans interested in pursuing the world of entrepreneurship. Second, I advised Veterans in... View Details

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Joshua Cooper Ramo, co-CEO and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates. Ramo’s core thesis is that today's world of networks and connectivity may be the biggest game-changer of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

2008
Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America