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The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History
By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Jones, G., Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, and Stephen Broadberry. "The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History." Scandinavian Economic History Review 60, no. 3 (2012): 225–253.
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
Building A Culture of Health
This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
and lead author of the paper “Pseudo-Set Framing,” written while she was a doctoral student at Harvard Business School. The term “pseudo-set” refers to the idea that the set is kind of arbitrary—manufactured for the sole purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
adversaries as well as with colleagues within your organization? In this Q&A, James Sebenius and David Lax, authors of 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, discuss the common mistakes of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
2016 Boston: Cengage Learning Management: An Integrated Approach By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—The goal of Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd ed., is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st century companies by addressing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 30 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment
- 17 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India
Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova
- 10 Dec 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Vulnerable Banks
- 30 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered
- January–February 2023
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Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu, and Najat Khan. "Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen." INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 53, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 70–84.
Mastering the Management System
From HBSP: " Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are able to get their message out through these powerful channels,” Pons says. About the View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
more likely to be accepted than denied or waitlisted, the authors report in the paper. Furthermore, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 58 percent of employers won't even consider candidates with a GPA of 3.0... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Scott Duke Kominers. Benjamin C. Esty : Recognized as one of the top 20 bestselling case authors for the past seven academic years (was #19 in 2021–2022) by The Case Centre out of more than 8,000 authors. Robin Greenwood : Winner of the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
push back, limiting the financial upside. If you create value, no one pushes back. About the Author Danielle Kost is the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/JamesBrey] What separates a good... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
managers can challenge the prices and even choose to go with outside vendors. Since the early 1990s, branch managers have had the authority to determine staffing levels and set staff salaries. At first, senior managers predicted that it... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
the rainbow. . . . Bath-tubs are both streamline and softly pink.” 12 Early market surveys, conducted by research pioneers like Daniel Starch, a Harvard Business School professor and author of The Principles of Advertising (The University... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne