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- April 2011
- Course Overview Note
The Energy Business and Geopolitics: Overview
By: Noel Maurer
Maurer, Noel. "The Energy Business and Geopolitics: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 711-090, April 2011.
- February 1975 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
Elizabeth Best (B)
By: Wickham Skinner and Ardis Burst
Describes what a new political appointee with years of volunteer experience did in office. View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Organizational Structure; Management Skills; Public Administration Industry
Skinner, Wickham, and Ardis Burst. "Elizabeth Best (B)." Harvard Business School Case 675-124, February 1975. (Revised December 1991.)
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
a closer qualitative inspection of the “how-to” micromechanisms, and thereby advance a multidisciplinary research agenda. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50833 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70
By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details
Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China
Rithmire, Meg, and Courtney Han. "Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70." Harvard Business School Case 721-040, March 2021. (Revised December 2023.)
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details
- Web
Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog
for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build multisided platforms? How can firms create and capture the value from intellectual property assets? What are the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
separate the issue of paying for retirement from the issue of structuring how we do it. The fundamental problem we have right now is that we are not paying for retirement. Too many American businesses have used the opportunity to abandon... View Details
- Web
Student Life | MBA
Student Life An Inside Look at How Student Life Unfolds Activities, Government & Clubs Community People Virtual Campus Tour A Residential Campus HBS is the only top business school in the country with a residential, self-contained campus.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
international microfinance institutions, helping them develop their corporate and governance strategies. He is also a photographer and filmmaker. This article is an edited version of a CNN.com article that... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
ignored health care altogether, leaving it to government or dutifully paying their mandated health contributions. Many U.S. employers are dropping health benefits or hoping for reforms that will transfer responsibility for health... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) The case elicited a broad range of student responses when HBS associate professor Gunnar Trumbull taught it for the first time last December... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
both for-profit and traditional not-for-profit institutions to rethink the entire traditional higher education model. For the vast majority of universities change is inevitable. The main questions are when it will occur and what forces will bring it about. It would be... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
current brands, and the competition it faces from local and international players. Also provides information on the market structure and prominent channels of distribution. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the... View Details