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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Southern Railroad, Standard Power & Light Corporation, and McKeesport Tin Plate, and as consultant to investment banking firms. Doriot taught Manufacturing for decades. In the early 1940s, however, he suspended his teaching activities to... View Details

21 May 2019
News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates components of shelter, education, skill development and livelihood creation and affords residents a basic standard of living. What should the blueprint of this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

society in general. But it is a difficult question to answer, with standards just now emerging in the form of "integrated reports" that help companies disclose corporate sustainability efforts just as they do financial data. Are these... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

relieve pain would not exist today. But any analysis that considers the profits of coordinating pharmaceutical firms while ignoring the harm done to consumers is incomplete. When can we judge value creation to be beneficial to society? One View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

environments where we must negotiate with others, bid against others, make deals through agents, and so on. This view is quite different from the standard consumer decision paradigm that looks at how the lone consumer decides between... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do.Â “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting operational and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and entrepreneurial zeal powered their former... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

skills based on Common Core State Standards through personalized learning plans. Having been a teacher and founder of a successful network of charter schools, Danner believes learning does not have to be limited to the classroom and wants... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

The difference of 0.6 percent is hardly anything to get excited about, especially given the wide variation in forecasted growth levels overall (e.g., 3 percent to 40 percent). We found similar evidence when we partitioned our analysts on the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

Haris Tabakovic, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

Review Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS By: Ramanna, Karthik, and Ewa Sletten Abstract—If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-027.pdf Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation Author:James K. Sebenius Abstract When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the... View Details