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March 2012
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Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

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16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been studying remote work for years now,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2009
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GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

31 Mar 2023
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Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

10 Feb 2021
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Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

be particularly sympathetic to #MeToo’s call to empower women and are the main driver of the shift to hire more women following the scandal, write Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang, the paper's authors. Luo is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

26 May 2022
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Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

and political issues,” says Nien-hê Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who coauthored the case. Staking out a clear social position can actually help a company’s bottom line, boosting employee morale,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Nov 2022
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When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

something we’d rather avoid than engage in with confidence,” explained Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at Harvard Business School during the event.... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

of passengers transported every year,” says Stuart Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studied Carnival’s predicament. He points out that in March 2020, Carnival's bonds were... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Nigeria: Africa's Giant

By: Marlous van Waijenburg

"Nigeria: Africa’s Giant" delves into the economic development and state building record of Africa’s most populous country. Despite being one of the continent’s largest oil-exporters, Nigeria’s economy has been struggling, and poverty is widespread. The country’s... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Government Administration; Poverty; Africa; Nigeria

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19 Dec 2022
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What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic interests into her research. For his part, Zlatev arrived at his PhD in business View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

shores which nature has decreed to be most vital to our national safety, not to mention our prosperity." Q: You describe the US involvement in the construction and administration of the Panama Canal as a "successful American... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

19 Jul 2017
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Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

Milkman, among others, the group settled on four areas of particular interest to nudge units in the United States and United Kingdom—retirement savings, college enrollment, public health interventions, and energy consumption. They then... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2016
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Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research fellow at HBS. “It suggests that having breaks prior to testing is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

28 Mar 2023
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The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines when the agency began authorizing them for emergency use less... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

08 Mar 2019
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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

anti-union company, and New York has many powerful unions that despise Amazon’s broader labor practices. (It didn’t help that, in a public meeting, Amazon conspicuously refused to pledge neutrality around unionization issues.) Next,... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

25 Aug 2015
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Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details

2023
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Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance

By: Alexander O. Everhart, Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu and Pinar Karaca-Mandic

Importance: Most regulated medical devices enter the U.S. market via the 510(k) regulatory submission pathway, wherein manufacturers demonstrate that applicant devices are “substantially equivalent” to 1 or more “predicate” devices (legally marketed medical devices... View Details

Keywords: Recalls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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