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The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs

By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain; Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions
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    Connections

    Connections Education (CE), now part of Pearson’s Online and Blended Learning business, was created in 2001 to develop a new, more flexible, and more personalized type of learning for students for whom the traditional classroom was not a good fit. In early 2017, CE... View Details

    • October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

    By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
    "For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details
    Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation
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    • 21 Mar 2014
    • Blog Post

    East Asia MBA Market Update

    Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good overall for MBA graduates and... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets

    By: Achal Bassamboo, Ruomeng Cui and Antonio Moreno
    Prediction is an important activity in various business processes, but it becomes difficult when historical information is not available, such as forecasting demand of a new product. One approach that can be applied in such situations is to crowdsource opinions from... View Details
    Keywords: Wisdom Of Crowds; Demand Forecasting; Price Forecasting; Forecasting and Prediction; Social and Collaborative Networks; Size; Performance
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    • November 2014 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef

    By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
    Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product—made entirely from muscle grown in his lab—to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Beef Production; Environmental Impacts Of Food Production; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Netherlands; United States; United Kingdom
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    • 24 Mar 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

    Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University chose business and government ethics and a good infrastructure for attracting business; while a third panelist selected civil society. Discussion and debate ensued among the five... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 10 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    High Commitment, High Performance Management

    firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      Regina E. Herzlinger

      Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

      Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
      • 03 Dec 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

      that believe their sustainability efforts are not being fully rewarded by the market. In particular, the research shows companies with overall good performance in their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs can increase... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • Research Summary

      Enduring Success

      By: Howard H. Stevenson
      Harvard Business School graduates have achieved many different kinds of success as leaders of businesses, as entrepreneurs and in their public and private lives. After authoring or co-authoring 150 cases, serving on many corporate and non- profit boards, Howard... View Details
      • 18 Jan 2021
      • Book

      How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

      kind of budget and really want to work on public problems, what do you need to be good at? Weiss: It is vital to engage with the public. Jimmy Chen, who had spent most of his prior career at LinkedIn and... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 29 Oct 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

      According to a survey of citizens in eight countries, women are much more likely than men to view COVID-19 as a severe health problem. They are also more willing to wear face masks and follow other public health recommendations to prevent... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
      • 02 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

      April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

      By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti
      In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015, and exploit improvements in air, relative to sea, transportation to derive a time-varying instrument... View Details
      Keywords: Democratization; Institutional Development; Economic Integration; International Trade; Democracy; Political Preferences; Institutions; Trade; Global Range; Economics; Government and Politics
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      • 29 Oct 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

      Keywords: by Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist & Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
      • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

      By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
      Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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      • 07 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

      Harvard Business School. People are more likely to recall information over a longer period when it’s wrapped in an anecdote as opposed to statistics, according to the study, "Stories, Statistics and Memory.” Graeber’s research validates what CEOs have long known: that... View Details
      • October 2013
      • Case

      Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

      By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
      CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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      • 28 Feb 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

      In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel