University Level - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

spending. “If more inventions are building on federal grants, it suggests that support is becoming more important to research generally.” Since then, corporate spending has continued to rise, while government funding has leveled off. By... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Sep 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

The global COVID-19 pandemic has shifted power dynamics not only within today’s historically tight job market, where workers have an unprecedented level of choice and control, but also within households, organizations, and society as a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota in 2023. Christian Kaps : Awarded Runner-up for the 2023 ENRE Young Researcher Prize from INFORMS for "Privately-Owned Battery Storage... View Details

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

also a de facto dictator, torturing and killing citizens who dared to protest for a more democratic government. Education was another driver for the family’s emigration. In Korea, the cultural drive to achieve the highest possible level... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mergers, Parliament began to regulate the level of capital and the number of acquisitions permitted. William Gladstone, political leader and Christian socialist philosopher, believed the state had moral responsibilities to the public... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

quantum gravity. Overall, the author introduces complex concepts of quantum mechanics in an accessible and fun-to-read style while laying the groundwork for mastering an advanced level of treatment in standard quantum mechanics textbooks... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

percent of the School's total revenues, compared with 27 percent a year earlier. For the University as a whole, philanthropic revenue amounted to 49 percent of total operating revenues for fiscal 2021. The School's annual endowment... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

management wants to hear from lower levels about barriers to execution that might include their own leadership. The coronavirus challenge, like any crisis, provides senior management a huge opportunity to develop a trust-based culture... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

new shares you suddenly own of a company that you never intended to buy in the first place? Logic suggests that you would be likely to sell those shares. But research by Associate Professor Malcolm Baker, Professor Joshua Coval, and Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Outside... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

out FinAid and Fastweb, both of which have extensive scholarship directories. You can receive up to $10,000 per year in external funding before HBS adjusts the amount of your need-based fellowship. Loans A certain level of educational... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

greatest expression. 3 In practice, however, lending and borrowing proceeded briskly and at all levels of the pre-industrial economy, if not in forms that we would recognize today. 2 Rosa-Maria Gelpi, The History of Consumer Credit:... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

the universality of business analysis to solving problems in all walks of life. I am a business school professor, and this case is one of several from HBS that has helped me spot financial issues one level... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

knowledge emerge across the globe, companies must establish a presence at an increasing number of locations to access new knowledge and to absorb new research results from foreign universities and competitors into their own organizations.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Jon M. Jachimowicz of Columbia Business School; Julia J. Lee of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan; Bradley R. Staats of the View Details