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19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

http://hbr.org/product/gaston-acurio-a-recipe-for-success/an/514014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-001 Bridges Ventures Bridges Ventures, a UK- based impact investor with double-digit returns on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

Katie Thomas, Inside the C.E.O. Rebellion Against Trump’s Advisory Councils, The New York Times, August 15, 2017, pp. B1 and B4. Bill George, Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump, Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political economy. Vietor has taught at View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

Creating an ethics chatbot requires an investment of resources and technical capabilities that is likely to be beyond most firms’ capabilities. However, Soltes’ lab at Harvard Business School was able to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

scrapping the public exchanges would be unfair and unproductive to public health. John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a joint appointment at View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Copyright 2019 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

business. It all started, she told Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki, with a personal choice she made when she was young. Link to preview:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

buy, how we talk, and even how we feel—and use that to make predictions about how we’ll act next. As the field of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly mainstream, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

Management in Beijing. The Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin recently caught up with McFarlan and asked him to reflect on his experiences in China, and his thoughts about the future of a country he... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Only about 10 percent of companies in this often unpredictable industry have been severely affected.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

with one another.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: glebchik] Related Reading: When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

The real danger from stereotyping In my classes at Harvard Business School (HBS) many executives express concerns about experiencing these biases in their workplaces. However, we have learned through our... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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