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- 2023
- White Paper
Delivering on the Degree: The College to Jobs Playbook
By: David Deming, Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Kerry McKittrick, Ali Epstein and Emma Catalfamo
Deming, David, Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Kerry McKittrick, Ali Epstein, and Emma Catalfamo. "Delivering on the Degree: The College to Jobs Playbook." White Paper, Project on Workforce at Harvard, November 2023.
- 2023
- Article
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa—growth, trade, labor, and inequality—and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Labor; Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa." Journal of African History 64, no. 1 (2023): 38–61.
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the organizations mission and the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the New York Times reported (March... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- News
Will Samsung Pay Pay Off?
- 02 Jun 2014
- News
How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
In Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan explore the gap that exists between Christian ideals and the realities of business life at a time when many are searching for guidance in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution says, when he buys just enough to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- News
Non-competes Push Talent Away
- March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Singapore
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Edward Prewitt
Since winning independence in 1965, Singapore achieved some of the world's highest rates of economic growth. A large part of GDP and employment came from direct investment by multinational companies in low-cost assembly work, but in the 1990s Singapore's rising wage... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Employment; Wages; Singapore
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Edward Prewitt. "Singapore." Harvard Business School Case 793-096, March 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- September 1989 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Caterpillar, Inc.: George Schaefer Takes Charge
For over half a century, Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) had been a world leader in the manufacture of earthmoving and construction machinery. In 1982, just months after it recorded the highest sales and profits in its history, CAT experienced its greatest crisis. Demand fell... View Details
Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Crisis Management; Labor Unions; Demand and Consumers; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Industrial Products Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Caterpillar, Inc.: George Schaefer Takes Charge." Harvard Business School Case 390-036, September 1989. (Revised July 1991.)
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial revolution. Health care’s $2.2... View Details
- March 2022
- Case
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Government and Politics; Knowledge; Knowledge Dissemination; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Networks; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Demographics; Diversity; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Julia Kelley. "The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021." Harvard Business School Case 322-052, March 2022.
- 29 Nov 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
- November 2008
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Sameer (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes and wondering whether he made the right choice. Later Sameer's former employer calls him to apologize for their... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Resignation and Termination; Working Conditions; Opportunities; Behavior
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sameer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-054, November 2008.
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the organization approaches financing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, this... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 21 Oct 2009
- News
Mix Up Your Wardrobe - Online
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
2 (May 1976): 333-350. Merton, Robert C. "Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'." In Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice , edited by David A. Wise. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago University... View Details