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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Boxenbaum for the 2009 paper with the most citations, "How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship." Julie Battilana : Recipient of the 2019 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.... View Details
- January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Generation Investment Management
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and David Allen
In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable world through its... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
Gandhi, Vikram S., Michael Norris, and David Allen. "Generation Investment Management: Sustainable Investing in a Warming World." Harvard Business School Case 324-043, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products targeted at people who haven't... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
how they act in ways that are inconsistent with their more reasoned ethical preferences? What can organizations do to increase the likelihood of employees acting ethically? And, what can society do to change the institutions that guide... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
associates; and building deeper roots in our communities. Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan Stanley Now Is the Time for Bold Leadership BIO We are at a critical... View Details
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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
Giving A Tradition of Philanthropy Giving A Tradition of Philanthropy Investing in Leadership Donor support advances the School's mission Institutions are made great by the people who support them, and for more than a century alumni and... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
“Some people detest asking people for money, but I’m not one of them.” And because he believes in making contributions that give institutions flexibility, Matthews gives to the HBS Fund. “The Dean needs the resources to innovate and to... View Details
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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity
Shai Feldman, Brandeis University; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University; David Makovsky, The Washington Institute and Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations under President Obama; and Khalil Shikaki, Brandeis University. The panel was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his 1962 book Strategy and Structure,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
it could have on the world, particularly in emerging markets. It gave me a sense of purpose, a mission, and a reason to attend an institution like HBS. I came to HBS to obtain the skills, experiences, and network that I need to make my... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
excellence. Xerox also realized that it had to hire a renowned local scientist as the initial laboratory leader. The leader needed to be able to understand the local scientific community, attract junior scientists with high potential, and target the right university... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Kanter says. Instead, it requires systemic change, including new institutions and new ways of doing things, as Kanter argues in her recent book Think Outside the Building. That might include, for starters, locating incubators in... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
their cash reserves have suddenly expanded—they tend to put that extra budget towards more exploratory projects,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joshua Krieger. He co-authored the study Developing Novel Drugs with Danielle Li, Massachusetts View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Selected as a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar in 2017. 2016 Francesca Gino : Named an APS Fellow by the Association for Psychological Science in 2016. Leslie K. John : Selected as an Association for Psychological Science Rising... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship” It’s well documented that women are underrepresented in the executive suite. For instance, women have comprised nearly 50 percent of entry-level public accountants for more than two decades, according to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
phenomenon in a way that medical institutions can understand. In past research, Goh focused on calculating the cost of workplace stress on medical costs in the US. That led Christine Sinsky, vice president of the American Medical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
News Sustainability and Business Models Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her dissertation research at HBS examined institutional leadership, organizational change, and the... View Details