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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Up Against The Firewall

to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the fundamental, overarching View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • December 2010
  • Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

federal government reacted with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires all projects licensed by the government to file an environmental impact... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

and other government and industry groups on issues involving business-government relations and policy formulation. In addition to teaching and consulting, Sloane has served as a director of numerous... View Details
  • Web

Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

management all conserve water—increasingly important steps as droughts become more frequent. Innovation Transitioning away from carbon-intensive energy to power industrial production, designing products with efficiency in mind, and instituting View Details
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

leaders, scholars, and current and former senior government officials. The Project will include original research, new survey data, digital forum, regional events, and special issue of Harvard Business Review. "Our ambition at HBS is to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects of v4... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and local governments will reach approximately $450 billion. Although per-pupil spending has more than doubled in real dollars over the last thirty years, student achievement has remained stagnant. U.S. students look mediocre, or worse,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

Role Fred Lazarus delivered the following remarks to the policy board of Americans for the Arts in Washington, D.C., in March 1998. The federal government has provided support for the arts in this country in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2007
  • Supplement

Differences at Work: Sam (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sam (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-054 Sam receives an informal apology from Human Resources which leaves Sam feeling unsatisfied as it is not an official company response. Sam leaves the company for unrelated reasons shortly thereafter but still... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Human Resources; Social Psychology; Conflict and Resolution; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Policy
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  • January 2008
  • Article

On the Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe Reinsurance

By: K. A. Froot and P. O'Connell
Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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  • September 1993 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

Environment and International Trade

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
During the 1990s, environmental activists became interested in trade issues for the first time. Whereas GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had previously been the province of trade specialists, a new poster popular among environmentalists depicted the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Policy; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Globalization; International Relations; Conflict of Interests
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and public View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

has allowed the West’s growing prosperity, but this ideal is now being challenged by governmental bodies that were founded on this very principle. Wagnière examines the dangers that arise when governments push toward collectivism and... View Details
  • Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Understand the science, economic impact, and policy implications of climate change Identify and communicate the risks and opportunities posed by climate change across industries Leverage insights from real-world examples to inform future... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may also be catching the eye of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 20 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

to know you! This program is designed to provide you with the skill sets and mentorship to succeed as a leader in this field regardless of your future career. Whether you wish to be part of senior management in biotech, pharma, or venture capital, or work more in the... View Details