by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt) - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

caught between worlds and identities—and the ways we must choose to reconcile our past with our present. The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II, by Iris Chang, is such a poignant book... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Aug 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

one important difference: a focus on an inflation-protected annuity rather than an endpoint with a lump sum of accumulated wealth. "This is not anything new or radical," says Merton. "In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

from activist investors. Danaher, by contrast, had performed strongly in the years leading up to the spinoff. It had spent the previous decade strengthening its portfolio in sectors such as life sciences and dental products View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

undertake positive net present value projects. These projects typically reflect the comparative advantages of the firm and are the raison d'être of the firm. "Passive" risks are risks associated with investments when returns are... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

director Gustavo Herrero [HBS MBA '76] are the book's co-editors, with Research Associate Brooke Barton.) The 2005 conference was followed that spring by an MBA elective, Business and the Bottom of the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Lagace: How did you arrive at the subject of repugnant markets? Alvin E. Roth: I started thinking about them while talking with kidney surgeons and learning about all the things they found repugnant. Meanwhile, a group of economists,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

by seeing the world as it really is, rather than in idealized terms." Ghemawat explained more via e-mail with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: The subtitle of your book is "Crossing Borders in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

research suggests that negotiators reciprocate concessions based on the benefits they receive, while tending to ignore how much others are sacrificing. One way for the manufacturer to highlight the benefits he was providing to the union would be to contrast his offer... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

explicitly and frequently," to Clayton Christensen's insights about how poorly companies handle the technological discontinuities inherent in a faster moving world. Kotter also credits recent work by Nobel... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

misread, and referenced article ever written by a Nobel Laureate economist. And it’s still being argued today. In “A Friedman Doctrine--The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits,”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

personality. Something of a dandy, Schumpeter (1883-1950) was a hit with women, adored by students, and both made and lost a fortune in a matter of years. He also once initiated a sword fight View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

given the issue new visibility alongside Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, it raised some eyebrows among investment analysts who asked what sustainability has to do with Google's core business... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

book with me after she raved about it and we both continue to reflect on key learnings. I swiftly followed this book with A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, which... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the... View Details