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- September 2019
- Teaching Note
Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul
This is a teaching note to the original case: Gun violence was a significant problem in America. Three Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellows Christy Wood, Russell Sternlicht, and Gareth Glaser each decided to do something about gun safety. They each used... View Details
Keywords: Gun Violence; Guns; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Innovation; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Social Change; Social Responsibility; Leadership; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leading Change; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
- 2025
- Working Paper
Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity
By: Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
In this paper, we aim to understand when private households invest in behind-the-meter battery storage next to rooftop solar and how those batteries impact households, the electricity market, and emissions. We answer three main research questions: 1) When do customers... View Details
Keywords: Solar Power; Energy Storage; Technology And Innovation Management; Energy; Energy Policy; Renewable Energy; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Energy Industry
Kaps, Christian, and Serguei Netessine. "Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity." Working Paper, February 2025.
- 1999
- Book
The Financing of Catastrophe Risk
By: Kenneth A. Froot
Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
Froot, Kenneth A., ed. The Financing of Catastrophe Risk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
- Background Note
Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings: Scales and Process
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings scales and the credit rating process. In particular, describes the role and function of the rating committee and the analytical categories considered in arriving at a final sovereign credit rating. View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Credit; Bonds; Policy; Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Services Industry
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Christopher Bruner. "Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings: Scales and Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-027, January 2005. (Revised October 2005.)
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
period. However, the Global Competitiveness Report does include an analysis of the short- or medium-term economic impact of these tragic events and it is cut with a number of specific policy recommendations. I wanted to draw your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
for six years. In addition, he chaired Harvard's International Senior Managers Program in Vevey, Switzerland. Over the years, Hayes has consulted for a number of corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
in his 2012 paper, Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency. According to Silk, industry opposition to an agency serving competing accounts is driven by two... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-compete status in Michigan, they discovered a natural test bed, thanks to an inadvertent policy change. In 1905, during the initial automotive industry boom, Michigan passed Public Act No. 329, which prohibited "all agreements and... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents reported having innovative... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2007 Abstract Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2011
- Article
Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China
Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing economies over the past two decades, their income inequality patterns are very different. In this paper, we take a deep look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Developing Countries and Economies; Motivation and Incentives; Government and Politics; Policy; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Income; China; Viet Nam
Malesky, Edmund, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng. "Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China." Comparative Politics 43, no. 4 (July 2011).
- December 2010
- Article
Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry
By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States
Marquis, Christopher, and Zhi Huang. "Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry." Academy of Management Journal 53, no. 6 (December 2010): 1441–1473.
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino