Interests - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

on the part of the advantaged of the world? Or are they in the long-term best interest of those who have benefited the most from irregularities in the "field"? And just what can leaders of disadvantaged economies do on their own... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

deep-pocketed collectors. Back then, the art world rejected it. Other than the police, “Nobody cared about what we were doing in substance, content, and creativity,” said Riley. That lack of interest and the “shroud of illegality”... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

Fast Answer

Market Research Reports in General Databases

Note, the market research publishers will have a small book icon to their left. Click on the publisher of interest to see a listing of all of their reports. You can search within the reports from this page. LSEG Workspace -... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Nov 2019
News

Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO

included a rekindling customer interest by refocusing on convenience. “There was a latent love for the brand,” Kempczinski told the Bulletin. “We had just been underdelivering on what their expectations were.” In an interview with the... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term.... View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

children, this opportunity wasn't the life I wanted at that point," says Jacobson, who resigned, then taught at HBS, consulted, and began to focus on philanthropy. She and Jon had started a family foundation and were interested in finding... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

with similar interests together. I got coffee with a new Tech Club member every week, and every conversation left me feeling more inspired than the last. I’m excited to continue fostering community as one of Tech Club’s Co-Presidents for... View Details

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

Faraz and Youssef lead by example. Faraz is a physician, writer and current MBA student at Harvard Business School. He has an MD from Cornell University and his writings have been published in The New York Times, NPR, CNN, New York Daily News, and more. He is View Details

Portrait Project

Sara Mattei Gentili

surrounding me. What did they like? What were they interested in? How did they speak? I thought the more I knew, the more I could emulate, and the more I would belong. One day, I realized, no matter how hard I tried, I was an outcast. So,... View Details

December 1997 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Merck Sharp & Dohme Argentina, Inc. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Hal Hogan

Describes the efforts of the new managing director of Merck's subsidiary for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay to transform the organization and its culture. Focuses on a critical decision: whether to offer the son of a high-ranking official in the government's national... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Ethics; Decision Making; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Conflict of Interests; Argentina; Uruguay; Paraguay

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26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

an epidemic of the flu and everyone needs to work overtime, or there is an exogenous increase in demand,” Gallani says. “There is so much left unwritten.” Because of that, employers rely on employee motivation to go above and beyond the contract and do what’s in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

experience. After the league spun out NBA Africa as a standalone entity, it found interested investors in former NBA players who hail from the continent, including South Sudan’s Luol Deng and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Dikembe... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Entrepreneurial Support 22ms Entrepreneurial Support Across HBS, Harvard, and Boston, there are many resources to support students interested in founding or joining a climate start-up. The resources below highlight... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

time, managers and corporations seek capital for their ideas, but in doing so they have an inherent conflict of interest about what information to disclose. Therefore, for this complex system to work smoothly requires a governance system... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

database of every senior official in the Secretariat from 1945 to 2008—some 4,000 names in all. Then, consulting news reports and international directories, they determined the nationality of each official. “It's not clear that it's in the best View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.” 14 The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large corporations, while interest in American... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

of Readiness program? + – In addition to being a standalone certificate program, Economics for Managers is also one component course of the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program , which also includes Business Analytics and Financial Accounting . Designed for those... View Details

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