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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
3 points. The percentage of people who planned to vote in the presidential election also ticked up. Breaking down voter views This research is just a slice of Pons’ larger research agenda aimed at understanding what makes people vote a certain way, how democratic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jonathan Arena
generators, great at coming up with ideas. But ideas need wheels. It’s not enough to have a brilliant idea or a brilliant product. You need a brilliant system to deliver content and capture value in order to have an impact.” In a variety... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
insurance contracts. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the American Finance Association, Merton is a leading figure in the School's Global Financial Systems Project and has taught extensively in... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
curiosity. The emphasis is on learning and discussion, less on making decisions. They set up executive programs, task teams, and scenario rehearsals, all with an eye toward evaluating the new environment. In phase two, leaders question their own View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
authors go beyond the common belief of retail as a monolithic industry and provide a framework that any brick-and-mortar retailer can use to respond to the eCommerce threat. Through six examples, this book demonstrates how this framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
work. Business historian Harold Livesay writes that Land "advocated a belief in the harmony and symbiosis among work, virtue, profit, beauty, technology, and progress." 32 Addressing the future of industrial research in 1944, Land... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
raising instinctive fears of bodysnatchers looking for a quick payday. It's just these kinds of gray zones that HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby likes to research, areas where questions of legitimacy and moral beliefs are raised.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a job if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
people have become disillusioned in their religious beliefs and are leaving the church in great numbers. They are doing so mainly because they find church dogmas and traditions lack credibility. The church has not maintained pace with... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
complexity? Pipeline problems Max Bazerman on Reducing Discrimination Charlice Hurst on The Just Wage Tool The premise of our work is this core belief that racism and inequity are products of design. And, if they are products of design,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
learning and to shaping how I thought. And I was always very influenced by C. Wright Mills, who wrote The Sociological Imagination. I still believe it's an important imagination. My belief about changing the world was that you need a big... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
environment for human purposes," Kirby said in a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. "It is an infrastructure state for which there is no parallel, largely based on a belief that earth and landscape are to be transformed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for its clients). “We started with... View Details