Effort Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

wind? How will local residents feel about windmill farms on their horizon? What effects will regulators have on the energy industry in the future? What unexpected opportunities or obstacles will pop up along the way? The course examines strategic View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing Social View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Nov 2015
News

Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

01 Apr 1997
News

Learning from the Past

through the efforts of businessman-scholar Robert B. Strassler (MBA '61). Published in 1996, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, which Strassler conceived and edited, is a 711-page work that includes... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the moon. With lifestyle View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

examined in this course. One of the primary objectives of the course is to get you to think strategically about growth. Growth involves a series of choices about rate (e.g. how fast to grow?), direction (scale vs. scope), and method of... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

Authors:Richard M.J. Bohmer and Thomas H. Lee Publication:New England Journal of Medicine 361, no. 6 (August 5, 2009) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1347 Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

but the delay between the onset of mental illness and treatment is typically 11 years. Those figures convinced the Verdis and the Swartzes to focus their nonprofit’s efforts on young people—among them, the 1 in 6 children under the age of... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts at a recent Harvard Business School conference. On the upside, a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

many married, ambitious professionals face: maintaining a healthy marriage while pursuing independent careers. Geography Serves as an Anchor When it came time to launch their post-MBA lives, the Joyce couple had some complex choices to... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The field of strategy has mounted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

employers offer fitness programs and healthy menu choices in company cafeterias, sometimes at lower prices than the less healthy alternatives. To promote screening and management of chronic conditions, employers are moving to on-site... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

01 Mar 2005
News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

School’s alumni and friends since we launched the campaign has been nothing short of remarkable,” said Dean Kim B. Clark. “Building on this momentum, we see an opportunity to focus our efforts on two key priorities this year.” One such... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

economic growth in industrial countries began to slow down. All of a sudden companies found that they couldn't do everything. They had to make some choices and needed a way to think about it. The economics of strategy seems to be a very... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

services. A key tradeoff emerges between the need to motivate observable effort by professionals (best achieved by a MSP) and the need to coordinate decisions that generate spillovers across professionals (best achieved by a vertical... View Details