Faculty Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Center runs roundtable discussions that give faculty an opportunity to meet with the business community.— Anders Sjöman Another trend, just as in the U.S., is shareholder activism and corporate View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

some possible solutions—at the Faculty Research Symposium held at HBS on May 20. Whether a particular nonprofit organizational structure favors central or local control, inevitable tensions develop between national headquarters and local... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

unthinkable to the eight women who joined the program in 1963. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

The view that "monetary sovereignty" independence could be used wisely does not take into account that the type of government that has driven Greece to the edge of the cliff is not the type of View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

understanding relations among them. Lodge served as head of this landmark course for several years. In the early 1980s, he developed Comparative Business-Government Relations, an MBA elective examining the roles of government and business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

destabilizing effect on some local cultures. But what has begun cannot be undone, he said. "There is no point in imagining a world where Pandora's box has not been unlocked," he said. "We cannot dig trenches around any country," agreed Patrick... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance." This article is part of a continuing series on View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

which we take collaboration to the level of megacommunities from the private and public sectors working together to solve large-scale social problems." Others, including Jay Somasundaram, wonder about the relative roles of the private sector and View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

Government archives are often poorly organized or inaccessible. There's really no way to know the history." An initial pilot effort grew out of interviews in 2008 with von Appen and nine other Chilean executives, as well as eleven from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can nonprofit leaders and donors do?... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

Columbus Dispatch titled, “Trade With Red China.” Rather than advocate a position, the ad laid out the pros and cons of establishing a trade relationship between the United States and a largely isolated but feared China. Nevertheless, it got my name on a blacklist of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS. “ some CEOs believe they can’t be silent when a proposed government policy might lead some of their employees to be subjected... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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