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  • 06 Apr 2022
  • News

The Failure of Covid.gov Is Worse Than Inexcusable

  • 2010
  • Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Why Do Firms Automate Production, and How Do They Adjust? Evidence from the Bell Telephone System over the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T's operating companies replaced telephone operators with mechanical switching and dial telephones. Yet it took AT&T 30 years from the invention of the technology to begin using it, and another 60 years to finish installing it... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Labor; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • February 2020 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work

By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Talent and Talent Management; Business Model; Transformation
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  • Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business purposes, and obtain more credit. Keywords: Informal Economy ; Digital Banking ; Mobile Phones ; Developing Countries and... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

was offering a perfect information service (i.e. one that enabled consumers to find what they want most quickly and efficiently), it would be losing valuable potential revenues. Hence the incentive to attract users with products that they... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tied to financial markets fell sharply. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, legislation increasing government regulation of the financial industry. While financial markets were ultimately stabilized by government policy, the View Details
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. More Info The Relevance of... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

ability to examine financial information and the decisions of crypto and non-crypto investors to make comparisons. The breadth of the data also allowed the team to compare crypto investing behavior to traditional investment vehicles by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910,... View Details
Keywords: History; Middle School Education; Data and Data Sets; Residency; Integration; Perspective; Surveys; Geographic Location; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development; China; India; Brazil; Russia
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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

Per Scholas formula? Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI is rewriting the rules of the economy 26 MAR 2025 | Managing the Future of Work The Stanford economist unpacks AI’s impact on work and productivity, its limitations, and wider implications.... View Details
  • Web

FAQs - Alumni

giving results, visit HBS's Report on Giving . Email & Communications If you are not receiving emails from HBS Reunions alumni@hbs.edu in your inbox or spam/junk folder, you may be unsubscribed. Verify that your contact information and... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States
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  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

describes a world economy increasingly integrated under a common set of rules and principles.” wrote Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, in a personal correspondence. “We’re now experiencing the beginnings of an unwind,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff

    Debora L. Spar

    Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

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    • September 2007
    • Article

    Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico

    By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
    Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

    becoming more important at all levels of the labor force as we move from a more mechanical engineering, manufacturing economy to a post-industrial society. Retaining and cultivating those skills as part of learning on the job is becoming... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Information Technology
    • Web

    Research Areas - Doctoral

    management practices in global organizations; cross-cultural learning and adaptation processes; the challenges of taking companies global; emerging-market companies with global potential; and international political economy and its impact... View Details