Open Source - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and convening space where venture teams... View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

thoughts and feelings. People varied considerably in whether they saw the open space of time before them as a blank canvas they were excited to paint—or a dark, scary void. “When you work, you are a kind of tenant in a really settled life... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

came to serve as a major source of short-term financing. In 1958, the investment house launched the One William Street Fund, a mutual fund of diversified holdings funded by shareholders. Expanding their global reach in the 1960s, Lehman... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

your boss. That's not the deal. You have to figure out the sources of power you have to influence the boss. You also have to see the boss as human and fallible in all the ways that you're human and fallible, and figure out how to deal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

soon became the electoral kiss of death for Panamanian politicians. Q: What has happened since the transfer of control? A: After the United States removed Noriega, the Panama Canal underwent a management revolution. Once the political conditions were met to prevent the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

several arguments. Individual pay transparency would eliminate a source of distraction (Srishti Mehra) and "would do more to eliminate gender and racial pay inequity than any other action," according to Miki Saxon. Will Quandt... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, Victoria and Boris investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out and deductible clauses that weaken them are as... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

comes to bear only when there is a mutual need to focus on joint objectives" This process of open communication encourages a great degree of buyer/seller cooperation and coordination, and literally a much broader agreement. More... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

diversification to long-term investors do not recede when the source of increased global return correlations is correlated discount rates. Empirically, we document a secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock returns... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2017
Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

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28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

possessed, first, strong capabilities in branding and marketing. It understood local markets, and it knew how to market to them. It was at the frontier of market segmentation strategies in packaged consumer products. It opened up new... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

coordination that resulted in their developing self-regulation programs were sparked by crises, including the chemical industry after the Bhopal accident and the nuclear power industry after the Three Mile Island incident. We also examined new forms of collaboration,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Ironically, the case instructor's performance in the classroom often depends significantly on activities outside the classroom, including pre-class preparation and external interactions with students via office hours, e-mail, and other means. Instructors can draw on... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

finding the will to start implementing at-scale technologies that are already working,” Carty observes. Here, we take a look at alumni who are pursuing those opportunities, working to make tomorrow’s cities more sustainable across five key areas: mobility, power,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

process requiring strategic thinking, argumentation, multiple filings, and a bit of flexibility. Protecting a word like FOMO, which had become ubiquitous, required a thoughtful approach. Plus, to obtain a registration, you need to prove that the mark is a View Details

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First, local brokers were now empowered... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the organization seeks to boost their relative share of the scarce resources. This competitive drive to excel others is the greatest source of the restless energy that people bring to the workplace. If this were the only drive in play, it... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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