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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
the New Deal, even as those events shape political economy in important ways. The project to understand how capitalism both observes and obviates borders at the global level has had, it seems, an impact even in the most local matters.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
competition. Their winning concept for the Water Cube combined elements of Chinese culture with innovative materials and sustainability requirements. The multidisciplinary and cross-company team, based in Sydney, Australia with counterparts in Beijing, faced View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
so that they can lessen the negative public perception and media scrutiny,” Luo says. “We do see an increase in their likelihood of working with female writers after #MeToo, but much less so than female producers.” In fact, among... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
investment that immediately improved its ecommerce infrastructure. Walmart has also piloted and invested in robots to perform a variety of functions, from unloading trucks to scrubbing floors to scanning shelves and bringing items out of storage for curbside delivery... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
to creating your own model. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52002 January 2017 Journal of Public Economics Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology By: Stern, Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
assesses America’s 250 largest public companies as ranked by Fortune magazine. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement and that's something that workers and employment... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us to analyze two competing changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
The research provides food for thought as policymakers debate the efficacy and fairness of education initiatives like No Child Left Behind, the 2001 United States Act of Congress requiring federally funded public schools to administer... View Details
- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 218-041, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
percent year over year, and the National Restaurant Association projected an industry revenue shortfall of $240 billion for the year. Second-order effects of restaurant closures ripple through the American economy, bringing economic pain... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0710F&referral=2340 R&D Project Selection and Portfolio Management: A Review of the Past, a Description of the Present, and a Sketch of the Future Authors:D. Brunner,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship. This paper proposes a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
course neither of you have visited or playing a video game together can test how you collaborate or handle competition. You might also consider working on a start-up related project together to see how that feels, such as co-creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
individuals and groups in organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-024.pdf Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we get information and reassure each other are lost when people go remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
organization's management team can do is be transparent (and) persistently continue open conversation and not expect to be perfect." Karl Hunrick suggested that we need to employ more managers willing to take risk, because... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett