Stewardship Role Of Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2021
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Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

macroeconomics) and enliven them in a managerial setting. The materials in the last three modules are innovative as they provide a platform for exploring some of the lessons that have emerged from recent waves View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

difficult customers to defect to competitors. "One of the challenges we face in retail service operations is that the customer is part of the operating process," Raman said. Toward the end View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

2016
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Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Civil War represents a marketing revolution in which technology, creativity, and art were marshaled together to serve commercial ends. Drawing from Baker Library’s Historical Collections, The Art of American Advertising, 1865—1910... View Details

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

on financial institutions is still being studied. Photo: iStockPhoto "That aspect of flexibility—being able to exempt some smaller companies from the mandate and make it easier for others to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

the trade journal Inland Printer proclaimed the critical new role of printing in advertising: “The manufacturer once made everything in one shop, and sold to everybody near him. The consumer . . . must now... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

chairing a two-year study - conducted by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development and considered a model for other industries — called "Toward the Sustainable Paper Cycle: The View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

thinking intensively about the private equity industry. "This event will examine the changing structure of the private equity industry and the implications of the buyout wave View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

digital talent platforms to access highly skilled freelancers. Read Employer Survey In 2019, Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Salter New Head of External Relations

In his new role as senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Malcolm S. (“Mal”) Salter is ready and eager to shift his focus from the classroom to the global community of 65,000 HBS alumni.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

outdated, electricity was sporadic, communication was difficult, basic resources were scarce, institutions were undeveloped, and the need for training was tremendous. Despite these obstacles, Lu was able to make a difference in the lives... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

type of collaboration and convenings that will be made possible by HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). “BiGS can support research and bring... View Details

Keywords: April White

2008
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The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States