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- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 31 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
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
- 2016
- Chapter
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
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25." Chap. 1 in Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, 25–42. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
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
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
“Will China threaten American supremacy?” asks Kirby in his new book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. "Public institutions in the United States educate... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
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
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States." In Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas, edited by Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha, 59–87. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
institutions in times of need, such as organized crime, churches, and family networks. In my research, I find evidence that when these non-state institutions are politicized,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
choosing articles and writing context-setting essays to situate and engage readers. I greatly enjoyed playing the role of narrator, distilling biography and social, economic, cultural, and business history.... View Details