Continuous Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards are effective, and even on flawed... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

risk of using heroin. And with heroin being so available and inexpensive, then we've got a real potential nightmare on our hands. We've already got very high overdose death rates. Hanna: Do you think in developing these ads, I know you're... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very easy to leave HBS and View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

rapidly enough to continue to justify our standards of living, at least during the recent decade. JR: The things America is great at—higher education and entrepreneurial capacity and scientific and technical infrastructure—are very hard... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2017
News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

taught me, or reinforced for me, was the importance of clarity, of simplicity; the importance of faith in the best sense, that we will continue on even though we're not sure there's an answer at the end of this-- maybe it all will blow... View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To that end, the company’s Behavioral Economics team had View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We develop an integrative model to provide greater explanatory power than... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

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