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- 15 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World’s Largest Democracy?
Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Maya Reddy
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
South resulted in increased academic abilities across the board, from spatial analysis to mathematics scores to reasoning. In 2003, William Bart and Michael Atherton of the University of Minnesota wrote a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- Article
Mission-Driven Governance
By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson
The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
Fisman, Raymond, Rakesh Khurana, and Edward Martenson. "Mission-Driven Governance." Stanford Social Innovation Review 7, no. 3 (Summer 2009).
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct entrepreneurs to the best... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
(MBA 2022) Due to an Error in Editing In 1992, I was a subeditor and occasional reporter at the Times of India. We did very little work on computers. Most editing was done on sheets of paper that were later... View Details
- Web
Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991 By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer 23 APR 2021 Working Paper Faculty... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
“In times of crisis, when tensions are running high and discrimination is spiking in the world around us, you're going to be more susceptible to it if you're a platform that has decided to have a design that enables it,” says Luca, who... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Winner of the 2018 Economics in Central Banking Award with Roberto Rigobon for the "Impact of the Billion Prices Project and PriceStats on Central Bank Policymaking." Marco E. Tabellini : Won the 2018 European Economic Association Young... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
International Health Economics
By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details
Egan, Mark, and Tomas J. Philipson. "International Health Economics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19280, August 2013.
- 13 Dec 2022
- HBS Seminar
Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
decisions of living which has meant the most to me.” By the 1950s, the pulps had given way to the new market in paperbacks. Accordingly, MacDonald began writing for this longer and more lucrative form. He... View Details
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act Harvard University is committed to maintaining the integrity and availability of the Harvard network for the vital educational and research purposes for which it was designed... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
new research. In fact, social bonding among men may account for more than a third of the gender gap in promotions, according to the working paper The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. “I’m not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
new paper by Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Cheng Gao, and Tiona Zuzul. Mint We are in a deglobalization period: Business historian Geoffrey G. Jones Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey G. Jones says... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel