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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
1929 crash—an event he failed to predict. But, more generally, while individual forecasters came and went, some making it rich and others not, the bigger story is that the industry created key resources for society as a whole. In the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
market, goods like education. If we are granting special tax privileges to organizations to produce software, we as a society are saying something about the nature of that good and the nature of the markets that create it. Q: What were...
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by Mallory Stark
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
Economics at Oxford and became the first British Asian woman to become president of the Oxford Union, the famed debate society that spawned a long line of notable British political figures. “At Oxford, I didn’t have a firm idea on...
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
interest of the School, whose faculty engaged with the company in research projects, as the subject of case studies, and through consulting. In 1944, J. Keith Butters, HBS Assistant Professor of Financial Research, and John V. Lintner, at the time a junior member of...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
government, and intelligence—it is for me the perfect mix. I am a guy who likes to do a lot of things simultaneously. It’s not daunting to me to be all over the place and do things at 100 miles an hour for 100 days straight. The challenges that face our View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
John in his role as Campaign chair. He truly understands the value of business to society and how our graduates can have a lasting, positive impact on their organizations and on their communities. John has long been a thoughtful advocate...
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- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
them to build a business where they could: Help their customers unlock value while improving their impact on society Put their Finance, Consulting and SaaS experience to good use. Conversations with HBS alumni at large, mid-sized, and...
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- December 2023
- Case
Robert McNamara: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family...
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Performance Measurement;
Military;
Leadership Development;
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Characteristics;
Leadership Style;
Success;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Business Education;
War
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Robert McNamara: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 124-036, December 2023.
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Marketing Chateau Margaux (TN)
By: John A. Deighton and Leyland Pitt
Teaching Note for [507033].
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
fifth factor involves the question of social mores. Through this last economic crisis we’ve come to at least pause and question the values that have animated business over the last two decades. I don’t know how that all will shake out. But I think View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according to a 2020 United Nations...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- November 1997
- Case
Borden Ranch: Balancing Private Property Rights and Social Interests in Ag
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Don Daniels and Diane Richmond
Angelo Tsakopoulos wanted to convert grazing land to crop agriculture. He received different advice from different government agencies and became involved in legal battles.
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Property;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Rights;
Agribusiness;
Social Issues;
Interests;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Don Daniels, and Diane Richmond. "Borden Ranch: Balancing Private Property Rights and Social Interests in Ag." Harvard Business School Case 598-069, November 1997.
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
IMMERSION EXPERIENCES: Students who traveled to New Orleans spent time working on Habitat for Humanity redevelopment projects. Winter break this year gave some 200 MBA students an opportunity to participate in one of three pilot, noncredit Immersion Programs created to...
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- February 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
China: Getting Richer Still
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H. K. Vietor
In the last quarter of 2009, China's GDP growth rate again approached 10%. While the global financial crisis had certainly hurt - causing layoffs of as many as 20 million factory workers - a huge stimulus package on top of continuing domestic demand had restored...
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Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity premium, sustainability, and service smoothing. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortions and government...
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Borrowing and Debt;
Investment Return;
Development Economics;
Taxation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cost;
Interest Rates;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Welfare;
United States;
Brazil
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?" Review of International Economics 17, no. 5 (November 2009): 890–905. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 13119.)
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B9): Nashville Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting
By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,...
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Integrated Corporate Reporting;
For-Profit Firms;
Framework;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Research;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Issues
Ramanna, Karthik. "A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-021, September 2011. (Revised July 2012, October 2012.)
- Article
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
By: Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly and Erick Gong
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong...
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Cost Accounting;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Growth and Development;
Adoption;
Business Strategy;
Cost;
Cost Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Culture;
Technology Industry
Comin, Diego A., Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong. "Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2, no. 3 (July 2010): 65–97.
- February 2006
- Article
Wealth and Executive Compensation
Using new data on the wealth of Swedish CEOs, I show that higher wealth CEOs receive stronger incentives. Since high wealth (excluding own-firm holdings) implies low absolute risk aversion, this is consistent with a risk aversion explanation. To examine whether wealth...
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Wealth;
Executive Compensation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence;
Risk Management;
Competency and Skills;
Wages;
Sweden
Becker, Bo. "Wealth and Executive Compensation." Journal of Finance 61, no. 1 (February 2006): 379–397.