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  • 28 Jan 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen
  • November 2007 (Revised February 2009)
  • Background Note

Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History

By: William C. Kirby and Brittany Crow
China is an ancient civilization, but it is really a very young country. How we understand modern China is rooted in our understanding of history. Thus, the authors examine several myths surrounding important historical themes, including unity, economic and political... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; China
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  • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers

By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Relationship Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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  • August 29, 2022
  • Other Article

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, K. Blesch and Oliver P. Hauser
Income inequality is on the rise in many countries around the world, according to the United Nations. What’s more, disparities in global income were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some countries facing greater economic losses than others. Policymakers... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Gini Coefficient; COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Administration; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to understanding cognitive convergence on a standard set of demand-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2015
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Innovating in Healthcare

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo I. Seltzer and Kevin Schulman
With over 71,000 past enrollees, Innovating in Healthcare investigates the issues of health care spending, quality, and access that continue to plague America and global nations alike. With U.S. health care costs trending toward $4 trillion in 2020, the need to... View Details
Keywords: edX; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Model
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  • Career Coach

Crystal Yao

Crystal is particularly interested in helping students understand careers in Sports, Media, and Entertainment and Big Tech, as well as functional careers in General Management, Strategy Consulting, Business Development, and Sales &... View Details
  • 2018
  • Book

New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Rob Markey

Managing Service Operations - MBA Elective Curriculum

World-class service organizations deeply understand the needs and behaviors of their customers, and design, manage, and improve their operating models accordingly. This course... View Details

Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Customer Centric Initiative; Customer Engagement; Service Management; Service Profit Chain; Service Design; Service Models; Service Excellence; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Service Delivery; Service Operations
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

differences in leadership across task, culture, and identity. We don't offer a simple answer. Like any complex phenomena, scholars are in the earliest stages of beginning to understand the complexities of leadership. "What we think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • Program

Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

capabilities that can help your business succeed in today's data-driven environments, you will discover how you can lead your company's transformation into an AI-first leader. Along with learning how to unlock new growth potential, you will deepen your View Details
  • Web

Curriculum - MBA

Operations Management (TOM) View Course Descriptions Video Technology & Operations Management: Climate Change Challenge CLOSE Year One, Spring PRACTICE TEAMWORK AND DEEPEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DIVERSITY AS YOU PREPARE FOR A GLOBAL... View Details
  • Profile

Nathalie du Preez

conflicting viewpoints, challenge my existing preconceived ideas, and help me make business decisions in the future in a more powerful way. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? Before HBS I tended to follow the status quo without... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Collaborating across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition & Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration

By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris and Shira Mor
We propose that managers' awareness of their own and others' cultural assumptions (cultural metacognition) enables them to develop affect-based trust with associates from different cultures, promoting creative collaboration. Study 1, a multi-rater assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Creativity; Prejudice and Bias; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; Cooperation
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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

our understanding of it. Q: Where do you see your research taking you next? A: I continue to be fascinated by the role entrepreneurs and firms have played in integrating national economies over the last two centuries. This View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 2018
  • Report

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Sources
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  • Career Coach

Mansi Raythatha

Having both worked hands-on in these positions, as well as led recruitment into the US, Europe and Asia as head of Merck's Global Leadership Development Program, Mansi can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Austin, explores the motivations behind such partnering.What motivates organizations to collaborate? It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team