Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

vital infrastructure that keeps the economy—and goods and services—moving, including roads, bridges, ports, and freight trains. Businesses that want employees to return to the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

Four key trends that have contributed to this changing environment, said Kuemmerle, are: the dot.com wave; the emergence of global start-up firms; capital chasing entrepreneurs; and changes in supporting... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

and can afford good healthcare, you lack that foundation. If you don't have a governmental system that works effectively and delivers good public services, that's a drag on... View Details

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

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

system that enables upcoding was enacted in the early 1980s, while it took until 2010 to enact the ACA.) In The Public Interest? That doesn't mean that preferential treatment by regulators is View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

for reducing waste, requires a modular approach to construction with extensive prefabrication. This also makes it possible to embed technology, such as sensors and actuators, into the very fabric of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

Silverthorne: What are market categories, and why are they important? Mukti Khaire: Categories are cognitive constructs meant to organize large amounts of information into manageable units. Goods classified... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

sought could include aid from one country to another, the sale of national assets, and the deferral of commitments to allow time for a work out. A sizeable minority, however, took the view that lenders,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

financing them jointly on a single balance sheet, especially when it is costly to set up project companies? The answer is that the creation of a new project company affects not only the decision to invest... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

left me with skills that have had lifetime benefits. And it contributed to significant growth of the American middle class. These experiences prompt the following speculation. "The largest investment in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

banks understand the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of one particular emotion (contentment) constant. An... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

that mercantilism of invention should be the goal of the United States, as great good can come from ideas and innovation elsewhere that diffuse and spread. But the gains from innovation leadership are huge, ranging from the tech giants... View Details