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- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact that states cannot produce any commodity they want) and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core initiatives for AASU50: a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major difference has to do with the regulatory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which of M&M’s View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
time she’s been doing research in this area—and what has remained the same. Lynn Paine: Probably the most obvious thing that has changed is the attitudes toward women and towards diversity in general. You know, back when Tosh joined her... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent... View Details
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Artist Support | Baker Library
for Morse in her research laboratory. Morse also advanced a program to provide Polaroid film and equipment to emerging and established artists whose work pushed the technical and aesthetic boundaries of the medium. This pioneering effort... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
universities in the world of higher education in the 21st century. Is it going to be Europe, whose great institutions really defined what a modern university would be in the 19th century? The United States, which is without question still at the moment the dominant... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
today in the nonprofit sector. Back then, our clients were being asked to make significant investments in IT, so of course they asked, what's my return? As a result I got very engaged in how one collects and presents information to show how the IT function was being... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Q: You've done research on the role of shareholders in holding corporations responsible for their actions. Should any of the burden of ethical corporate behavior rest on shareholders? How about the rank-and-file employees? A: The short... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
with scientists who were starting companies out of academic labs, they looked at different companies as possible breeding grounds for entrepreneurial talent. My research suggests that Baxter's entrepreneurial career imprint most closely... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Bazerman Publication:Academy of Management Perspectives (in press) Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points of disagreement with Locke and Latham (2009), and call for further academic research to examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
was how long it would take us to get there. We are suggesting that the day may finally be arriving. The implications, if so, will be numerous and important. Various chapters in the book describe how business strategy, production... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details