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The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this short book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

propose to her and secure our future together. Now, as HBS students, we fondly reflect on our long and winding journey that showed us that our love is enduring. No matter what lies ahead, we’ll always have each other. Rabbiya Hanif &... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

sellers rate one another, providing rankings that bolster users' confidence in the system. Sellers with consistently good evaluations attain PowerSeller status; those with bad evaluations are excluded from future transactions.... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

27 Oct 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Stock Price Fragility

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & David Thesmar

August, 2022
Article

Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis

By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman

Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Costs; Administrative Costs; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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March 2016
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An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts

By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim

We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk.... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Corporate Performance; Growth; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Sustainability; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Sales

June 2013
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Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension

By: Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko and Maarten W. Bos

Background and Objectives: Intrusive images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Cognition and Thinking

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March 2006
Module Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

By: Alan D. MacCormack

Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design

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March 2008
Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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2007
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America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

part in it will come away more capable, confident, and ready for future challenges. Emil Ekelund CLIMB Participant Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data All FAQs CLIMB FAQs What do I receive by completing CLIMB?... View Details

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

problem yet, but at some point I imagine it could be," Ton surmises. "Opening stores in new markets is typically not a way to sustain internal promotions." Growing Pains? The case turns on the question of future growth for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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What You Can Support - Alumni

practice worldwide. Financial Aid Need-based fellowships make HBS accessible to talented future leaders and enable them to pursue a wider range of career paths. MBA Program Ongoing innovation in teaching and learning ensures that the MBA... View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

facilitate future evolutions in content, as required to reflect changes in the broader technological context. Q: Gates has said, and history suggests, that Microsoft one day will fail. What will be the company's downfall? A: If we knew... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Porsche brand erode over time if it is not as strongly associated with masculinity as it has been in the past? Regardless of what the future holds, Avery believes that brand managers can learn important lessons from the emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Materialist Fallacy, The New York Times, February 14, 2012. Andy Grove, How America Can Create Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 1, 2010. Michael Spence, The Next Convegence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, Farrar,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

under threatened employees," Salter argues. "That can be achieved by syndicating the risks of transnational layoffs through basic national health insurance, earned income tax credits, portable pensions, and targeted education and training." The jobs of the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons