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  • 2016
  • Chapter

Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

departments and journals, and from many second-tier business schools. This loss of history has resulted in the spread of influential theories based on ill-informed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

together to recruit and retain talent within your organization utilizing the important tools, strategies, and resources that make an impact. We are grateful you are part of our community, and it’s an honor to be part View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • September 2016 (Revised October 2016)
  • Technical Note

Internet Data Capping Note

By: Shane Greenstein, Lisa Cox and Christine Snively
In April 2016, U.S. federal regulators approved Charter Communications’ acquisition of Time Warner Cable (TWC). The Department of Justice (DoJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC), however, stipulated that the new company could not apply data caps or introduce... View Details
Keywords: Internet Service Provider; Data Caps; Compression; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; United States
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  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

“In contrast to the past, the question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be managed and guided, by whom, and for what needs,” said Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Development... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

and integrity to the defense acquisition system. With respect to contractors, the Defense Department customarily does business with an inverted system of rewards and penalties. Contractors are often rewarded... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 01 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

I had my heart set on attending HBS ever since I completed the Summer Venture in Management Program in 2005.  I appreciated the general management approach of HBS and the fact it didn't require a specific concentration on a particular... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education
  • November 2021
  • Article

Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Tyler R. McClintock, David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and George E. Haleblian
Objective. To characterize full cycle of care costs for managing an acute ureteral stone using time-driven activity-based costing.
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • Research Summary

Overview

Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment

By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market; Financial Analysts; Information; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Governance
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  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

to develop a social justice course at HBS. Endline’s goals are simple: "I want to be one of the positive rioters who makes a difference in the world.” AUGUST 11 Executive Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003) spoke to the... View Details
  • July 2024
  • Case

“In That Crucible, You Find Innovation”: Public Safety Transformation in Albuquerque

By: Hise O. Gibson and Antonio Manuel Oftelie
“In That Crucible, You Find Innovation”: Public Safety Transformation in Albuquerque" centers on Mayor Tim Keller’s leadership during the social justice protests in 2020 and his efforts to reinvent Albuquerque’s public safety model. Faced with both a federal consent... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Government Administration; Leading Change; Safety; Social Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Public Administration Industry; New Mexico
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  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

the five tenets of the mission at the Smithsonian's NMNH is to be a catalyst for the use of object-based science education in the K-12 school system. With a large education View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics

By: Marco Grotteria, Max Miller and S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan
This paper investigates the informational role of lobbyists in the context of foreign lobbying in the United States. Using Department of Justice data on contacts between foreign governments and US legislators, we show that exogenous shocks to these connections... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Public Finance; Political Connections; Foreign Lobbying
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  • 30 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Soroush Saghafian, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

  • 12 Jul 2019
  • News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I wanted to ask a quick favor. We’re running a two-minute, ten-question listener survey to help us continue to bring... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

J.P. Morgan’s Witness and the Holes in Corporate Criminal Law

  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

saying that, “It is manifestly ridiculous, if not actively racist, to frame this issue of justice as being worth doing because it is profitable.” The point, of course, is that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett