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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

across space through a process of contagion that is stronger in high tax areas. Second, we show that areas burdened by a higher salt tax report more complaints against the salt tax in the list of grievances collected by the king in the... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

limbic system of your brain. And then you deliver that information into your prefrontal cortex and you decide how to act on it. And once you understand how that process works, which is what we're writing about in this book. Look, this... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

seek and how firms could deliver it. The result can be new revenue, increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, positive word of mouth, and cost savings. The multiyear process to price the 8 million tickets to the upcoming London 2012... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

month based on union-negotiated quotas. This implementation process enabled Choudhury and his co-authors to avoid what is known as the selection problem in social science research. “The concern is that there is some underlying... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Research Summary

Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy

By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Business Strategy
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  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

process-improvement strategies. We used TDABC to evaluate the cost of providing pain control to patients undergoing thoracic surgery and to estimate the impact of specific process improvements on cost. Retrospective healthcare utilization... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Chapter

Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia

By: Jessica Donovan, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor, Eduard Niesten and Eric Werker
We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We proposed a simple approach that models the costs and... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Revenue; Liberia; Deforestation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Liberia
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About Us - Research Computing Services

Design Fuzzy Matching Large Language Models (LLMs) Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Revise and Resubmit Support Simulations... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

are going to limit how many people are going to be able to access your product, creating a natural barrier if you want to sustain your position.” In cases such as these, she says, it’s essential that companies seek out other markets or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

agriculture and from agriculture to industry. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership." "Times of upheaval require not just more... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 29 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 5 Sep 2013
  • Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

check, credit card, or brokerage/security transfer. Alumni and friends who are interested in making a gift should contact HGF’s administrator Sandra Fernandes ( sandra@sfernandes.com ) for more information. Processing times for gifts made... View Details
  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

fresh new language so that you can explain, both to yourself and to others, what is occurring for you within each of the Four Element arenas. This movement from access to implicit knowledge to finding new View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

take no account of human nature and social motives, so long may we expect strikes and sabotage to be the ordinary accompaniment of industry. Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Management, Harvard Business School, 1920 Elton Mayo at... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin