• 01 Jun 2001
• News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

into the fabric of economic life. It’s really interesting to look back and see in the collections that a number of trends that we consider so modern concerning women in the workplace are not creations of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

• 16 Feb 2004
• Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Europe Research Center (ERC) is the newest of Harvard Business School's Global Initiative research centers, having opened its doors in July 2002. With the political and economic currents now affecting relations between the United... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

• Web

Global Maps - Creating Emerging Markets

Global Maps Historical Data Visualization The HBS Historical Data Visualization (HDV) tool charts the global growth and evolution of business over time and includes historical mapping of major economic and political indicators. It... View Details

• 01 Apr 1997
• News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's View Details

• 17 May 2004
• Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

• 28 Aug 2008
• Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing ahistorical nature of much management... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

• 24 Feb 2009
• First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 11 Dec 2018
• Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

the Summit experience on the @hbsadmissions Instagram, here’s the background on how I began investing, my experience at HBS, and career advice from the Summit. What made you choose a career in investing? Taking economics as the 2008... View Details

• 08 Oct 2021
• Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to publish. The spikes in violations and penalties in paperless... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

• 27 Apr 2021
• Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate... View Details

• 17 Nov 2015
• First Look

November 17, 2015

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 16 Oct 2018
• First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

• 10 Jan 2005
• Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

the meaning of leadership. Most scholars (not to mention boards of directors) gauge the effectiveness of leadership almost exclusively through a lens of economic performance, specifically return on investment, say professors Joel M.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 01 Jun 2006
• News

CEO Compensation Troubles

long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

• 03 Feb 2011
• What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

ideas in management and applied economics. They include a wide range of topics, including several drawn from what have come to be known as neuro economics (how managers really think and act), behavioral economics, phenomena of irrational... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

• 23 Mar 2003
• Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

percent of the world's economic output, and only 1 percent of the investment. "Africa has still not played the role we'd expect it to play in this messy phenomenon of globalization," Spar said. Pandora's Box Mark Shuttleworth,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette