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Business Leaders and the Social Sector

By: James E. Austin
This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2015
  • News

How to deal with the ‘toxic’ workers who harm a business

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
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    Current Research

    By: Leslie K. John

    Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

    Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

    • 23 Mar 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

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    Financial Incentives

    My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

    • December 2016
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    The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales, Revisited

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf
    Even as we approach the twentieth anniversary of widespread file sharing, its impact on the sale of copyrighted material remains in dispute. We contributed to this debate with an early study, “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” that was... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Sales; Retail Industry; Music Industry
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    • 19 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

    Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Whence IT Value?

    During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in information technology are... View Details
    Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
    • 21 Oct 2010
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty on Facebook and Privacy

    • 19 Apr 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Pablo Boczkowski

      Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

      Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 55, No. 1 (February 2013), pp. 66–90.

      We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting. We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners... View Details
      • 2003
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      Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
      This article describes how Designworks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social, and traditional business issues. After several months of deploying the SMS throughout its... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Operations; Auto Industry
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      Business History

      By: Walter A. Friedman
      Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the... View Details
      • 29 Oct 2014
      • News

      Pool of grey talent could transform the world

      • 02 Jan 2020
      • News

      Hospitals Merged. Quality Didn’t Improve.

      • 11 Dec 2018
      • News

      Herzlinger Editorial Influences Federal Healthcare Policy

      • 24 Aug 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: August 24

      The Role of Employee Proactivity Authors:A. M. Grant, F. Gino, and D. Hofmann Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        David A. Thomas

        David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media

          Stefan H. Thomke

          Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

          Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games