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- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
embedded in the product. When you look at a rug, for example, you can't tell whether bonded or child labor were used to create it. Most of these programs have been initiated by industry associations, standards bodies like ISO, or NGOs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
exposure, lighting, background, and composition. Walter Dorwin Teague, who also designed Polaroid's glare-free desk lamps, created a camera body made of die-cast aluminum with a satin-brushed chromium finish. The Model 95 weighed four... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 1995
- Chapter
A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Financial Environment
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Merton, Robert C., and Zvi Bodie. "A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Financial Environment." Chap. 1 in The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, by D. B. Crane, K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano, 3–31. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
systematic runs of short-term creditors, still imposes great risks on the global financial system. Hal warns that recent legislative efforts by the US congress have weakened the ability of regulatory bodies to adequately combat contagion.... View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of knowledge that encompasses... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"emotional intelligence" may take the form of changing body language or tone of voice to influence the way the other person responds—or taking a break during a difficult point in negotiations in order to turn down the heat when... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
why I started doing these interviews and conversations. This very fact that you just shared. The staggering loss of life. But also those who have recovered from COVID, the damage to their bodies has been enormous to the point where we... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
growing body of evidence that suggests that bottom-up "discovery" has a superior record in comparison with "top down 'deliberate' strategies from headquarters." He asks whether companies should call a halt to managing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
merely “suggestions” Stepping into the controversy, the Advertising Standards Council of India, a self-regulatory body for the ad industry, in 2014 issued guidelines about the advertising of skin-whitening products, saying ads should not... View Details
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What You Can Support - Alumni
student body and society as a whole. Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give View my giving history Hide my giving history We would welcome your support this year, . According to our records, you have not made a new gift or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
openings forecast over the next five years. At Chattanooga’s Howard School, where nearly 90 percent of the student body receives free or discounted school lunch, a classroom of sophomores enrolled in another FRI will be well-positioned to... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
about transitioning from the military to a full-time MBA program? It’s hard to replicate the sense of community that you feel being in the military, and every veteran has to make that transition. Having the Armed Forces Alumni Association, my section, and the larger... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
Norton as a Short Intensive Program. What role does word choice play in the business world? Words matter! But words are just one of three important buckets that fill our conversations with meaningful content: 1) verbal cues (words), 2) nonverbal cues (facial... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
of their biggest insights was how difficult it was to reach up across their bodies to reach the seatbelt," says Norton. "Until you are actually in the car in that situation, it would never occur to you." By donning the suits, designers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
particular law and medicine. Our criteria for calling an occupation a bona fide profession are as follows: a common body of knowledge resting on a well-developed, widely accepted theoretical base; a system for certifying that individuals... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
explains the process to his two young children: Think of your body as needing a recipe book, with each page detailing the directions to produce specific proteins. When a protein goes haywire—as might be the case with diabetes, when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
they coped, 52 percent told themselves the harassment wasn’t important, while only 9 percent issued a formal complaint with their employer; 10 percent fell in the same camp as Dixon and decided to leave their job. The survey’s findings will add an important dimension... View Details
- Portrait Project
Haoran Jiang
words and quick with the belt. Being on the receiving end of that left enough marks on my body and in my soul. But maybe I can forgive him, one day. After all, he raised me when he could have just abandoned me. When I became an adult, I... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers to exports that reduce trade... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels