Economics Of Information System - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

great change in recent years has been in China itself. The state-owned enterprises have realized the realities of competition and the need to improve costs and quality significantly. Furthermore, the government has allowed multiple View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

02 Feb 2004
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Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

measures; 2) customers; 3) internal processes; and 4) learning and growth. Developed by HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan, chairman of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and David P. Norton, co-founder with Kaplan and president View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

publicly traded companies. But the relationship between the spectacular rise of sustainable investing and the growing number of “green patents,” as defined by the Organization for View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

February 2025
Case

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details

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05 Nov 2024
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Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

But what if technology had the power to make a small business owner significantly wiser about their cash flow, and a lender wiser as well? What if new loan products and services made it easier to create what one investor calls a “truth file”—a set View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

01 Feb 2017
News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to deepen the faculty's... View Details

April 2025
Article

Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital

By: Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang and Hyejin Youn

Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nested structure within skill portfolios, where the direction of dependency is inferred... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Analytics and Data Science

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11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about the forces View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Aug 2001
News

Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

and currency crises—is a crucial aspect to making informed managerial decisions. The cases in this book have been designed to give students an appreciation of the critical role View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Yueran Ma

appears to be a significant component of financing activities in capital markets today; it could also affect how we think about government policies like quantitative easing, as well as other corporate activities like mergers. I have also... View Details

31 Aug 2009
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Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

between firms' CSR ratings and analysts' forecast errors, indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874 August 2013 A New View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2005
News

Faculty Books

bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders? Is this an efficient use... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

19 Jun 2018
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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... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the View Details

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