Working Group - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

other Harvard schools and seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in contributing to the work of the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). Launched in April, the HSCI has a goal of moving from the laboratory to the clinic the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

work on money as an important part of my Leadership and Happiness course and look forward to catching up with his newest efforts. My extended family has agreed to share The World: A Brief Introduction, by Richard Haas, in a View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

own business. But when asked what they hoped to be doing ten years in the future, more than 40 percent of the veterans said they wanted to have their own business, while the number wanting to work in a large corporation shrank to a mere... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and honor the land itself, which remains sacred to the Massachusett People. Click on the images below for more information about each work in the exhibition. The Ghost Dance . Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Trade Card (verso). Advertising... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

notion of strategy was put away,” another said. “In the most critical times, it was just next month.” Inflation was a particular problem. Argentina’s annual inflation rate reached 438 per cent in 1976, and 3058 per cent in 1989. “I started View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

people moving from rural provinces to work in coastal-region factories, this status translated into officially sanctioned lower wages and poorly monitored working conditions. This system is now under assault... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Specifically, we investigated the role of three universal psychological needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness—in explaining whether and why reward satisfaction matters for employees’ well-being. We tested our model in a large, cross-sectional study with full-time... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads/ar/1 Working PapersRational Preference for Smaller Menus:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

him to beautiful, aristocratic friends at parties in chateaux across Europe. However, Mason discovers that not everyone in his new friend group is who they appear to be. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, Mason finds himself completely... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

work is not just the pricing but also the cost. What are you doing on the cost side to make your business viable? SS: I looked up a lot of public 10-K forms of pure media companies like the New York Times and saw that they’ve been doing... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details