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- 2016
- Chapter
Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data...
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Competition;
Fairness;
Supply and Industry;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25." Chap. 1 in Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, 25–42. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- 2010
- Working Paper
CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D.
This workshop is designed to support participants in gaining mastery in the delivery of our new course: "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." The Workshop was delivered at the United States Air Force Academy (July 13 - 16,...
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Curriculum and Courses;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalization;
Policy;
Leadership Development;
Goals and Objectives;
Performance Capacity;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger, and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D. "CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-002, October 2010.
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
report by the American Association of University Professors showing that during the past three decades, academic employment in the US has shifted away from tenured positions—which tend to bring higher salaries and job security—toward...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation
By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to...
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World War II;
Vannevar Bush;
OSRD;
Mission-oriented R&D;
Direction Of Innovation;
Geography Of Innovation;
Technology Clusters;
U.S. Innovation System;
Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development;
Problems and Challenges;
War;
History;
Government Administration;
United States
Gross, Daniel P., and Bhaven N. Sampat. "Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-126, June 2020.
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
classic thing we see happen is, if it's an academic institution, senior faculty have gathered to talk about junior faculty and solutions to some of the junior faculty's concerns. There are no junior faculty in the room. Or men have gotten...
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by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
C-suite roles than their classmates, says Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is one of the study’s co-authors. “It certainly makes sense that that kind of intense...
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by Rachel Layne
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, a postdoctoral research fellow at HBS. They are joined by Boston Consulting Group’s François Candelon, Lisa Krayer, and Saran...
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- 01 Aug 2023
- What Do You Think?
As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?
educational system.” For example, in politics, citizens support ideas associated with what academics call “high-acceptance, low-quality goals,” as in: “All citizens are entitled to health care.” Acceptance begins dropping, however, as the...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
at business schools across the world, my own experience tells me to expect a bias toward success. After all, leaders are proud of what their organizations accomplish and have a bias to talk to academics about successes vs. failures. My...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some...
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by Avery Forman
- 2021
- Article
Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities
By: Lu Chen, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar and Stacy Springs
Safe, healthy, and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a...
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Food Safety;
Adulteration;
Malnutrition;
Supply Chain;
Health;
Government Administration;
Food and Beverage Industry
Chen, Lu, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar, and Stacy Springs. "Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities." Special Issue on OR Models for Developmental Studies. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 68, no. 8 (2021): 1098–1112.
- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
job responsibilities. Six months after graduation, those figures rose to 70 percent and 42 percent, respectively, the research shows. 166,000 prospects called and emailed Lane collaborated on the work with Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of...
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by Rachel Layne
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
social media. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist.” In a recent paper, Lakshmi Ramarajan, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Erin Reid, a professor at McMaster...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
of being focused and energized, as well as objective performance, in areas from academic achievement to weight loss. Envisioning both the positive and the negative are necessary. Why? In their paper on the Stockdale Paradox, authors C. W....
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'?...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals—specifically, academic medical...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
amount of uninterrupted call time that the prison would allow. The professor and the felon shared a genuine, geeky interest in financial economics. Sometimes they discussed the early days of Madoff’s career, which began in 1960. Other times they chatted about new...
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- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
providing firms with a wide variety of strategic solutions. The book was coedited by Feng Zhu, the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, along with Carmelo Cennamo of Copenhagen Business School...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced it with videoconferencing and...
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by Danielle Kost