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  • June 2011
  • Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein takes over NYC's public schools and begins to reform the nation's largest system by depoliticizing, rationalizing management, and confronting the union so that the focus is on the kids. View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Organizations; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Management
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  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

challenges lies the opportunity to make the world's economic system work for the people of the world by saving capitalism from itself. Read the in-depth summary [PDF] For more coverage and video:... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980

Keywords: by Kevin Koh, Shivaram Rajgopal & Suraj Srinivasan; Accounting
  • 2009
  • Report

Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Less than a year after the first Nordic Globalization Barometer has been launched, the state of the world economy has changed dramatically. A deep financial crisis is taking its toll on investors, borrowers, and the financial institutions that serve them. A deep... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competitive Strategy; Scandinavia
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  • March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
  • Case

Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Generation; Supply Chain Management; Metals and Minerals; Management Systems; Management Teams; Trade; Vertical Integration; Energy Industry; Mining Industry
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  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2001 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

PetroChina

By: Alexander Dyck, Yasheng Huang and David Lane
In March 2000, plans for the initial public offering of shares in PetroChina were proceeding on schedule, and institutional investors were evaluating the deal. PetroChina was China's largest oil and gas company and an attractive play on China's continued economic... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; China
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    An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

    The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

    among a country's citizens. Some view inequality as the natural result of freedom, a free market economy, and capitalism. It appears to work best when those with the wealth create jobs for others. This seems to have been the thinking behind Chile's successful View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • November 2006 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    China: 'To Get Rich Is Glorious'

    By: Richard Vietor and Julia Galef
    In 1978, Deng Xiaoping assumed the leadership of an impoverished China, after Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution. During the next 17 years, Deng applied pragmatic policies to liberalize the Chinese economy gradually while maintaining the power of the Communist... View Details
    Keywords: History; Leadership; Privatization; Policy; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; China
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

    By: Michael Becher, Nicholas Longuet Marx, Vincent Pons, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Vincenzo Galasso, Eric Kerrouche, Sandra León Alfonso and Daniel Stegmueller
    Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management, an opposing view is that... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Performance; Democracy; Health Pandemics; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Public Opinion
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    • March 2006
    • Case

    The Whitesides Lab

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Francesca Gino
    A significant part of the long-term economic growth in developed economies depends on the translation of scientific research into new products and processes. Focuses on the front end of this value creation stream. The laboratory of George Whitesides has a 30-year... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Performance Productivity; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Creativity; Groups and Teams; Value Creation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Leadership; Resource Allocation
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      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • July 2000 (Revised April 2001)
      • Case

      Agricultural Biotechnology and its Regulation

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      In the United States, genetically modified corn and soybeans are now widely grown and consumed. In Europe, however, they have been dubbed "Frankenstein foods," shunned by packaged food manufacturers, and subjected to a host of governmental restrictions. This case... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Genetics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Law; Goods and Commodities; Safety; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States
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        Himabindu Lakkaraju

        Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on... View Details

        • 22 May 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

        Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak & Alvin E. Roth
        • 2025
        • Working Paper

        Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

        By: Nicholas G. Otis, Solène Delecourt, Katelynn Cranney and Rembrand Koning
        Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are nearly universal. Synthesizing data from 18 studies covering more than... View Details
        Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Behavior
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        • 30 Nov 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

        If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the... View Details
        Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
        • 2008
        • Working Paper

        Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations

        By: Julio J. Rotemberg
        A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the financial system to make sure that all debts... View Details
        Keywords: Economy; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Networks
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