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16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So it was View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

door to success. Getting the sequence wrong could have led to failure. Though often overlooked, sequencing matters greatly in negotiation. Whether you're trying to get the "right" people to attend a charity event, invest in a View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

indebted.” AMCs in the country have traditionally used that sentiment to their advantage, putting the screws on debtors with a hard-sell tactics to squeeze as much payment out of them as possible. Start with the debtors Turkasset’s new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

to numbers such as operating profit. This does not mitigate the argument against short-term incentives. Nor does it address the tendency of compensation committees to rely on numbers rather than judgment. Going even further, perhaps nonfinancial measures, such as those... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector fully) with the system-wide benefits of crowding out private sector money creation. In other words, the government should keep issuing short-term bills as long as it has a comparative advantage over the private sector in the View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

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

co-researchers wanted to find out whether sustainable investment capital is flowing to companies that are in the best position to solve the urgent and complex problems created by climate change. In their new working paper, The... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

training, Bealeader put it this way: “(If) leadership of some kind is taught organization wide, it can become part of the organization’s culture and something that everyone will understand and respond to when they see it.” Others suggested View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making Decisions In Inequality and Decision Making:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

specified stage of development. It would throw the ball over the fence [to a major pharmaceutical firm] and it would sit around and wait. Sooner or later, if the product was successful, it would collect some royalties." Now, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

development. Although from the early 1970s Britain experienced a revival in the quality of innovation and improved productivity growth, structural weaknesses in the commercialization environment still remain. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

get replacement coverage since any new insurer would learn the reason for the drop.” Thus, it makes practical sense for drivers to lie to their personal insurers, saying they weren’t engaged in TNC activity at the time of an accident. In... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

should be better seen as the product of a specific historical era and a particular place, essentially the United States. The chapter on family firms shows that they could be as successful or more so than the managerial firms that Chandler... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2011
Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States

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09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

because of aggressive discounting by its chief competitor. Revenue in one of Dreyer's new product lines began to drop. And one of its customers threatened to terminate its long-term distribution contract.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract volunteers and donors, building a swell of grassroots support. In... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

in a new paper, Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation. The fundamental challenge, he writes, is that "different people find different criteria compelling, and most people... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

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