Administration of Economic Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

research is underway on several issues. To what degree are corporate structure and strong unit autonomy incompatible? How much strong national leadership is required to complement local program customization? And how important is national... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

... for one reason: state administrators are less motivated." Mixed motives may get in the way of long-term financial performance. If this is the case, do we view the success or failure View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Alberto F. Cavallo

Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate... View Details

Keywords: media; professional services; manufacturing; advertising

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

the 1990s by aggregating along the economic dimension—that is, by expanding into markets that were emerging, like its Mexican home base. This strategy created the so-called ring of gray gold: developing... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS—explores the many ways the three countries have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

and its efforts to establish Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases (HAND), a corporate social responsibility program focused on treatments for diseases that typically affect too small a population to warrant the attention View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Enterprise magazine. “Then we had a very lively discussion about the current state of the media industry in general and its future, as more non-TV delivery methods—like streaming to your phone—take over. Professor McGee and Cèsar Conde... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

Economics Paul Novosad. “Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities” Among their findings: Powerful countries including the United States, China, and India have less View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

David E. Bell

David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; apparel; e-commerce industry; fashion; food; food processing; grocery; insurance industry; marketing industry; retailing

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

change both small and large: improving how operating rooms function, and “instituting changes from an administrative perspective” that would address socioeconomic inequalities. All with the goal of changing... View Details

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

25 Jan 2017
News

Everybody's in a Bubble, and That's a Problem

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

and software programs have been helping teachers better manage their time so that they can spend less energy on administrative work and more on teaching. "This is probably the least sexy View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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