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12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

staying away or unable to pay and rising costs for personal protective gear and new technology. “Compounding the problem, SUD treatment and prevention programs risk draconian cuts to public funding as states experience economic downturns... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

and New York," she says. Investing in entrepreneurs is smart for American competitiveness, says Karen Mills.Photo: iStockPhoto She also notes a lack of capital in America's supply chains, particularly small and innovative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

trust we have lost with society," Nohria told some 100 attendees. "It is an extraordinarily promising idea as important a topic as we have at this time." The workshop, the first conference sponsored by HBS's new Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

10 Jan 2007
HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country's government and its relevant agencies to forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA '93), a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

benefits from regulatory and enforcement agencies if something goes amiss. For example, showing that a firm took pains to educate employees on legal regulations can potentially reduce fines by up to 95 percent. Ideally, the code of ethics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

how these institutions affect one another. This expertise—combined with better institutional transparency and the banks' new lower—risk practices-leads to a more stable system than the one that existed five years ago. But for the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

and reversible way to reduce significantly the passive risk to the firm from this mismatch. I believe that the benefits of using credit derivative swaps will dwarf the costs of mistakes. Q: There has been a lot of scary news recently... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

existing corporate transport and storage partners to implement a new strategy of moving bulk produce to remote areas, as well as serving its traditional outlets. SecondBite also found different ways to serve food to people in isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs' diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization

various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex financial instruments... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review, you write, "The current health insurance system in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/economics/economics-general-interest/democracy-and-its-elected-enemies-american-political-capture-and-economic-decline August 2013 Journal of Marketing Research Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations By: Anik,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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