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  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

Steinberg, and Ann Raldow, and medical physicist Nzhde Agazaryan. A spectrum of close calls The research team wanted to understand the role of psychological safety—defined as “the shared belief that interpersonal risk-taking is safe”—in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • Research Summary

Innovation and Productivity

In this stream of research, Professor Steinwender examines how firms adjust their innovative behavior and productivity in response to changes in the external environment. Analyzing Spanish firm-level data, she finds that two mechanisms proposed in the economic... View Details

    Derek C. M. van Bever

    Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

      Mihir A. Desai

      Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

      • September 2014
      • Article

      Pollution and Skin: From Epidemiological and Mechanistic Studies to Clinical Implications

      By: Jean Krutmann, Wei Liu, Li Li, Xiaochuan Pan, Martha Crawford, Gabrielle Sore and Sophie Seite
      In recent years, the health effects associated with air pollution have been intensively studied. Most studies focus on air pollution effects on the lung and the cardiovascular system. More recently, however, epidemiological and mechanistic studies suggest that air... View Details
      Keywords: Pollutants; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties
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      • 26 Oct 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

      For a better shot at landing the top job at today’s companies, aspiring CEOs should set aside their slide presentations and work on their listening skills instead, new research suggests. Companies are increasingly seeking socially adept... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
      • December 2006 (Revised October 2007)
      • Case

      Embrapa

      By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
      Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production system that will allow farmers and ranchers to intensify production and improve profitability. Broad adoption of the technology would provide the... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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      • June 2003 (Revised October 2006)
      • Case

      George McClelland at KSR (A)

      By: Joshua D. Margolis, Ayesha Kanji and Wan Wong
      George McClelland accepts a position as the chief administrative officer/chief operating officer at Kendall Square Research (KSR), a fledgling computer company that is taking its promising parallel computer technology to market. McClelland is a veteran of the computer... View Details
      Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Business History; Accounting; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Growth and Development; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

      By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
      Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status... View Details
      Keywords: IPO; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States
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      • 24 Feb 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

      The research provides food for thought as policymakers debate the efficacy and fairness of education initiatives like No Child Left Behind, the 2001 United States Act of Congress requiring federally funded... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
      • 25 Oct 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

      origination up to 15 months after. “Fintech borrowers only partially consolidate their debts, and then a few months down the line, they know that they have these credit cards that are empty and they start using them again.” In a nutshell, fintech borrowers who View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

        Robert Simons

        Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

          Myra M. Hart

          Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

          Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
          • October 1, 2021
          • Article

          An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

          By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
          Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
          Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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          • 18 Nov 2010
          • Research & Ideas

          GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

          On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
          Keywords: by Staff; Auto
          • February 13, 2025
          • Article

          Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs

          By: Jaya Y. Wen, Ebehi Iyoha, Edmund Malesky and Sung-Ju Wu
          When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes. Research in the aftermath of the 2018 U.S.-China trade war examined this phenomenon, finding... View Details
          Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; International Relations; United States; China
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          • October 2015
          • Case

          The Maine Food Cluster Project

          By: Karen Mills and Aldo Sesia
          The Libra Foundation is exploring how to grow the food sector in Maine using the strategy of creating a food cluster initiative. Maine is one of the poorest states in the United States and the food sector is one of the largest employers. Multiple efforts in... View Details
          Keywords: Development Economics; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Maine; Vermont; Oregon; Denmark
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          • 21 Feb 2013
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

          Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
          • 02 Aug 2021
          • Research & Ideas

          What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

          touting their pay transparency policies as a means of ensuring fairness. But, as it turns out, pay transparency doesn’t necessarily increase workers’ wages, writes Harvard Business School professor Zoe Cullen in a new working paper. More than 20 US states and 10 View Details
          Keywords: by Avery Forman
          • 29 Jan 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

          Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne