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    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

    marketing wisdom declared it was the role of the marketer, through careful questioning and study, to understand the wants of the customer. Levitt argued that that approach is limiting—you hit home runs by presenting the customer with... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Jun 2022
    • Cold Call Podcast

    What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?

    Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan
    • 06 May 2012
    • News

    Businesses brace for Greek exit

    • 09 Sep 2015
    • News

    Go North, Lost Leader

    • 31 Jan 2011
    • News

    Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior

    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    After the Fall

    conference, The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where We’re Headed, we offer a look at the research-driven insights that could help better position us when the next downturn hits—and the questions we still need to be asking. Focusing on Realism and Resilience... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
    • 02 Mar 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

    be they analog or digital, can be picked. Whether Apple agrees to open the phone or not, it will be cracked by someone if the motives for doing so are strong enough to justify an investment in the necessary technology. What technology... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

    Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 27 Feb 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

    that don't affect the results can cast a shadow on the credibility of academic research. In research to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, John and coauthors George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon) and Drazen... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
    • 09 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

    There is a moment in the musical Hamilton, right after America wins the Revolutionary War, when British King George III strides on stage and asks cheekily, “What comes next?” This is an urgent question for the United Kingdom as it lurches... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 23 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

    Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 16 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 16, 2015

      Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Mar 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

    improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.” View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 22 Aug 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

    A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking
    • 2013
    • Book

    The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

    By: Michael Wheeler
    A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation
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    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    What's the Word?

    She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 07 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Negotiation and All That Jazz

    directly to negotiations," says Wheeler, whose own background is in law and policy analysis. "I'm not speaking metaphorically. By emulating what jazz masters do, we all can become better negotiators." Indeed, the late diplomat Richard... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Nov 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

    the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 13 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Inner Life of Leaders

    was Eisenhower's difficulty during World War II in confronting Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, much to the exasperation of Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. Montgomery fought hard to convince Eisenhower that Eisenhower... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace