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- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. Publication:Oxford University Press, 2008 Abstract This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Article
Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity
By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
Kim, Kuno, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber, and Daniel Yamins. "Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020).
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
and skills can make it harder for these experts to transfer what they've learned to people who know very little about what the experts do," says Ting Zhang, a doctoral student in the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets unit at Harvard View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
allows for information exchange through summary reports, it's a great innovation because it allows them to share information they were not routinely sharing before." Lessons For Business Aside from the implications for physicians, the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears.... View Details
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Africa - Global
Africa Research Center in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2017 followed by an office in Lagos, Nigeria in 2019, and an office in Nairobi, Kenya in 2022. This center plays an important role in helping HBS develop and strengthen relationships... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
Business School. Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Laura Castrillo is the former head of analytics for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at True Fit.... View Details
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Creating Emerging Markets
Thriving in Growth & Turbulence The Creating Emerging Markets project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East over recent... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 25 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages
- 2019
- Chapter
The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter provides a new lens to the extensive debate among economists and economic historians concerning why the West grew rich and the rest of the world lagged behind as modern industrialization took hold in the 19th century. The literature has focused heavily on... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. "The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Chap. 37 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek, 578–592. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew Molinsky of Brandeis, the emotions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
in times of need?” Business networks form In this sense, the experience created intergenerational ties, supplementing those formed among camp internees. These bonds proved useful to Germans in finding new... View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Corporate Misconduct’s Relevance to Society through Everyday Misconduct
By: Eugene Soltes
Terms like "corporate misconduct" and "white-collar crime" typically bring to mind major scandals like Enron or Bernie Madoff. This popular perception overlooks another important—and in fact much more typical—type of deviance: "everyday misconduct." Everyday misconduct... View Details
Soltes, Eugene. "Corporate Misconduct’s Relevance to Society through Everyday Misconduct." Chap. 2 in A Research Agenda for Financial Crime, edited by Barry Rider, 31–48. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
The path to becoming the very best leader—or the very best anything, really—is to become “the greatest CEO in the world of yourself, incorporated,” says Harvard Business School professor Arthur Brooks. Understanding your emotions, and how... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
that was higher than consumers’ expectations. Immediately after receiving the quote, some callers queried whether the repair business would be willing to match the expected price published by the online automotive repair website... View Details
- April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil
By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
Jones, Geoffrey, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong, and Marcel Anduiza. "Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 323-111, April 2023. (Revised April 2025.)