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  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
  • 05 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear

trip, so I knew that HBS was a place where entrepreneurship thrived. With this in mind, I decided to jump at the opportunity to join Startup Bootcamp, a two-week Short... View Details

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • 16 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

    problems. Yet, they also enjoyed unexpected benefits, including plenty of networking and after-war opportunities for the tight community of German businesspeople in India. "The business implications of civil internment are uncharted territory" “The literature... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
    • 08 Aug 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani
    • 06 Jan 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    A Microchip in Your Medicine

    Keywords: Re: Richard G. Hamermesh
    • 15 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    High Ambition Leadership

    and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 13 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 13, 2009

    American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    The American National Red Cross (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Eliot Sherman and David Chen
    Describes the governance issues facing the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. After a series of issues--FDA consent decree on its blood operations; the response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina--the Red Cross board was under pressure to fix its governance from... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Business Processes; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry
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    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

    within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure),... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

    little is known about how workers perform in assignments to locations far from their hometowns, which may subject them to increased cultural distance, information costs, and effects related View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • July 2018
    • Article

    Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Tina Xu
    We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Venturing; Personality Traits; Characteristics; Big-5; Risk Attitudes; Goals; Skills; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Goals and Objectives; Competency and Skills; Success; Demographics; Research
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    • TeachingInterests

    Strategy and Technology

    By: Andy Wu

    The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.

    • What strategies win in markets with network effects?
    • How can technology be... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Modernization Regimes

    Professor Fabbe is currently conducting fieldwork for a book project that focuses on how societies respond to crisis and how states seek to use modernization initiatives to strengthen social resilience and cohesion. Towards this end, she is researching local... View Details

    • November 2008
    • Article

    Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being

    By: Daniel Mochon, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
    Many studies have shown that few events in life have a lasting impact on subjective well-being because of people's tendency to adapt quickly; worse, those events that do have a lasting impact tend to be negative. We suggest that while major events may not provide... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Religion; Behavior; Happiness; Welfare
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    • Article

    Private Enterprise for Public Health

    By: Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
    By many measures, the world today is a healthier place than ever before, yet a daunting set of deficits and disparities remains to be tackled. For various reasons, it is not clear that the traditional tandem of government and civil society are up to those challenges.... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Public Sector; Private Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • February 7, 2023
    • Editorial

    Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations: They Must Focus on Management as a Calling

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Many management students today are concerned about the mounting threats of climate change, income inequality, health care, and more. They increasingly see business as a place to make a difference in the world. Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Social Issues; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose
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    • 17 Oct 2016
    • HBS Case

    Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

    farmers, academics, policy makers, and social service organizations. “We’re seeing a movement to rethink what we are doing as a food industry and as consumers,” says José Alvarez, a senior lecturer at... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
    • June 2008
    • Article

    Bringing the Context Back In: Settings and the Search for Syndicate Partners in Venture Capital Investment Networks

    Most existing network-based theories of relationship formation, whether based on homophily or structural constraint, imply that actors form highly cohesive, homogenous clusters. Yet real networks also include many "bridging" ties—isolated links between parties that... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Networks; Theory; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Geographic Location
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    • 08 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

    Prokanga started with contract and part-time placements but, since then, has expanded to also include full-time roles. “We started by placing primarily consultants with marketing agencies and small startups,... View Details