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- 11 Jan 2022
- News
Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems?
- Fast Answer
Business dictionaries and definitions
Where can I find definitions or explanations of business or management concepts? Online International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (HarvardKey required) Oxford A Dictionary of... View Details
- Research Summary
Organizational and Business Experimentation
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Please contact Professor Thomke for the most current description of his research on managing automotive development and/or copies of research articles (published and working papers). View Details
- October 2012 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Doing Business in Vietnam
By: Alan MacCormack, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Dawn H. Lau
This case gives an overview of the current business environment in Vietnam as of 2012. The first part of the case introduces the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country of which anyone who has business interest in the country ought to be aware.... View Details
- June 2005
- Article
Governance Linked D&O Coverage: Leveraging the Audit Committee to Manage Governance Risk
By: S. Datar, M. G. Alles and J. H. Friedland
Datar, S., M. G. Alles, and J. H. Friedland. "Governance Linked D&O Coverage: Leveraging the Audit Committee to Manage Governance Risk." International Journal of Disclosure and Governance 2, no. 2 (June 2005): 114–129.
International Business and Decentralized Finance
Over the last decade, the green shoots of a new economic order have emerged as decentralized technologies challenge traditional financial systems. Decentralized finance (DeFi) holds the potential to transform international business (IB) by offering accessible... View Details
- October 6, 2020
- Article
COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine
Boards are facing a complex new reality as a result of COVID-19. The new environment is characterized by pressures and demands from various stakeholder groups, heightened expectations for societal engagement and corporate citizenship, and radical uncertainty about the... View Details
Paine, Lynn S. "COVID-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 6, 2020).
- Article
Switching Costs and Bidding Parity in Government Procurement of Computer Systems
By: Luis Cabral and Shane Greenstein
Cabral, Luis, and Shane Greenstein. "Switching Costs and Bidding Parity in Government Procurement of Computer Systems." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 6, no. 2 (Fall 1990): 453–469.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration
By: Marco Tabellini
Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial profile of several northern cities for the first time in American history. I exploit this... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Race; City; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; History; United States
Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?
By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Fisman, Raymond, Rakesh Khurana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-066, April 2005.
- 16 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Government Debt Management at the Zero Lower Bound
- 2000
- Book
Business Analysis and Valuation
By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Victor L. Bernard
Healy, Paul M., Krishna G. Palepu, and Victor L. Bernard. Business Analysis and Valuation. 2nd ed. South-Western College Publishing, 2000.
- September 2011
- Article
On Testing Business Models
By: D. Huelsbeck, K. Merchant and Tatiana Sandino
This study explored management decisions regarding formal empirical testing of business models. It documented a test of one company's business model under seemingly favorable conditions for such a test – a successful single product firm following a consistent strategy... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Non-financial Performance Measures; Business Models; Management Control; Decisions; Business Model; Performance Evaluation
Huelsbeck, D., K. Merchant, and Tatiana Sandino. "On Testing Business Models." Accounting Review 86, no. 5 (September 2011): 1631–1654. (Awarded a Research Grant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.)
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 20 Oct 2014
- News
Government subsidies not the key to venture capital
- 2010
- Working Paper
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-018, August 2010.
- 2007
- Book
How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
Vietor, Richard H. K. How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
including, but not limited to, deregulation,” write Moss and his coauthor Daniel Carpenter, the Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University. In fact, the evidence suggests that strong or pervasive... View Details