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  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

way to make systemic reforms in the system that would ultimately address social justice and policy issues here and in developing countries. Frustrating, But Worth It Given that education is such an... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and social... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse economic, cultural, legal, and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

    Henry S. Dennison

    In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company policy, called the “Management... View Details
    Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

    right to freedom applied always and everywhere. Policymakers understand the international financial system very differently, however, in the first decade of a new century. Caution toward full capital mobility now prevails within the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an economic View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing

    Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement

    By: Barbara Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille
    This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union organizers, a natural policy experiment that increased wage inequality among Wisconsin... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Equality and Inequality; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Negotiation
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

    By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
    The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States
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    • June 2004 (Revised September 2006)
    • Case

    Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO

    The large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Decision Making; Management Systems; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 24 Sep 2014
    • News

    We Don't Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change

    Keywords: climate change; capitalism; carbon tax; subsidies; alternative energy
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    What is Web3?

    over their own digital assets typically secured and facilitated by blockchain technology in a decentralized manner. Unlike in traditional centralized systems where ownership is often determined and managed by intermediaries such as large... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2011
    • News

    Faculty Books

    sustainability, and develop and execute the systems needed to accomplish both. Based on more than 10 years of research and filled with examples, this book explores the basic structure of a nonprofit. It explains how to build, monitor, and... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities
    • Fall, 2024
    • Article

    Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

    By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
    We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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    • August 2018
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

    By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change
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    • 01 Jun 2010
    • News

    Faculty Books

    Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Crown Business) Professor Moon examines what it means for a company to offer something that is fundamentally, comprehensively different. She identifies iconoclastic companies like Apple and Google that have... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Incentives and Operational Excellence

    Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement systems and... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

      Raymond J. Noorda

      Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the early 1990s by making it possible... View Details
      Keywords: Computers & Electronics
      • 20 Dec 2016
      • First Look

      December 20, 2016

      School Case 117-107 Management Control Systems Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems This module provides tools for acquiring and allocating resources. Analytic techniques related to cash flow... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 01 Jun 1996
      • News

      Four Professors to Retire

      chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how decision-making, structure, and information... View Details
      Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage