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- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and comprehensive patient... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of capitalism as a system of governance, including a theory of how it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
phrase "tragedy of the commons" to describe a system in which people acting rationally and in their own self-interest destroy the very resources they all share for their livelihood. His original example was of colonial farmers.... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Founders Forum The HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track or President’s Innovation Challenge HBS Elective Curriculum courses: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change, Public Entrepreneurship, or Transforming Education... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear children; and finance costly... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
preferred algorithmic advice, and for subjective decisions, participants preferred advice from people. Experiment 6 tested the interaction of subjectivity and the availability of expert advice. Participants preferred an expert to an algorithm, regardless of the View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
individual and organizational capabilities and presents the theory and research on deep smarts. The six most universally found characteristics of this particular kind of expertise are deep domain knowledge, pattern recognition–based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
Competition and plans to expand to other African nations. Karan Khimji: Eliminating carbon dioxide from the air Karan Khimji felt compelled to play his part in mitigating climate change after seeing the effects first-hand in Oman. Together with a co-founder, he created... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
at Harvard designed to foster student startups. In 2021, the company was a finalist in the HBS New Venture Competition’s social enterprise track and participated in the Harvard i-lab’s Venture Program, where it was named a semifinalist in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) investment banking and securities business in India. She was selected as one of 2002’s fifteen emerging “Global Influentials” by Time magazine; in 2000, Fortune magazine named her the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. Using a laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
familiar with your systems and your culture,” notes Morris. “And we’re trying to get people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” Syrg also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Communications. John Levy (photo by Chris Sorensen) READ MORE Ted Adams: Quantum Leap. Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck in the lab. John Levy thinks his startup has a way to make it an accessible superpower for business—and he is... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
he’d reached at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench; 8,376 meters—now he had surpassed the deepest point he’d ever taken the Limiting Factor, on an earlier descent to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. His board was green—all View Details