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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

the Harvard Business Analytics Program’s 400 participants who had attended virtual immersions in 2020 and 2021. Celebrating 100 Years of the Case Method The 2021-22 academic year marked the centennial of the introduction of the case... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-006 Israel at 70: Is It Possible to (re)Brand a Country? In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

the same customers. The Ordinary reduces costs. The no-frills cosmetic brand eschews the kind of product customization and coveted celebrity endorsements often seen in the industry, cutting research and development and advertising costs.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

every inch of those financial graphs represents hope or fear, confidence or dread, triumph or ruin, celebration or sorrow.” [22] Investors in financial products related to Lehman Brothers protest in Hong Kong, October 31, 2008. Courtesy... View Details
  • 2003
  • Book

The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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  • July 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), making major changes to the tax code. Echoing his campaign slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Jobs and Positions; Government and Politics; Public Opinion; United States
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  • 2018
  • Introduction

Introduction

By: Sophus A. Reinert
BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
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  • 2016
  • Book

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

By: Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism... View Details
Keywords: History; Development Economics; Ethics; Social Issues; United States
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

  Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

February 22, 2025, the HBS Alumni Club of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated its 45th anniversary with the 9th Signature Conference at Cloud 39, The Henderson. Centered on “Leadership in an Era of Change”, the event featured keynote speaker... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

put the data in the system.” Sickness wasn’t the only reason for absences. Factory workers, who came to the city from rural areas all over the country, each celebrated holidays by attending cultural festivals, which varied depending on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

faculty and staff with an eye toward identifying and responding to trends. Faculty Total 324 Female 30% Minority 31% Staff Total 1,454 Female 65% Minority 27% More Key Faculty & Staff Metrics Commencement Celebrated Harvard Business... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

political involvement is still a route to business success in America, but it is much less common than in Asia. Leadership Styles In America Leadership styles are more varied in America today than in Asia. In America there are five: Directive Participative Empowering... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • Web

Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

life and legacy of the family matriarch, the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao. The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center was dedicated and celebrated on June 6, 2016 (See letters of congratulations from five U.S. presidents (pdf) ). This HBS Executive... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

their same-sex wedding reception because it would communicate a message that contradicted his Christian convictions. Phillips, who had previously turned away requests for cakes to celebrate Halloween, lewd bachelor parties, and divorce... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • Portrait Project

Nikita Ramanujam

It was supposed to be a week of celebration—after a year of distance learning during the pandemic, the public elementary school in Oakland where I taught had reopened. We were finally back together as a community! But the celebration... View Details
  • 2018
  • Book

Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

By: Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore
When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he... View Details
Keywords: Morals; Politics; Istvan Hont; Jealousy Of Trade; Enlightenment; Economic Nationalism; Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
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  • 05 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Meet The HBS African American Student Union

greater HBS community. Annual Events Black Business Conference/H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Black New Venture Competition Fall/Spring Retreat Black History Month Celebration View Details