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20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

think about the transaction influences their behavior. "Exchange norms" are defined by reciprocity—I get this, you get that. It's the kind of interaction we have with business associates or when we are buying a house or a car.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

100,000 Japanese Americans to relocate from their homes on the Pacific coast to internment camps in other parts of the country. Not knowing how long the internment would last, many of the internees hurriedly sold their houses and assets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

electronics and high-end data storage systems, for example, it makes sense for each business unit to have its own marketing chief, housed in that unit. But if the firm decides to focus solely on the high-end corporate customers, the CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

exactly like fire insurance. On any given day, you won't see any benefit. In fact, you could go years shelling out money for a service you aren't using. But on the day that, heaven forbid, your house does burn down, then you will... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

John F. Kennedy School of Government, presented the second scenario, a view of a world where "the demands of networks in houses are as different as their floor plans" and where "there are a range of options depending on where you live,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

around, who would travel to inquire how they, too, could get connected. The Jacobs place stood out in daylight as well. Next to the house was a windmill several stories tall, designed and built by the brothers, topped with a three-bladed... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

perfect, employees eliminate a product that doesn’t look right, throwing it into the compost heap. That drives similar behavior in warehouse and packing house workers. It goes all the way to the person who picks the fruit and passes over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump emphasized the power of tax cuts to drive economic growth. TCJA divided the U.S. Congress. The Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) celebrated it as "something I have been working on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

trends beyond their control. And Circuit City's dark and empty big box stores, like Detroit's boarded-up houses and overgrown factories, remind us of the failings and offer a sense of finality. That's a neat and tidy narrative to attach... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

wanted to invest. Roberts also took into account the possible impact on his mutually respectful relations with his fellow partners. From a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, Roberts became a scientist who did advanced study at Duke... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409022 Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A) Harvard Business School Case 207-017 tKenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

extra minutes to look for the answers to those questions,” says Gino, who has four children. “Now we have an opportunity to do just that. Even learning something small can give you pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.” And if the house... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

away with? We had sessions on innovation, real estate derivatives, the history of housing crises, trade deficits, the global economy, business ethics, stem cell research, and China's role in the new world economy. The link between them is... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen corporate sector investment and employment activity. These corporate reactions follow both Senate and House committee chair changes, are present... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

other business practitioners. Much of the science discussed will unfold in the Allston complex's four buildings, which will house Harvard's initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

book manuscript and seeking a publisher for it. This includes filling a few gaps in my research by using historical collections that are housed here at HBS and at a number of other libraries in the Boston area. Bank records have been... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to... View Details