Intervention - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—"it's above my pay grade." Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final group said that companies were the only ones that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

01 Jun 2011
News

Alumni Books

Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

interventions are now creating more value than ever as clinicians work to provide care for patients outside of the physical walls of a clinic or hospital. Ariel D. Stern (@arieldora) is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an "evaluation nudge"—an View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-111.pdf Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative Authors:Nava Ashraf, Günther Fink, and David N. Weil Abstract Since 2003, Zambia... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

with government intervention. Mehmet Genc pointed out that "Markets can correct the situation if these costs (of CO2 emissions) can be internalized, but government has to help ." But several suggested that government View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

voluntary. They are the kinds of ideas that, if they are in the interest of the lender and borrower, should be done anyway. The result of this too cautious intervention on the part of the government is that we will see a wave of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

MS/MBA program as an opportunity to make a career change. Adam felt it would supply the necessary venue to inform and test his specific career hypothesis. He explained, “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do to mitigate, particularly the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

remedies that would make things worse, but were against any intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—“it’s above my pay grade.” Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

appropriate relational contracts within the firm. In this paper we report the first results from a research program designed to test the empirical validity of this idea. We use the quasi-randomized roll out across multiple sites within a single firm of an View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

work, Tucker and Singer assigned each suggestion a priority score based on importance, likelihood, severity, and difficulty of correction. Identifying the hospitals with the most improved safety scores turned up some surprising findings. For one, management View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, "Nations talk. Cities act." D: Demand Management. Many policy suggestions include blanket restrictions on activity (let's have mileage caps) or pure supply-oriented interventions... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience initiative for college students on the autism spectrum and a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of radiodiagnosis, nuclear... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

Democrats don’t like ‘standards.’ ” Ignore history at your peril: HBS professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, declared that a global economy is more likely to create economic crises than a nonglobal one, and that government View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

use three detailed case studies of state-owned oil companies-Brazil's Petrobras, Norway's Statoil, and Mexico's Pemex-to examine how our theory fares in practice. Overall, we show how mixed enterprises have made progress to solve some of their agency problems, even as... View Details