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  • 09 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

changes that businesses across sectors will have to make in order to confront challenges from climate change. Energy & Environment Club: Energy and Environment in the New Economy Leading off the week was the Energy & Environment... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

A New Approach to Civics Education

  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

in social initiatives. We propose a research agenda that takes these initiatives, these investments, as a starting point, and not as an ultimate policy objective. We suggest a set of questions that focus on how companies View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

government in making it a success. "Particularly during the early years, the government played a critical role in shaping Silicon Valley," especially spending and funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, writes HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

recommended schedule tends to erode productivity, even among the most experienced workers. “We wanted to find out what happens when people deviate from the sequencing structure that their organization has set for them, and how do they View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

policies around rent control and restrictions on building heights put in place to preserve San Francisco's character have also limited the amount of housing, forcing up rents and speeding dislocation. Last year, officials responded with a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • Program

Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

business Understand the unique dynamics of platform businesses and markets Identify the critical factors for success and failure of a platform business Recognize the social and ethical responsibilities of running a platform business Determine a governance View Details
  • November 2021
  • Article

A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying

By: Grant E. Donnelly, Paige Guge, Ryan Howell and Leslie John
Many governments have introduced sugary drink excise taxes to reduce purchasing and consumption of such drinks; however, they do not typically stipulate how such taxes should be communicated at point-of-purchase. Historical, field, and experimental data entailing over... View Details
Keywords: Decision-making; Open Data; Open Materials; Preregistered; Health; Policy; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making
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  • November 2006 (Revised May 2014)
  • Case

Li Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony J. Mayo and Mark Benson
Events in the history of Cheung Kong's growth reveal how Li Ka-Shing applied his skills as a "first-class noticer" to complex political and socioeconomic environments. While Li's determination to succeed is legendary, so are his skills in reading and responding to the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Portfolio; Business History; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Hong Kong
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  • Web

Curriculum - Case Method Project

Curriculum Curriculum Cases James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution (1787) This case begins with the American Revolution and concludes at the Constitutional Convention. It describes the many... View Details
  • 22 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week

Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman
  • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Case

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

“The main onus is on businesses to make more hours available to part-time employees. That will enable employers to utilize workers they already have with company-specific experience, bolstering their income and reducing the odds that they... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference. Here is Desai's summary statement to the subcommittee with a link to his full testimony.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

"Once you reach a point where a customer says, 'What are your policies in terms of your supply chain operations?' you better have a good handle on that." Enter the CSO. The position of CSO has been created at an increasing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

alternatives. Many users dismiss banners without making an explicit choice, underscoring the importance of default settings. Survey evidence further reveals substantial confusion about default settings. Using a structural model, we find... View Details
  • Web

Managing the Future of Work

global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. William R. Kerr combines insights and lessons from business, government, and individual decision making to explore the data and ideas that... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Bank Structure and the Terms of Lending to Small Businesses

Keywords: by Rodrigo Canales & Ramana Nanda; Banking
  • 2018
  • Book

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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  • January 2008
  • Article

How to Change the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Alan Wilson has a decision to make. The CEO of his company, Grepter, wants him to relocate to Zurich, where he can gain valuable experience for a rise to the top. Karl, his best friend, hopes to lure him to a hedge fund that promises big money fast. Shiori, an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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