University Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal accessibility, and decentralized... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

organization more customer responsive and attuned to the needs of smaller businesses, as well as for shifting the bank's focus away from dealings with foreign governments and toward more private transactions. In 1996, President Clinton... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

theories have been proposed to explain the gulf, including income and educational inequality, and bias—intentional or unintentional—among doctors treating patients of color. The new paper, Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care, co-written with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

By Mattias Fibiger, Assistant Professor of Business, Government and International Economy at Harvard Business School Oxford University Press After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

refused, saying, “There is a need in our society for fairness creams, so we are meeting that need.” The view from business The cosmetic company's position drew support from many of the 150 business executives in Deshpandé’s Leadership and Corporate Accountability... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto Workers strike) and public... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

convince more people to get vaccinated. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/4llCHjEqY1XunMkYbjrB][/div] Three steps to speed vaccine adoption Governments are prioritizing certain groups to receive the vaccine, with medical professionals... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

In a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and co-author Sumantra Ghoshal tackled the question, "What is a Global Manager?" Their answer then was that "there is no such thing as a View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

sustained growth while pursuing a strong export orientation provided the empirical backdrop for this approach. Government policy to achieve export-led growth is then essentially about findings ways to increase the ability to sell... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

climate change, what will you do to stay ahead of the curve, preserve access to capital, anticipate and manage risk, and invest in new opportunities? Conference Agenda Agenda Conference Videos Ramana Nanda Opening Remarks Leading a Financial Institution in the Era of... View Details

15 Sep 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

interested in sustainability and the environment will find plenty of company on campus. In addition to becoming Student Sustainability Associates, students can join three clubs (the Energy and Environment Club; the Food and Agriculture Club; and the Sustainability... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations in Latin America and Spain. For good governance you need some degree of overlap between governance and management.— Ezequiel A. Reficco This research will be published in Harvard's David... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Have Failed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2009). Josh Lerner : Elected a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute in 2010. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2010 Global Award... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

pools. At one point, America was the world’s capital when it came to beautiful, free-to-the-public pools. But during the civil rights era, local governments decided to fill the pools in with concrete instead of sharing them with their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is understood that the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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