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23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

to her heart when she got pregnant in the 1980s,” Coffman says.) Since joining academia in the 1980s, Baldiga has studied issues related to advancement and retention in professional services firms. Coffman, meanwhile, is a behavioral View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

haves and have nots. Economists point to the rapid increases in economic growth and productivity in China and India in relation to more developed economies as evidence that a more level playing field is resulting in huge advances in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of Ronald Coase on the significance of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

productivity and growth. And as the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman has shown, growth has moral consequences in terms of a society’s tolerance for diversity, social mobility, correcting inequalities, and democratic values. CEOs who... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and labor. Harvard economists David... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

adage about the economist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. When the benchmark used to evaluate a department or a process is based on an aggregate financial metric, the assumption is that the department or... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

2018
Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Industry Information - Alumni

columnist discuss the financial aspects relating to all areas of sports. Business of Sport (BBC) News from around the globe featuring the connection point between business and sports. The Sports Economist Take a look at the academic view... View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

The real estate business has become increasingly institutionalized, securitized, and professionalized. I am fascinated with the works of the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and why capital markets do not work in much of the non-West.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

18 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

divide, and to look instead at the hidden role of the supply chain economy in powering innovation and employment. It’s not surprising that most economists have focused on manufacturing when it comes to innovation. “It’s where the majority... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension systems, among other... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

2010
Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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18 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

foods.” Related Reading: Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why. What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

levels of stress. In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, renowned economist and diplomat, “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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