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  • 2016
  • Book

Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the... View Details
Keywords: History; Books; Government and Politics; Economics
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  • 28 May 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

colleagues and friends.  During my first week at HBS, I went about introductions the way I had rehearsed them – my name is Mauricio, I was born in Colombia but raised in Florida, I went to Georgetown for undergrad, worked in banking at... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience has been made possible by this... View Details
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Fairness and Efficiency in Resource Allocation

In studying the relationship of fairness and efficiency, Professor Trichakis takes the novel approach of looking at varied industries for unifying factors, and he pays special attention to inequities by incorporating both quantitative work in social welfare and the... View Details

    Robert Simons

    Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

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    Crisis Management

    By: Dutch Leonard
    This project examines the special challenges of leadership in crisis situations and the associated challenges of leadership in preparing in advance for the possibility of crises to come. It includes both physical life safety crises (natural disasters, industrial... View Details
    • May 2014 (Revised November 2014)
    • Supplement

    Houston We Have A Solution: NASA and Open Innovation (B)

    By: Michael Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Kerry Herman
    Jeff Davis, director of Space Life Sciences Directorate at NASA, has been working for several years to raise awareness amongst scientists and researchers in his organizations of the benefits of open innovation as a successful and efficient way to collaborate on... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Aerospace Industry
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    How a Multicultural Social Environment Influences Creativity and Innovation

    My second stream of research draws on my first stream of work to examine how a multicultural social environment influences individuals’ creative thinking and performance at a global workplace. In an on-going project, I found that individuals high in cultural... View Details
    • 31 Aug 2021
    • Book

    Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

    power mapping. Through the work and life experiences you expose yourself to, the books you read, the media you consume, the practice of self reflection, you can see the world as a web of interdependencies,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

    concept that doesn't enhance shareholder democracy and, more important, doesn't improve corporate governance. Who Oversees Oversight? That said, there are corporate governance issues that do warrant activists' attention. Virtually all of... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    When Weak Ties and Social Alternatives Benefit Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Wikipedia

    This study examines the social mechanisms reinforcing participant commitment to collaborative work. Previous literature largely fails to acknowledge the wider context of individual workplace commitments, or suggests that multiple concurrent work and life commitments... View Details
    Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 29 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    PRIDE at HBS: Forty Years of Progress

    on the PRIDE community at HBS? Before coming to HBS I was a submarine officer in the US Navy. Submarines were my entire life. They consumed all my working hours and much of my social life too, since almost... View Details
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    Recent Strategies in the U.S. Grocery Industry

    By: Rajiv Lal
    Rajiv Lal's work comparing the benefits of EDLP and Hi-Lo strategies in the grocery industry indicates that while EDLP grocery retailers may not be able to benefit from traditional costs savings associated with this strategy, these retailers still benefit from the use... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge

    & Life Sciences; and the Open Track for ventures that transcend categories. For this upcoming 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, we’re focused on “staying curious” about the future and designing for more human ventures,... View Details
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

    sectors, divisions, and manufacturing plants to sales and services offices. Recently awarded the 1998 Organizational Development Institute Award for their pioneering work at Becton Dickinson, Beer and Eisenstat emphasize that... View Details
    Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
    • 21 Sep 2021
    • Office Hours

    Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

    a variety of circumstances. Battilana answered questions from participants in a recent installment of “Office Hours,” an Instagram series (@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 09 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

    Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the school's View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
    • 12 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12, 2008

    Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Collaborating across cultures

      We propose that managers adept at thinking about their cultural assumptions (cultural metacognition) are more likely than others to develop affect-based trust in their relationships with people from different cultures, enabling creative collaboration. Study 1, a... View Details
      • 29 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 29, 2008

        Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace