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  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

spirituality in business. Can Spirituality Drive Success? Should It? In a session exploring how spirituality can lead to business success, panelist Tony Schwartz confessed to one distinction: he was perhaps the only person in the world who was "driven to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

talking about, Deward?’” “I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?’” One of those gardens is planted on the 38-acre grounds of the Tri-Faith Initiative, a Sacred Seed partner. A joint effort by local Muslim, Jewish, and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, described... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

savings plans made people less likely to save for retirement. Instead of being motivated by their peers’ admirable investment activity, they were demoralized. As writer Christian Camerota explains in an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

dean for religious life at Stanford University and a former senior lecturer at HBS, describe the hurdles as well as a practical framework to overcome them in their new book, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Book

Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

link: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/TitlePrint.aspx?PID=362801 August 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Rescue & Recovery

he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

taught the course. First introduced to HBS in the late 1980s by Harvard psychiatrist and educator Robert Coles, The Moral Leader uses literature to study moral decision-making and leadership. Individual faculty teach the course using... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

  Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013 Frontiers in Perception Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1625503 The Determinants of National Competitiveness Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Middle Way

Anglican Church. He had been a Christian for nearly a decade, and had begun to feel the pull more strongly. (He ultimately became a deacon in 2008.) And second, the Nanwakolas Council, impressed by his work... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

network has accomplished. RECENT Publications The Politics Industry The American political system is broken. How do we fix it? Start by understanding how it actually works. Industrial policy in a new global reality World Bank Blog | View Details
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

(iStockphoto/AvigatorPhotographer) Recently there has been talk, but no action, about eliminating some or all of the tariffs on Chinese imports that were instituted by the Trump administration. The debate involves salient arguments on... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

begin research in the summer preceding their first year by working with a TOM faculty member. Over the first two years in the program, students are encouraged to explore their research interests as they complete relevant coursework.... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Staff - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Email: mkramer@hbs.edu Faculty Profile Christian Ketels Principal Associate Email: cketels@hbs.edu Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo Principal Associate Phone: 617-496-3429 Fax: 617-384-7268 Email: jramirez@hbs.edu... View Details
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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Patscheke, & Elizabeth Hawkins Jul 2012 NBER Working Paper No. 18249 The Determinants of National Competitiveness by Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter & Scott Stern See All Publications... View Details