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in industries and organizations where economic models and operations are being disrupted from every angle. Faculty Case Studies Initiatives & Projects Bold ideas that become a powerful catalyst for change. Business & Environment Business... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • May 2022
  • Article

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle
While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” There are now hundreds of thousands of workers across the US with dubious managerial titles doing jobs that would... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 06 Dec 2013
  • News

Prescription: Leverage Human Nature

  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

how the absolute can be changed. A few suggestions: appropriate education; socio-economic policies that foster the family unit; incentives for capital formation and application, health improvements, elimination of resource waste... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

can a company gain a competitive advantage through a distinct way of competing? CEO Leadership What is the role of an effective CEO? Economic Development Competitiveness & Economic Development Strategies for... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Economics article Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? "Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality." “It’s amazing how robust the results are. Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality,”... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Student Research - Doctoral

Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore S. Dafny 01 FEB 2025 | JAMA Health Forum The Hidden Costs of Working Multiple Jobs: Implications for Spending Behavior and Wellbeing By: Paige Tsai and Ryan W. Buell 27 JAN 2025 | Faculty & Research 2023... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Introduction to Credential of Readiness (CORe) CORe INCLUDES Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting, + final exam Save $1,790 with this 3-course bundle 3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) $2,650 Next 12-week... View Details
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The China house was ultimately a go-between, an economic mediator spanning both geographic and cultural distance. — Stephen Lockwood, Augustine Heard and Company , 1858-1862 2 Doing Business with China:... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support. The effort openly recognizes the effect mental health will have on the country’s ability to recover economically from war. “When the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

perceived as a cool phenomenon with a ton of money to be earned if the model can be made to work. Nothing made the point better than former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s founding of the startup CloudKitchens. The economics are appetizing... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cities: The Strategic Agenda Revitalizing Inner Cities: The Strategic Agenda by Michael E. Porter Video of Keynote presentation at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Detroit, MI September 2015... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

formulating strategies and allocating resources, and the interests of future shareholders and other stakeholders would have to be given more deference. The authors point out that they are “capitalists to the core But the health of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Consumers Punish Firms That Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

By: Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty and Michael Norton
Two experiments, including one incentive compatible study, examine the impact of cutting pay for executives versus employees in response to COVID-19 on consumer behavior. Study 1 explores the effect of announcing cuts or no cuts to CEO and employee pay, and shows that... View Details
Keywords: Employee Furloughs; CEO Pay Cuts; Pay Ratios; Purchase Intention; Health Pandemics; Employees; Wages; Executive Compensation; Consumer Behavior
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  • 03 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings

Keywords: by Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee & Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate

By: Innessa Colaiacovo
Multi-location firms face a complex series of economic tradeoffs when deciding whether to implement standard processes or allow processes to vary across establishments. One element of this tradeoff is customer response. This paper explores customer reaction to a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Geographic Location; Policy; Health Pandemics; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Ikenna Okezie

and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross