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- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Only about 10 percent of companies in this often unpredictable industry have been severely affected.... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Philanthropy in US Communities, which was published in the March issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. The study adds to a growing line of academic research highlighting the importance of a firm's main location, even in an era of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
at Harvard Business School, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The question central to the conference was posed midway through the first panel, Social Distribution, Advertising,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
about 90 percent of them were women. "I wanted to make it clear that we really are taking an intersectional approach to gender," said Robin Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who co-organized the event... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
employees of a health benefits administrator that held a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Results: A 2 SD increase in functional proximity is associated with a 6.4 percentage point increase in the probability of vaccination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum." The conference brought together 114 global faculty from schools of medicine, health care administration, public health, and business; leaders of the US professional... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
Max Bazerman, co-author of "You Can't Enlarge the Pie," discussed the flaws in government decision making in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge Editor Sean Silverthorne. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
little change in behavior until we guarantee that those who destroy value and betray the public trust don't profit from it handsomely..." These matters have become embarrassing for Americans living overseas. Tammy Doty reports that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
locally grown coca fibers for the manufacture of head rests and seats. With the help of Brazilian NGOs and the U.S. government's Inter-American Foundation, he found a community organization called POEMA in the impoverished northern part of the country near Belem where... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
it passes in Congress. About the Authors John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a joint appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
"We're trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business," said Lakhani, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
which investors should have access in order to make informed investment decisions, it engaged in a public comment period, soliciting feedback from various stakeholders about the provisional standards it developed by sector. As such, it is... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, finds that 19 percent of all drugs approved worldwide are reviewed in December, twice the percentage of a typical month. However, drugs passed before an informal “desk-clearing”... View Details