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- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
Harvard University Student-centered and faculty-enabled, the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) has become a vibrant, University-wide hub for entrepreneurship since its opening in 2011. The generosity of founding donors — Len Blavatnik (MBA... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
An Air Force brat whose most frequent home while growing up was San Antonio, Texas, Tumulty attended the University of Texas at Austin, a hotbed of journalism that has produced household names such as Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers. "In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China by Yasheng Huang (Cambridge... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
race, gender, and education—may be less useful than forecasters believe. "We find that even guessing at a 50-50 level is just as good, if not actually better, than using some demographic forecasts" How bad are demographic trends in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
studies of workers in offices with various levels of air quality and flow, in which the workers were compared with themselves to gauge differences in personal performance, the authors of Healthy Buildings can quantify these effects.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Jeffrey Lees, a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Harvard Business School. In actuality, most people have a wildly inflated sense of just how negative the other side feels, according to a new paper that Lees co-wrote with Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
suggesting that “both sides”—one group that included neo-Nazis and the KKK and another group of counter-protesters—were to blame for the violence, injuries, and deaths on or near the University of Virginia campus last month. This prompted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
bet on industry’s ability to close the human development gap through investment tax credits. As he put it, “What if companies were given a tax credit for each non-executive level full-time employee based in the United States? Citing... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation, published in the October 2015 Academy of Management Journal and co-written with Emily Cox Pahnke and Benjamin Hallen of the University of Washington and Dan Wang of Columbia... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
have only scratched the surface of what can be done with educational technology.Photo: iStockPhoto "Education is the foundation for a just society, and being able to provide a high level of public education for all students has long... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
know and control what is done with their information. Q: Do these services do better by focusing on the higher-end market, or is the resistance you describe pretty universal for all users? A: The high-end/low-end distinction seems pretty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
intent on trimming expenses. So is the investment worth it? Baik and Srinivasan explore this tension in their working paper, “Private Equity and Digital Transformation,” cowritten with Wilbur Chen of the Hong Kong University of Science... View Details
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
age under the encouragement and coaching of his uncle. When his uncle passed away, basketball served as a way to keep his memory alive and propelled a drive for Laitsas to succeed. Laitsas’ hard work in the classroom and on the court landed him a place at St. John’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
a day or two behind the counter as part of our 'Adopt a Store' program for senior executives," he explains. "It keeps us connected to the spirit of the company." How did you decide to go to HBS? It's a pretty simple story, actually. I took a year off from the View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman Publication:In Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment. Oxford University Press, in press Abstract We explore interventions at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
innovator develop his idea before selling it? In the context of selling original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels associated with different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
will become the reader’s greatest asset in creating lasting, positive change in their relationship with food and health. Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known By Amar Bhidé (DBA, 1988, MBA 1979) Oxford University Press... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/aligning-strategy-and-sales-the-choices-systems-and-behaviors-that-drive-effective-selling/an/11964-HBK-ENG October 2014 Oxford University Press Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne