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21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

and nonprofit organizations. Barrett discussed her new HBS working paper, published with Professor James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, on "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative." Diana... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

Episcopalian or Presbyterian) men from the industrialized centers of the Northeast had the greatest advantages and opportunities for reaching the pinnacle of success in business in the early decades of the twentieth century. Being the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Alesina, one of the most influential political economists, and I explored these questions before he passed away in 2020. Our work was published recently in the Journal of Economic Literature. We found that anti-immigration arguments tend... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not occur as well as why companies... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

industry, based on a compilation of published articles. Describes factors driving industry growth, barriers to adoption, ecosystem roles, and potential business models. Purchase this compilation:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Teaching Interest

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By: John A. Deighton

I teach about the ecosystem of big data, the role of data in advertising and creative industries, and customer management and personal privacy in an era of individual addressability. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Database Marketing; Social Media; Data Analytics; Information; Advertising; Marketing; Media; Technology; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

employees, too. During the first summer, the embeds quickly discovered the crux of the transparency problem, which Bernstein recalls in his paper The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control, which won the 2013 Best... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

volunteers trained by Time to Read. Instead of financial grants, Time Warner supplies reading materials (especially magazines published by the company), classroom space, and tutors at its various offices around the country. Even when a... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

and electricity companies. The news headlines make the arrival of a new book on protecting foreign investment more prescient. Professor Louis T. Wells and coauthor Rafiq Ahmed recently published Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

and Chapter 11 played a heroic role in helping the country rebound. He outlines these ideas in Coming Through in a Crisis: How Chapter 11 and the Debt Restructuring Industry Are Helping to Revive the US Economy , View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Author:Laura Alfaro Publication:World Scientific Publishing Company, in press Abstract All managers face a business environment in which international and... View Details