Complicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2021
News

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what would be best for each student. That in itself is a complicated operational challenge. On top of that, you have hiring demands and the need to create a culture in which teachers feel enabled to develop professionally. You also need... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

task, but one necessary for achieving high performance. The design and implementation tasks are complicated by the fact that schools across large districts have wide variation not only in performance, but also in their capacity to... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995 and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population and take outcome measurement to a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

Collins Properties, must decide with its equity partner whether to continue funding the building's losses while trying to lease the vacant space, restructure the debt, or default on the loan and turn the building over to its lenders. The decision is made more View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

intense margin pressure. This case allows students to discuss the keys to Beingmate’s past successes and debate its existing strategy in the context of a very complicated market. One key question is how Beingmate might leverage its... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

were sparked by the killing of George Floyd. Tell me about your own reaction to that news. Lisa Lewin: Oh, April, that is such a heavy, complicated question. So as an African-American woman of a certain age, I have over four-and-a-half... View Details

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a value-based health care system. To... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

the platform will help streamline global trade since shipping goods internationally is an extraordinarily complicated and inefficient process. Maersk intends for stakeholders throughout the supply chain to utilize the platform, including... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

was the result of deleveraging and the post-Global Financial Crisis period, a mere cyclical phase. Distilling the sources and drivers of productivity decline was further complicated by the rise in economic integration across countries,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot more complicated when the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

bit more complicated than originally anticipated. A new Harvard Business School case study called "Marketing the '$100 PC'" spells out these opportunities, problems, and challenges from a marketing point of view. As the case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

PhD. in biochemistry, said that even though issues regarding intellectual property and patent rights are ever more complicated by new discoveries, the language of the court remains very broad. However, there are a few basics to keep in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing, to cite only two factors, "Starting new businesses is a much more View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

more complex, even more complicated given the fact that there is often geographic distance between the employee themselves and their parent. And so when we think about the supports that are going to be important, it is going to look... View Details

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

big factor for us when socializing.” Even without the new complications Covid-19 has inflicted, creating a meaningful HBS social life while managing family time requires students to be a little creative. Kuni Kambe (MBA ’21, Old Section... View Details

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