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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing clean energy, curbing... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about government policies and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
that was poorly conceived, inadequately reviewed, discriminatory, counterproductive, and fundamentally anti-American” After reading the petition and the news reports on the executive order, the decision was fast and easy. President... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
investment strategy. Stolen Memories: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s By Maria L. Ellis (OPM 32, 2003) Independently Published Stolen Memories: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s is a deeply moving and insightful exploration of one of the most... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment effects and competitor spillovers. We find that competitors move... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
and arts and culture management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515701-HTM-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-040 Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste The global consumer View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
boardroom in 2019, moved to the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2021, and ultimately led to a Securities and Exchange Commission sanction in 2023, which attracted HBS Baker Foundation Professor Lynn S. Paine to the tale. An expert on... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
Flint: Did you arrive at a point where there was a particular breakthrough that finally changed the outcome for you? Ronga: That's such a good question. In fact, I felt like there were many breakthroughs along the way. I went residential... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
concerned about water reliability and the need for additional infrastructure to provide long-term water security to the region. If convinced that the water problem would be resolved, then Woolf should move quickly to purchase more land,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
5.6 billion people—by 2050), but consume 60-80 percent of the world's annual energy usage. Vast amounts of natural resources are also used each year in building new cities and expanding existing ones through real estate development and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
health care so that our economy can improve and so that patients can make informed decisions. We must move away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which incentivizes doing more, and begin paying for good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and price dispersion. We first show that, although price controls are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
through these questions, you’ll know that you’ve approached the problem in the right way—not just as a good manager but as a thoughtful human being. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51554 September 2016... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation... View Details