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16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

studies. Despite its impact, however, we suggest researchers who rely on the Carnegie School have progressively lost touch with its defining commitment to a decision-centered view of organizations. Decision-making has given way to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

vicariously through my classmates, professors, and cases. HBS’s vast number of resources also enabled me to conduct deep research for my interests, receive career coaching that helped me with figuring out my career plan and get clarity on... View Details

2011
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How Do Networks Matter? The Performance Effects of Interorganizational Networks

By: Ranjay Gulati, D. Lavie and Ravi Madhavin

A growing body of research suggests that an organization's ties to other organizations furnish resources that bestow various benefits. Scholars have proposed different perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but... View Details

Keywords: Management Systems; Organizational Design; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research; Perspective; Value

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01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

innovation for any industry and any issue. More broadly, with the 2021 opening of the Science and Engineering Complex across the street from HBS and the first phase of the nearby Enterprise Research Campus breaking ground soon, Western... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 Nov 2023
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

Dr. Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of strategy, branding innovation, and culture, with a particular focus on youth and the digital... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something surprising happened. When the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

between learning and performance. My first research project in graduate school explored the relationship between teamwork and errors (in hospitals), because errors are a critical input to organizational learning, especially in that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

2006
Article

Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations

By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein

A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity

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25 Jan 2024
News

Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, reflected on her research and its impact in an essay in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World (pdf). More recently, she... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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padding-left:1px; border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black">Yes, but not all research included in subscription. (No Market... View Details

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at Harvard Business School. He is also Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

the fact that it is sustainable and eco-friendly, immediately struck a chord with her, and the idea to create a luxury brand was born! After two years of research and hard work, we officially launched MAYU in November 2018. “Fashion and... View Details

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

With a research contract from the United States Intelligence Community, Ginkgo has developed a tool called ENDAR (meaning engineered nucleotide detection and ranking) to detect when an organism has been genetically modified by humans. In... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

sociologist Talcott Parsons. Chandler was also influenced by his participation in the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at Baker Library. Chandler taught at MIT from 1950 to 1963, where in addition to writing Strategy and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

RapidSOS safety agents, 911, and first responders globally Trove Health—gathers an individual’s medical records to enable them to earn passive income by choosing what records they want to contribute to medical research Vaxess—transforms... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods "prime" individuals to be less concerned about or considerate toward others? The answer from new View Details