Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

plan, both consistent with a long tradition from the right of center. Once these are understood, forming an informed opinion on the plan—which will be an important task for Americans in the coming years—becomes possible. The view from tax... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

is a need for a fund like this at the time of the case. Supports discussion of specialized versus generalized venture capital funds. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

be a useful factor for me when considering which businesses to support with my consumer and investment dollars." In short, Mohan's dad was clearly not the only consumer who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering microfinance while delivering superior financial performance. Evo Morales is an Amerindian who supporters see as a response to the white oligarchy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

exactly what everyone else is doing does seem to be where we're heading." Antidotes to these challenges are reasonably clear: In addition to greater transparency and support View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

For many years, Americans have shown their generosity to myriad nonprofit organizations. And 1999 was no exception, as charitable giving in this country reached a record high of just over $190 billion. At... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

likely to dissent, we do not find that academics, accountants, and lawyers are significantly more active in dissenting. Lastly, we show that dissent is consequential to the director View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

can be used in powerful ways, ideally leading to better patient care, lower health care costs and, ultimately, healthier patients. “Trust on the part of both the consumer and doctor is hugely important in determining who is going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

major art institution gives access to cultural, symbolic, and social resources that can add value to and differentiate its services. For the museum, the partnership View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

activities makes them less attractive to leader brands. They prefer, ceteris paribus, heavier, less scalable promotional activities, like in-store demonstrations, big prize sweepstakes, and the like, which... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

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

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

employees will actually listen to tough messages, question old assumptions, and consider new ways of working. This means taking a series of deliberate but subtle steps to recast employees' prevailing views View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

boundaries for the group's activities; and managing the tensions inherent in group life—deciding, for example, when to be supportive View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England. Writing in 1695, Cary laid out a powerful case View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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