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  • 22 Mar 2016
  • News

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a school for business leaders. Upon earning his MBA, he View Details
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

research suggests that most Americans believe racial tensions have worsened in recent years. The research team set out to investigate whether White people construct and maintain barriers in their lives to... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

“Predictions are risky, especially about the future,” according to a popular expression. Still, business is inescapably about the future—that’s what managers’ decisions are about. In the current crisis, we have daily grand predictions about “new normals,” View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

dollars, the world’s institutions are making scant progress toward the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The central cause: top leaders lack the means to construct View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

    Making Sense of Past and Present

    studies in international relations, my father “strongly recommended” that I study business or engineering instead. According to him, it was more pragmatic and would ensure that I got a job. I rediscovered... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

    based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation similar to Feyrer (2009). We find... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

    downstream exposure, we construct firm-specific exogenous credit supply shocks and estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    Teaching by the Case Method Diversity and Inclusion Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions... View Details
    • February 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Arup: Building the Water Cube

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Dilyana Karadzhova
    Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Aquatics Center design competition. Their winning concept for the Water Cube combined elements of Chinese... View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Environmental Sustainability; Design; Construction; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Projects; Groups and Teams; Real Estate Industry; Sports Industry; Beijing; Sydney
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    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    prior art that invalidates the patent being examined, and productivity in the machine learning process technology requires computer science and engineering (CS&E) skills.... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2015
    • Book

    How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

    By: Shane Greenstein
    In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
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    • 22 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

    Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 31 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

    forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

    help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    managing— is essential to economic growth. The innovative capacity of a nation or region is heavily rooted in its microeconomic environment, in areas such as the intensity of scientists and engineers in the... View Details
    • March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
    The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

    Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details
    Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Accountability; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
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    • February 2019
    • Article

    The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

    By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
    We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Advisors; Brokers; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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    • 06 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

    most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995 to 2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

    focused on the strategies, systems, and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Big can be beautiful, but it requires creative construction by leaders to avoid the creative destruction that is... View Details
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman