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- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the access to capital, counseling, and contracts they need to grow and create jobs works well and, in the current structure, gives taxpayers a pretty good bang for their buck. Making government work better is a goal everyone can get... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
shrink and profits implode, requiring major cash resources until its reputation can be restored. 5: Never waste a good crisis. For all the pain Toyota is experiencing, this crisis provides a unique opportunity to make fundamental changes... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
quiet, less colorful guy. In any case, both he and Hamilton showed that they had amazing analytical abilities and devoted themselves to understanding the hard numbers. A: Yes, they were both really, really good with numbers and financial... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
The group assembles international teams of clinicians and patients to develop outcome measure sets that can be used to drive improvement in health care performance, for public reporting, and in bundled pricing initiatives. ICHOM is also... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
particularly for women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift toward female-oriented durable goods purchased in the household. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
markets. Portfolio inflows that capture those financial market investments are much higher in South Africa than they are for other regions of the world. Q: Your case describes the complexities of good FDI and "bad" (or at least... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
know the costs and benefits of joining a particular platform, adds Clough. “We’re acknowledging that developers often don’t have good information.” Wu became interested in hackathons as a doctoral student at the Wharton School of the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
minority backgrounds enter business schools as well as post-graduate employment are soon dashed by an inability or unwillingness on the part of organizations to tap into and retain that talent. In business, the economic and social cases for diversity are strong. But it... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
trying to go around all of the rules is not a particularly good idea.” The resignation last week of Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is the latest black eye for the company, which has stepped on many toes during its rise from... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
distribution of public goods to their intended recipients. Fans hope that it will do much more, skeptics worry that it might be overhyped. "Aadhaar was created to guarantee only identity, not benefits... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The leadership structure is complex. In 2010, Lincoln Center's... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Publisher's Link: http://www.springer.com/medicine/nephrology/book/978-1-4419-1689-1 How to Do Well and Do Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 51, no. 2 (September 2010) An abstract is not available at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
benefit-based taxation, in which an individual's benefit from public goods is tied to his or her income-earning ability, can be incorporated into modern optimal tax theory. If Lindahl's methods are applied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
distinction is possible because strategy and business model are different constructs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-036.pdf The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. Prime Minister Naoko Kan's government, still young and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty