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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
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About - Race, Gender & Equity

About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and solutions, and grow a View Details
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

in primetime on network ABC's Thursday night, is plotting the future. One challenge she faces is to, as she put it, "solve the problem of writing and producing serialized dramas for broadcast network... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds? Thoughtful comments raise added questions. That was the case in the several responses to last month’s column. The general... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

Leadership Initiative Leadership Initiative Today’s leaders are confronted with challenges and opportunities that have never been more dynamic or complex. Helping individuals effectively understand and manage these forces is a key View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Faculty Research Jahez made its mark in Saudi Arabia’s food delivery market by serving customers willing to pay more for reliable, high-quality service—a segment largely overlooked by other platforms. As the company grew, it expanded into the mass market and developed... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

decisions to build great global companies. If businesses are managed without courageous leadership, then R&D programs, product pipelines, investments in emerging markets, and employees’ commitment to the company’s mission all wither.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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FAQs - Doctoral

part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a social network that will... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

both positive and normative features of capital controls. On the positive side, we build a new dataset using textual analysis, from which we document a set of stylized facts of capital controls along their intensive and extensive margins for 21 View Details
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Thomaz Galvao

responsible for their social mobility. Through education, I’ve been able to reach a status usually denied to Black people. I want to push the boundaries even further, to continue the path of achieving new highs where people like me are... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

About Rock Advisory Board The Rock Center’s Advisory Board is responsible for providing strategic direction for the Rock Center and its staff. The Advisory Board includes HBS entrepreneurial alumni, HBS faculty, and HBS staff. Paul Baier... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Business History

Business History in Emerging Markets By: Geoffrey Jones This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

to improve them. “As performance pressure mounts, teams are considerably more likely to follow general experts.” "Performance pressure emerges when people are working on a high-visibility project and when others are really counting on... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations

By: Daniel A Brown, Rakesh Khurana and James O'Toole
We explore the role of the corporate leader in creating value for stakeholders throughout three eras: one of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this... View Details
Keywords: Stakeholder Management; Value; Shared Value; Institution; Business School; Stakeholder Engagement; Value Creation; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; Business Education; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

years The greatest COVID-19 failure was clearly the failure to adapt in time to an emerging threat.” Bill Wallace said, “I’m calling the COVID-19 pandemic a White Swan: inevitable through global mobility and the absence of safeguards,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett