Publications

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Tata Hall | About

dedicated to Executive Education in the northeast corner of the HBS campus. Residential life is an integral aspect of the learning experience at HBS, and Tata Hall’s layout and amenities encourage intellectual and social engagement both... View Details

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

“Will China threaten American supremacy?” asks Kirby in his new book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. "Public institutions in the United States educate three-quarters of all American... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution. Surprisingly little work has considered what happens in between—when transaction costs exist but recourse to hierarchical View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch

We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Reputation; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goodwill Accounting; Power and Influence; Banking Industry

Working Paper

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

By: Lant Pritchett and Eric D. Werker

Two key unanswered questions in theories of growth are (a) why some countries successfully initiate episodes of rapid growth while others suffer extended stagnation and (b) why some countries are able to sustain growth episodes over many decades of rapid (or steady)... View Details

Keywords: Elite Commitment; Inclusive Growth; Status and Position; Rank and Position; Economic Growth

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27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

Venture Competition The New Venture Competition is an annual student competition sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative. Business Track: Participating teams require at... View Details

September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal

Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details

Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

emerging markets? What are some ways that business leaders have dealt with this phenomenon? How do business leaders in emerging markets view corporate social responsibility? Are there general trends, or regional variances? Are these views... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

BGIE, we will learn about the key economic, political, and social factors that affect this business environment: in other words, the institutional foundations of capitalism. BGIE examines management and... View Details

March 2020
Case

China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han

In late 2019, a novel respiratory virus appeared in a province in central China. Government officials in Wuhan, Hubei province had to respond to the new virus in the shadow of the 2002–2003 outbreak of SARS in China and within the context of the country’s public health... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Public Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Government Administration; Social Issues; Policy; Decision Making; China

June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu

The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States

January 1999 (Revised March 2004)
Case

AMB Consolidation, The

By: William J. Poorvu and Daniel J. Rudd

Anne Shea, assistant vice president at the Curators' Fund (The Fund), is responsible for investing roughly $80 million in real-estate assets. Less than three years ago, Anne invested $40 million into a commingled fund run by AMB Institutional Realty Advisors, Inc., a... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Industry Structures; Property; Investment; Public Ownership; Real Estate Industry