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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
TATA IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: Members of the HBS community gathered on September 24 for a "topping off" ceremony to celebrate placement of the final steel beam in Tata Hall's ongoing construction. In his remarks,... View Details
- February 2009
- Article
Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting
By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
Ordonez, Lisa D., Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting." Academy of Management Perspectives 23, no. 1 (February 2009).
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
mitigate via duties and taxes or offer short term support to displaced workers but (it is) far better to come to grips with where your country has real sustainable global advantages. Many of those America... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
Tell us a little about your background. I grew up in Oman, an incredibly beautiful country blessed with mountains, oceans, and deserts. I spent weekends going on treks in the mountains, scuba diving, or just spending time at the beach.... View Details
- August 2020 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan
By: Geoffrey Jones, Gabriel Ellsworth and Ryo Takahashi
This case describes the career of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), a serial entrepreneur who is widely known as the “father of Japanese capitalism” and as a pioneer of socially responsible investment. Born in feudal Edo Japan, following the Meiji Restoration in 1868... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Business History; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economy; Society; Japan
Jones, Geoffrey, Gabriel Ellsworth, and Ryo Takahashi. "From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan." Harvard Business School Case 321-043, August 2020. (Revised July 2021.)
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Mundi—to aid future scholars and enthusiasts in the study of time and timekeeping. In addition to his activities closer to home, Mueller-Maerki has led a dozen or so study tours for the Antiquarian Horological Society to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- January–February 2023
- Article
Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions
By: Michael Lingzhi Li, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Omar Skali Lami, Thomas Trikalinos, Nikolaos Trichakis and Dimitris Bertsimas
We developed DELPHI, a novel epidemiological model for predicting detected cases and deaths in the prevaccination era of the COVID-19 pandemic. The model allows for underdetection of infections and effects of government interventions. We have applied DELPHI across more... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Epidemics; Analytics and Data Science; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction
Li, Michael Lingzhi, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Omar Skali Lami, Thomas Trikalinos, Nikolaos Trichakis, and Dimitris Bertsimas. "Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions." Operations Research 71, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 184–201.
- April 2008
- Article
A New Approach to Measuring Technology with an Application to the Shape of Diffusion Curves
By: Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn and Emilie Rovito
This paper documents the sources and measures of the cross-country historical adoption technology (CHAT) data set that covers the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to explore the shape... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Measurement and Metrics; Technology Adoption; Logistics; Knowledge Dissemination
Comin, Diego, Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito. "A New Approach to Measuring Technology with an Application to the Shape of Diffusion Curves." Journal of Technology Transfer 33, no. 2 (April 2008).
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Effects of Information on Credit Market Competition: Evidence from Credit Cards
By: C. Fritz Foley, Agustin Hurtado, Andres Liberman and Alberto Sepulveda
We show empirically that public credit information increases competition in credit markets. We access data that cover all credit card borrowers in Chile and include details about relationship borrowers have with each lender. We exploit a natural experiment whereby a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Credit; Financial Intermediaries; Credit; Information; Competition; Credit Cards; Financial Institutions
Foley, C. Fritz, Agustin Hurtado, Andres Liberman, and Alberto Sepulveda. "The Effects of Information on Credit Market Competition: Evidence from Credit Cards." Working Paper, February 2020.
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
of convergence can be hard for people and countries to support, though, and over time can mount into an anti-globalization backlash. Globalization today faces a legitimacy crisis that has been unfolding for... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages
- 2019
- Article
The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2019).
- 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
Pritchett, Lant, and Eric D. Werker. "Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth." ESID Working Paper Series, No. 16/12, December 2012.
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
proud mother of three children and the proud author of four novels. Her intense satisfaction over these accomplishments is heightened by the fact that neither has come easily. "My View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
A Century of Birthday Candles
every European country but Spain, all 50 states, Asia, North Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Rim. She has walked the Great Wall of China five times and, at age 99, rode on the back View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2001
- Article
The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the... View Details
Bresnahan, Timothy F., and Shane Greenstein. "The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 11 (2001): 95–118.
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in prospective students’ home View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg