First Nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

that Al's research has moved from railroads to giant corporations and now to computers and consumer electronics underscores his eminent position as the historian of industries at the center of national interest in each era he studies. All... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

of Business, and Janet Murray of the University of Missouri—St. Louis, explores the role that trust plays in forming bonds across cultures and national borders—an area that has received surprisingly scant attention in our globalized... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

Yelp.com, with Weijia Dai, of the University of Maryland; Jungmin Lee, of Sogang University and the Institute for the Study of Labor; and Ginger Jin, of the University of Maryland and the National Bureau of Economic Research. (The... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

markets, trade tariffs, and taxation virtually overnight in 1991, sending shock waves throughout its economy. For YPF, at the time heavily diversified in cinemas, airlines, hotels, and restaurants in addition to energy, the first order of... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

specifically, the volume focuses on the economic institution of the business group and aims at understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioral and organizational characteristics; and its contributions to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

administrator, she received the same kind of pushback against establishing cluster development from White House national economic policy advisor Lawrence Summers, president emeritus and current university professor at Harvard University.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the downturn of the Indian economy and how it applies to other... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

President Richard Brodhead, Duke first built a medical school in Singapore in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, then embarked on a journey to build a university on American standards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

providers who have the scale, experience, teams and facilities to achieve excellent results. To move to a value-based approach to employee health benefits, employers must take a number of essential steps. The first is to mount an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained dataset from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team performance is positively associated with coaches’ subsequent exercise of racial bias: players... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different time periods and settings, and books that I’m reading for the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the U.S. economy. Second is to avoid a situation where the failure of one... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

at Genoa involves communicating with state agencies about remaining regulatory obstacles to telehealth care. He also is a national advocate through Mental Health America, which is using its free online screening program to monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) noted that small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

International Business and Emerging Markets in Historical Perspective By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter examines international business in emerging markets over the long run. It shows how the strategies of Western multinationals evolved over time. In the View Details