Harvard Corporation - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2015
News

After CEO Resignation, Is Uber Kalanick-less Or Kalanick-free?

April 11, 2018 - Karen Mills leads a discussion between Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and JPMorgan Chase's President and CEO Jamie Dimon and Head of Corporate Responsibility Peter Scher for a discussion on cross-sector collaboration to drive economic opportunity in... View Details

John F. Batter

John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the case," says View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Dec 2015
News

How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy

Luis M. Viceira

Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

03 Nov 2010
Working Paper Summaries

How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Todd Milbourn; Financial Services

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations, View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

These performance differences appear to be partially explained by the buy-side's higher retention of poor-performing analysts and by differences in performance benchmarks used to evaluate buy- and sell-side analysts. Cases & Course MaterialsCodman Academy: Beyond... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse causality by exploring the regional pattern and process of agglomeration. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/10-043_4b3a99bf-8548-4001-a86a-187318dfaa4d.pdf October 2014... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspective. All cases have been classroom-tested at the Harvard Business School; most have been developed in the field rather than in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

All Ranks Are Local: Why Humans Are Both (Painfully) Aware and (Surprisingly) Unaware of Their Lot in Life By: Norton, Michael I Abstract—No description available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=Psychological%20Inquiry.pdf August... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

that she was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm of Bingham McCutchen. She is author or coauthor of several textbooks, including the just-published second edition of The Entrepreneur's Guide to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations to local projects, the WDC would create profitable endeavors in order to reduce poverty permanently and irreversibly. As Harvard Business School Professor Ray Goldberg has pointed out, such... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

16 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein

Ethan C. Rouen

Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the View Details

Leslie A. Perlow

Leslie Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She recently launched a second year elective, Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA. This course encourages students to... View Details

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