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Morris Hall | About

four-story, 50,000-square-foot student residence hall. The U-shaped, Georgian Revival-style structure underwent an extensive renovation in 1982 and received updated safety systems in 2007. As renovated, Morris offers single rooms with... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

economic system. But what made the U.S. unique was the scale of American firms that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These massive manufacturing concerns, which produced tremendous numbers of business... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 2014
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Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters

By: Michael I. Norton
Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

entrepreneur or as an investor. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810072-PDF-ENG U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia PineiroHarvard Business School Case 710-040 The national View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2009
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Managing Risk in the New World

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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    Steven C. Wheelwright

    Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

    Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

    • 03 Mar 2009
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    First Look: March 3, 2009

    auditors, and financial analysts. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109039 The Federal Reserve and the Banking Crisis of 1931 Harvard Business School Case 709-040 In early October 1931, in the midst of a global View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 18 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

    preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong Kong. By 1843, the Canton trade View Details
    • 30 Apr 2019
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    New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

    prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today’s most insightful economists reveal... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

    attend college at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and I enjoyed the mix of the liberal arts, inquiry-based learning, and specialized accounting & information systems instruction. What were you doing before grad school and what led... View Details
    • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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    Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon

    By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
    Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
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    Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

    systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance... View Details
    • April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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    Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

    By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil
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    • 07 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

    distancing. New patterns of consumer and worker behavior and expectations have emerged during the first weeks of the crisis. COVID-19 represents a tremendous economic shock and burden. In recent weeks, the focus has begun to shift towards... View Details
    Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
    • May 2025
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    The Micro-Family Office: Aamir Rehman

    By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
    With a successful career and strong academic credentials, Aamir Rehman sought to design a life grounded in autonomy. For him, this meant serving on boards, continuing his professorship, and ensuring a secure and comfortable life for his family. While he didn’t possess... View Details
    Keywords: Family Office; Organization Design; Family And Friends; Family; Balance; Stability; Trends And Opportunities; Wealth Management; Family Business; Investment; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Organizational Design; Family and Family Relationships; Happiness; Satisfaction; Balance and Stability; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Economy; Trends; Business Model; New Jersey; United States
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

    By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
    When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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    Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    its retail stores. In 2015, the U.S. health care system continued to evolve. Health systems were expanding and consolidating, new health care delivery models were emerging, reimbursement was changing, while... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
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    On the Radar

    Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
    Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government