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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
American Big Three and many other auto companies had done major benchmarking studies, and they and other companies had tried to implement their own forms of the Toyota Production System. There is the Ford Production System, the Chrysler Operating System, and General... View Details
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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
economic value while creating shared value for society Businesses acting as businesses , not as charitable givers, are arguably the most powerful force for addressing many of the pressing issues facing our society Shared value will give rise to View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of... View Details
- 08 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
Learning from both my professors and my classmates has made the classroom experience at HBS especially rewarding. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? The highlight of my HBS experience so far has been building... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Street in Cambridge. Land received offers to join General Electric and Harvard Medical School where he would have far more access to funds, equipment, and personnel for research and development. But the young entrepreneur preferred... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
emphasize that gender is far from the only identity that matters in cases. It’s critical that the protagonists whom learners encounter represent racial and other forms of diversity beyond gender, but we weren’t able to extend our... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
Builders are few and far between, but there is an even rarer type of leader who transcends the Builder: the Transcendent. Level-six leaders transcend their political party, their ethnic or racial group, and even their institutions. They... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
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Dean’s House | About
main floor, with a circular staircase leading to a sitting room, bedrooms, and baths on the second and third floors. The surrounding garden was part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s original landscape design. At the time of its completion, the Dean’s House was on the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions
- 2010
- Chapter
The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics
By: David Moss and Mary Oey
What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics
By: David Moss and Mary Oey
The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
III: Skillsets will shift As far as the doomsday scenario in which AI replaces everyone's jobs, I don't see that playing out anytime soon. As new technologies penetrate markets, they often change how organizations in those markets... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
puppets, and it was lucrative enough to make me feel pretty wealthy when I went to the candy store. What is your outlook for the stock market over the next five years? I think most of my classmates would say that what has hap-pened in the stock market in the last 25... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This product made a difference. Had we not had this,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
play a role in regulating hormone levels in employees. The bad news is that far too many business situations actually fuel the very hormones that trigger unethical behavior. The findings are detailed in the paper Hormones and Ethics:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
So far my life has been filled with exciting challenges along with God's blessings," says Ikenna Okezie. Indeed, "challenge" seems to be the operative word for the soft-spoken Okezie, who is about to become one of the first two people... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
writes, "Secretive and far from pristine, the industry [hedge funds] has long been notorious for providing scant information (if any at all) and for suspect fundraising practices."282 Research indicates that long-term investors... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
intervention, the researchers could see the average effect of all of the interventions public health organizations were running on the platform. Using online platforms proved to be cost-effective. The authors estimate that every $5.68 spent on ads yielded an additional... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
far are amazing (and incredibly fun), the team is great, and I am working in an industry that I love. I still don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life or how to find the perfect balance between my musicianship and my... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
Sports teams are not far behind. In fact, almost everyone who is challenged by a friend, coworker, or family member joins in. If ice buckets can help fund research to shed light on a terrible disease, such as ALS, more power to them, and... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton