University Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

Democrat-Republican nonsense. They get elected to help people, but it's criminal those people in Washington don't work together, don't speak together." Likewise, Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Faculty Faculty Michael Porter , chair of the Workshop, is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor based at Harvard... View Details

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1.20 Joint Degree Programs | MBA

1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.0 Academic Information & Policies In collaboration with six Harvard University graduate schools, Harvard Business School offers seven Joint Degree programs. These programs prepare individuals for complex... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Faculty Books

from ensured. In the face of teetering European economies, income inequality, resource depletion, mass migration from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism, and other threats to continuing prosperity, how can capitalism be sustained? The authors argue that... View Details

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2008
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“Where can we find such a person?”

whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and... View Details

Keywords: stem cell; Management

27 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

Dr. Baozhong Su now is an Asian Fellow at Ash Center for Demo Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. As a professor, he comes from the College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural View Details

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How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders | Working Knowledge

for failing to change the sometimes secretive ways of corporate boards during high-stakes proxy voting over executive pay and other governance issues. But recent research finds that boards substantially increase their engagement with... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

cultural and political perspective.” Next she was admitted to the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand where, in 1996, she became the first black woman to graduate from the school of chemical engineering; she now sits on the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

consequences of correcting these erroneous beliefs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53126 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

study with University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Namho Kang; EDHEC Business School Research Associate and Affiliated Professor Gideon Ozik; and Boston College Professor Ronnie Sadka, chairperson of the finance department, Carroll... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

wealth, funeral rites, and marriage, Borders and the Self elevates the question of Igbo identity by threading in the personal histories of the Ajene and Okeke families—which became united by marriage amid the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War—into a broader, more... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa; Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow... View Details

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Historical Research - India

Service (FBIS) FBIS is a United States government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources... View Details

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)

2019) is the Director of Government Commercialization at Solugen If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Revealing, useful, and fun. Was an HBS MBA worth it? The standard argument against getting an MBA... View Details

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Corps School, and the Quartermaster ROTC unit at HBS. Photographs include soldiers in military formation on the HBS and Harvard University campuses, in classrooms, playing sports, at dances and other social events, with family members,... View Details

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Rye Barcott

provided the scholarship for his education, Rye studied Swahili and, in his junior year at the University of North Carolina, took his new language skills to Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in the world. "I lived in... View Details

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