Economics Of Competition - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic plans and ambitions and their role in competition between the US and China. Domestically, China’s economy is said to be at a standstill, plagued by a collapse in the property sector and, perhaps, a... View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

Hidden Business History Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This multiyear... View Details

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

opportunity to pivot and make changes that will allow our organizations to survive beyond the crisis?” Others are wondering if the crisis might contain opportunities: “How can we take advantage of COVID ... and think about emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Papers in progress

“The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 May 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

over time as an industry matures and ultimately declines. To maintain high returns and keep your family company modern and competitive you need to make well-timed, significant bets in growth businesses. Some View Details

04 Apr 2023
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Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

speed the pace of decarbonization in the shipping industry. Furthermore, Maersk is actively campaigning in support of a $150/ton of carbon tax, which could increase costs in... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing View Details

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Bryan Stromer

which path and career seems most exciting to me. What is your most memorable classroom moment? This semester I am taking Business, Government, & the International Economy (BGIE), where each class session focuses on the economic and... View Details

02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. In a recent working paper published through the National Bureau View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Student Activities - Health Care

into the front lines of health care delivery. Mixers & Small Group Dinners Provide networking and community building opportunities with alumni, students, and the broader Harvard community. Competitions &... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

announced it had agreed to sell Tropicana to Pepsico, Inc. for over $3 billion. Asked by Pepsico to stay on, Marram had not yet made her plans public.) One of Business Week's "Top 25 Managers" of 1998,... View Details

14 Mar 2024
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IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

across the country. India stands at a critical juncture in its pursuit of sustainable development, grappling with the dual challenges of rapid economic growth and... View Details

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V.G. Narayanan | About

desirable habits and to harness other motivators such as peer pressure and frequent feedback. Education Phd in Business, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University , June 1995 MA in Economics, View Details

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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