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- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School, who wades into the controversy with a new working paper, Enabling Versus Controlling, co-written with National University of Singapore economics professor Julian... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Pepper invested $50 million in the company, part of a $75 million round announced in 2022, and the company has racked up industry awards in competition against beers with and without alcohol—the larger... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
decade. With the economic crisis, the issues of household debt, retail financial services, and regulation in this sector came to the fore. But we'd be working on these issues and offering this course even if... View Details
- TeachingInterests
Managing Human Capital
The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Starting Up America
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
are very successful in the early stages of a platform they often think the market has tipped and they don't need to worry about competition and new technology. They lose their paranoia. The reality is, even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- News
Why some companies are dropping degree requirements in hiring
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
to students about public service, is the assistant secretary for the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) at the U.S. Department of Labor. His agency, which he is notably reinventing and recharging, helps former military... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to conventional accounts, Associate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) told an HBS audience in May that in addition to China’s economic influence, its energy and environmental policies will have a far-reaching global impact for years to come. He also spoke View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues in this Q&A that the current... View Details
- Research Summary
Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Bridging the “Middle Skills” Gap
- 2000
- Book
Can Japan Compete?
By: Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and M. Sakakibara
The result of a major piece of research, this book reveals that there have long been two Japans, the familiar one that was highly competitive, and another Japan, almost invisible, that was highly uncompetitive. The authors unravel this puzzle, and provide a solution... View Details
Porter, Michael E., Hirotaka Takeuchi, and M. Sakakibara. Can Japan Compete? Basingstoke: Macmillan Publishing, 2000.
- 29 Jan 2014
- News
Joe Biden’s Latest Challenge: Closing the Workplace “Skills Gap”
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come... View Details