Publications

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

2018
Working Paper

Ethical Hedonism? The Diffusion of Fair Trade and Ecological Certifications to Luxury, Lifestyle and Illicit Goods.

By: Kristin Sippl

Book project exploring ethical consumption options in four understudied lifestyle sectors: jewelry, cannabis, pets and plastics. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Spending; Consumer Behavior; Age; Luxury

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2007 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Control Data Corporation and the Urban Crisis

By: Tom Nicholas and Laura Gaie Singleton

Control Data Corporation is considering its response to the assassination of renowned civil rights activist Martin Luther King. Four months prior, William Norris, president of the Minneapolis-based computer firm had already committed to building a plant in a low-income... View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Urban Scope; Computer Industry; District of Columbia; Minneapolis

26 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

Danso-Danquah: I always thought I could just push through. And I think we live in a society that rewards that. And I realized it's OK to say that I'm not OK. To reach out for... View Details

January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd

Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Housing; Urban Development; Poverty; Kenya

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

recruit in the future Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718497-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-086 The Art and Science of Brand Valuation Brand valuation, the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

field of customer engagement and on his community. In addition to HBS, he and Diane support many Dallas institutions, including the Dallas Zoo (the couple is pictured on the Brierley Giraffe Ridge), the... View Details

2012
Working Paper

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb

We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

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15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

asteroid miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced, and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy visions... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Aug 2012
News

Shaping a Business and a Community

Web

Social Progress Imperative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the Social Progress Imperative, whose mission is to advance global human wellbeing by combining national social performance and capacity indicators with solutions-oriented outreach to sector leaders and... View Details

April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
Case

Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap

By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred

This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; Private Sector; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Jamaica

2006
Chapter

Organizational Sociology and the Analysis of Work

By: Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire

Keywords: Society; Organizations; Labor; Theory