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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Attendees will learn how an organization’s past success can be either an asset or a liability in driving future growth. Raffaelli’s research introduces three reinvention traps—rooted in organizational identity, architecture, and collaboration norms—that can hinder... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Crisis or Opportunity? Psychological Science Ayse Yemiscigil, A.V. Whillans, and N. Powdthavee “Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? In a nationally representative View Details
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VBHCD Intensive Seminars - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

pharmaceuticals), and professional services. Participants from the U.S. and other countries are invited to apply. Course Format: Intensive, graduate-level, five-day course In-person, HBS Campus Course Sessions: Case study discussions... View Details
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The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

The academic study of institutions provides important insights into topics such as job design and health-care reform. But the field is a complex one, and it's not always obvious to outsiders how the intellectual tools of the trade are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
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Yanhua Bird's research encompasses two streams: (1) entrepreneurship and social innovation — how the design and structure of alternative forms of enterprises influence their activities and success, with a focus on peer-to-peer markets and social enterprises, and (2)... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Social Evaluation; Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Social Movements; Non-market Strategy; Corporate Sustainability
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

Keywords: by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

study a CSO's responsibilities and to look at how the role shifts depending on the company's level of commitment, Serafeim and Miller surveyed 66 CSOs and people with similar duties but different titles in 27 industries. They found that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

Elizabeth Murray A panel of distinguished historians offered interesting perspectives on the evolution of entrepreneurial women in the U.S. The historians were asked to delve into their reactions to the exhibit, "Enterprising Women:... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

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MBA Experience - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics As part of the MBA curriculum, students analyze many cases focused on health care, and can customize their second-year experience by choosing courses, projects, papers, and independent studies specific to health... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

In 2015, preliminary results of a groundbreaking study found that the daughters of employed mothers often perform better in their eventual careers than the daughters of stay-at-home moms. Now the full study... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2021
  • Article

Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States
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  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

  Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

    deontology consists of many principles, which might, at times, conflict. In three studies, we design a conflict around moral principles and find that the relationship between moral judgment and religiosity is more nuanced than currently assumed. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    (iStockphoto/skynesher) Most CEOs recognize the power of organizational culture and the impact that it can have on the bottom line. They acknowledge the importance of shared values and behaviors that influence the way an organization conducts its business. One... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
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    Asia Pacific - Global

    presence, the School has been able to enhance the breadth and depth of faculty research and case studies in the Asia-Pacific region. Locations Harvard Center Shanghai Shanghai, China Asia-Pacific Research Center: Singapore Singapore... View Details