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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
same opportunities that we did.” Giving back to HBS was very important, offers Brittanie, noting that “Whitney was a mentor to so many people. He wanted to help make students’ experiences at HBS less stressful.” While future generations... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of U.S. Couples
By: Olivia S. Kim
Marital property rights strengthen secondary earners’ economic power by giving them access to credit markets. I study how this crucial yet understudied feature of property laws influences household decision-making. The 2013 reversal of the Truth-in-Lending Act... View Details
Keywords: Household; Credit; Equality and Inequality; Income; Policy; Family and Family Relationships
Kim, Olivia S. "Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of U.S. Couples." Working Paper. (Job Market Paper, Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.)
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- Blog
The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
shipping and trading enterprise, the Foremost Group. His wife, a passionate believer in the equality of men and women and in women's education, achieved her own lifelong dream, earning a master's degree in... View Details
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Unfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring Relationships
- May 13, 2021
- Article
The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership
By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employee Ownership; United States
Dudley, Thomas, and Ethan Rouen. "The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2021).
- March 2020
- Article
Estimating the Value of Electricity Storage in PJM: Arbitrage and Some Welfare Effects
By: Ramteen Sioshansi, Paul Denholm, Thomas Jenkin and Jurgen Weiss
Significant increases in prices and price volatility of natural gas and electricity have raised interest in the potential economic opportunities for electricity storage. The paper analyzes the arbitrage value of a price-taking storage device in PJM during the six-year... View Details
Sioshansi, Ramteen, Paul Denholm, Thomas Jenkin, and Jurgen Weiss. "Estimating the Value of Electricity Storage in PJM: Arbitrage and Some Welfare Effects." Energy Economics 31, no. 2 (March 2020): 269–277.
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
easy to see why airlines don't offer an opportunity to move to the head of the line. But my research also suggests alternative systems that are more acceptable. For instance, airlines could install an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms: A Synthesis
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program. To many, the idea of halting my medical school education so close to the finish line seemed misaligned. To most, the simultaneous pursuit of three degrees... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Technological Innovation; Change; Competition; Strategy; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; AI and Machine Learning
Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
managers think of customers, and introduce the idea that not all customers contribute equal value. Concrete examples illustrate the self-reinforcing nature of the connections... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Working Paper
Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged
By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
Erhard, Werner H., Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron. "Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-061, February 2010.
The Visible Hand of History
and Entrepreneurship' gave me a terrific opportunity to learn about how HBS engages with issues of gender, race, and diversity, sorely lacking in other business schools. HBS provided the perfect setting to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
14, when her dad, looking for a career change, became a college professor. Brooks aspired to be a doctor with an international practice, with the goal of combining her love of biology with her desire to see... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 2011
- Book
Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky
The recent collapse of the mortgage market revealed fractures in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Credit; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Demand and Consumers; Financial Services Industry
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Eric Belsky, eds. Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.