The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

haircuts?), are scheduled to debut in 2013. Johnson expects the transformation to be complete by 2015. "All department stores either rise or fall on their ability to execute a strategy," Lal says. "These are View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

billions who are in poverty; solutions must be enduring and last over generations; solutions must be truly effective and make a difference; and all this must happen efficiently. Only through a commercial approach can you achieve all those things, and View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Aug 2016
News

Connecting with the Past

persuaded the Polish State Archives to allow them to index his family’s ancestral town. “Four months later, I went to Poland with a printout of our entire database of 40,000 record entries. The reaction of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

knowledge, can and did revitalize companies quickly. Corporate board members, please take note! The impact of our classmates also can be seen across the globe. Raymond Kwok's astute management of Hong... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Dec 2007
News

A View from the Top

Relations Bill Sahlman, who quizzed each recipient at a late September event held for the benefit of hundreds of first-year MBA students packing Burden Auditorium. Sahlman opened the discussion with this... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

July 2017 (Revised December 2018)
Case

Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era

By: Rafael Di Tella and Sarah McAra

During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a contentious race for president. In the primaries, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment... View Details

Keywords: Populism; Elites; Income Inequality; Government and Politics; Globalization; Political Elections; News; Media; Labor; Prejudice and Bias; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Social Media

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14 Sep 2016
Blog Post

The Alumni Network at HBS

responses. No matter how busy they are, they always seem to have time for HBS students. Whether it is career advice or help connecting me to people in the industry I hope to break into, they have been an invaluable part of my success in... View Details

22 Sep 2009
News

The Case for Regulatory Reform

This is week when the Wall Street chickens come home to roost. In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

May 2009
Article

The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

By: Josh Lerner

Economists have long seen the patent system as a crucial lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 years... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Business and Government Relations

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11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

Web

The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High | Working Knowledge

measuring what’s known as divergent thinking, the cognitive process of generating multiple solutions to a problem. This type of thinking is considered the foundation of... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

broadly, fellowships enrich the entire HBS community by exposing students to people and concepts they might never encounter otherwise. The generosity of donors makes it possible for View Details

Keywords: fellowships

25 May 2016
News

Education Is the Key

Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left View Details

28 Jun 2021
News

“Where the Dead Lie Thicker”

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

“Howard is the fiercest man I have ever known — fiercely interested in the world and its people, fiercely loyal to family and friends. Of course, he is also fiercely honest.” — HBS professor Myra Hart... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

Justin Ernest (MBA 2019) had interned at Sidewalk Labs. Stan reached out to Justin for coffee and conversation. “He said the culture was great,” Stan says. “Justin had a great experience there working on... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Working on the Local Level

solution-oriented, solution-minded. If you see yourself as a problem solver or a policy entrepreneur and you want to do the work that helps people, being at the local level right now affords you View Details

15 Mar 2019
Blog Post

PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

incomplete plan; it’s more about demonstrating that you’ve thought through what your goals are, how you’re going to get there, and the role the JD/MBA plays in that journey. Have View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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