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17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

phase." A month after becoming the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Rajan came to HBS to deliver the 2013 Leatherbee Lecture, "India: The Opportunities and Challenges Ahead." In addition to running India's central bank, Rajan is a prolific author,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

might go unrealized. Thus, enabling those matches through search diversion may, to a certain extent, provide a net benefit to society. Turns out, there are benefits which go beyond that. A recent and thought-provoking Science article ("Electronic View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712447-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (A) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 112-028 In late 2009, Wang Boming, publisher of Caijing Magazine, widely regarded as China's most... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

innovation, especially in the life sciences in areas such as stem cell research, requires buildings that must be flexible and readily converted to new and different uses. What will be published or other output from the colloquium? The... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

librarians. Using journal impact factors to infer the quality of a faculty members’ publications incurs a high incidence of both Type 1 errors, when we conclude incorrectly that a paper published in a top-5 journal is a high-impact paper,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of Pedlars in Europe in 1996. This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues publish about 100% more papers in the editor's journal, compared to years when he was not editor. In contrast to editorial nepotism, such "inside"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

a viable business model. In building this model, Bezos has revolutionized many aspects of the book-selling and distribution process, and with his introduction of the Kindle, he has become an even more influential figure in the overall View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Forecasting Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract The Harvard Economic Service pioneered in the business of economic forecasting by publishing a quarterly journal on economic statistics and, starting in 1922, a weekly letter on economic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

up. The United States has tried a lot of models. We tried managed care, gate keepers, co-pays and the like, and they failed. When we published our earlier article on healthcare in June 2004 in the Harvard Business Review, we were far less... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

published an “electronic devices policy” on a little-noticed page on its website—but that policy did nothing to help the airline prevent or resolve the Dao situation. First, one might question whether that policy is in fact binding as a... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

predecessors in a given field. Certainly in business as in education, China has shown innovation through creative adaptation in recent decades, and it now has the capacity to do much more. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from Can... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

17 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?

having and what isn't." What do you think? Original Article Looking over one of my favorite weekly business magazines published a couple days before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., I am struck by how dated (and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

published The Emerging Republican Majority, arguing that suburban growth and the professionalization of the economy would usher in a new age of Republican dominance in politics. It was not to be. The share of people living in the suburbs... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

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