The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2009
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The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

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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July 2017 (Revised December 2018)
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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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30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

geography Web site to promote Internet content integration in the K-12 curriculum and is simultaneously partnering with the National Endowment for the Humanities, View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

or its ability to create new possibilities. One challenging aspect of defining the business model for technology managers is that it requires linking the physical domain of inputs to an economic domain of... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

me, both my mother and father are great bosses to work for, and we share a very good working relationship! All of our roles are clearly defined and separated, wherein we don’t step on each other’s toes but still steer View Details

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

issue. For instance, a car owner who finds a great mechanic through Openbay may just call the mechanic directly the next time her car needs a repair, rather than book a repair... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

"Sports fans like statistics," he says. He is also looking at ways to incorporate his sports media expertise into the classroom. "I am percolating the idea of a course on sports media,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

15 May 2012
News

Finally Finding the Right Fit

retailer to join as a team member. “I want to create a great brand in the men’s space,” he explains. “I don’t have any aspiration to be a designer or creative director. I want to work on View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

successful, but there are probably lots of great things that will have this kind of excitement and get a lot of traction. Would it be more effective to spend my money online rather than in another car or beer ad on television?... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

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

24 Apr 2014
News

Understanding the language of business

scholarships, and supported the renovation of Stone Hall (formerly Quincy House). “I have chosen to spend a great deal of my philanthropy on Harvard,” Rothenberg once said. “I’m in View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

allowed even when it will impose costs on parties who are away from the table. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is one of the great success... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

What do you mean by that? A: Well, internal is pretty clear. The great advantage of an internal candidate is that he or she knows the people, systems, and culture of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

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

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

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

earned and accrued by earlier generations of HBS graduates has endowed the current generation of HBS students with access to incredible opportunities; with these opportunities comes a great deal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

awful ones. To illustrate my profile of a great family business system leader, I'll use one of my favorite examples: Nelson Sirotsky, chairman of Grupo RBS, his family's world-class media company based in Porto Alegre in View Details

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

"individualism-collectivism." This research has revealed, for instance, that negotiators from certain cultures—i.e. United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands—seem more concerned with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

governments that a door-to-door transportation agreement between the two countries was signed. Such "bottom-up" policy changes, initiated by the business people and encouraged for economic rather than... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

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