Quality Of Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

But when I began to research a broader range of measures including investment, phone calls, tourism, and immigration, I found that, surprisingly, the average extent of globalization is only 10 percent. For... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

excellence in economics research in 2022. 2021 Rebecca M. Henderson : Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of... View Details

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

expects 80 percent of the company’s employees to work either in-office or in a hybrid model after the pandemic—and he cited the reduced quality of informal interactions in the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

January 2018 The Value-Based Health Care Agenda by Michael E. Porter In this video Professor Porter teaches the essentials of value-based health care. Length: 46 min. June 2019 Quality Metrics and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

broader social impact of their products and platforms,” says Luca. In his years at HBS, Luca has focused his research on, among other things, ways to tackle discrimination in online platforms, coming up with a series View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

spent much of his post-HBS career in energy finance, corporate finance, and public and private equity investment. In 2001, he cofounded ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach... View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

serve as the gateway and gathering hub for the more than 10,000 executives who attend Executive Education courses on campus each year. November 2015 Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator The Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation pledged $20 million to advance the use... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for "Bubbles for Fama" with Andrei Shleifer and Yang You... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

buying growth. It was also a big contributor to the dot-com crash: an excess of capital chasing a scarce number of creative ideas and scarce expertise. Today's scarce resource... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

the failure of Long Term Capital Management, then in the late 1990s became major drivers of the market, having grown enormously. They are often close partners to the investment... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

project, I was issued badge number #A001 and tasked with figuring out which markets would be best to enter and at what size to build the first manufacturing line and facility. What was my mistake? While I was willing to take a bet with the start View Details

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

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

more than 230 creditors, including a bakery owner who held a special bake sale to express her outrage. Did a company that had raised more than $120 million in venture capital need to stiff so many people? Tom Eisenmann, the Howard H.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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