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  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

Evidence from Medical Device Firms, released in January. Bigger recalls, bigger reactions Using 13 years of US Food and Drug Administration data and a novel set of competitor classification algorithms, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Development (now known as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Their initial work culminated in the publication of the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

    Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights Under Reform

    Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

    information on their backgrounds and their career aspirations in addition to their resumes. The resume book sparks conversations between students and alumni of similar... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
    • 02 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

    book excerpt The Scale Of The Threat From Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? By Rajiv Lal, José B. Alvarez and Dan... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
    • 24 Oct 2018
    • News

    For Women, the Corporate Ladder Is a Battle of Attrition

    • 15 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

    forward to taking delayed vacations. HBS faculty members shared books they planned to read during their downtime, pulling from the worlds of technology, history, and science... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 19 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
    • Article

    Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

    By: Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly and Erick Gong
    We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development; Adoption; Business Strategy; Cost; Cost Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Technology Industry
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    • January 2016 (Revised August 2019)
    • Case

    From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University

    By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
    Tsinghua University is one of the most prominent universities in China, and, increasingly, in the world. Its evolution to this position reflects the major developments in Chinese history—outward looking internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, creative survival in the... View Details
    Keywords: University Administration; University Curriculum; University Faculty; World-class Universities; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China; Beijing
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    • 01 Dec 2005
    • News

    The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

    D.C., soon before traveling to Cambridge for his 45th HBS reunion. How has dirty money contributed to world poverty? My estimate is that some $500 billion a year has moved out of developing and transitional economies. I’m not talking... View Details
    Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance
    • Web

    Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

    US suffers William R. Kerr 29 Sep 2018 | The Hill HBS Prof Pens Book On Talent Pipeline & The Threats It Faces Marc Ethier 26 Sep 2018 | Poets & Quants In America, Immigrants... View Details
    • June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
    • Case

    Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

    By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
    In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
    Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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    • January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

    By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
    From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
    Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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    • 03 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The State of Customer Service Leadership

    anticipatory services, those that are performed before a customer realizes he or she has a need for them. That ability to anticipate customer needs will increasingly be a hallmark of top companies. Aisner: You assert in View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
    • 2014
    • Article

    Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Zhike Lei
    Psychological safety describes people's perceptions of the consequences of taking interpersonal risks in a particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Groups and Teams
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

    By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
    Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Labor; Gender; Technology Adoption; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • 31 Jul 2019
    • News

    Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

    McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on View Details
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

    intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government