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16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

the United States, Rosenthal stumbled across an unexpected source of innovation. Rosenthal, a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in business history at Harvard Business School, found that southern plantation owners kept complex and meticulous... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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Donor Societies - Alumni

Specially selected HBS cases or articles that exemplify faculty research $25,000+ Above offerings Faculty-authored book plus invitation to members-only virtual event with author $50,000+ Above offerings Recognition on the HBS campus Invitation to annual View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Winners & Runners-Up 2024 Winners Play Video duration: 1:31 2024 New Venture Competition Winner, Business Track: Crop Diagnostix Crop Diagnostix is redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights. Team: Brandon Chi, View Details

04 Jun 2024
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Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

Harnessing customer data well is central to any modern business, as is earning consumers’ trust that their information will stay private. With data breaches growing more common, regulations are tightening across the globe to bolster... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

21 Apr 2023
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The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

seem to make more informed, calculated purchase decisions. A patchwork of regulation Loot boxes—and whether they may simply constitute an addictive form of gambling for some players—are now being debated by regulators across the world.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting

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Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

finance to supply chain, and from CEOs to CFOs, climate has become a business imperative that extends across sectors and disciplines. HBS professors share the latest insights. Highlights Video Full Panel Video Inching Closer: Who Will Pay... View Details

2021
Working Paper

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr

U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial... View Details

Keywords: Invention; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; United States

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2014
Working Paper

Agenda Setting at the FASB: Evidence from the Role of the FASAC

By: Abigail Allen

I examine the extent to which the FASB's agenda determination is a function of the contemporaneous preferences of its primary constituents: auditors, preparers, and financial statement users. Using the FASB's consultation with the FASAC as a lens through which to view... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Industry; United States

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What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?

By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter

In this paper, we analyze the variance of accounting profitability among a broad cross-section of firms in the American economy from 1981 to 1994. The purpose of the analysis is to identify the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; United States

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November 2012
Case

Teaming at GE Aviation

By: Rakesh Khurana, Jeffrey Polzer, Willy Shih and Eric Baldwin

Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

June 1998 (Revised April 2000)
Case

GM Powertrain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Mikelle Eastley

Discusses a young MBA plant manager who is improving the operations of a small General Motors components plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At 29 years old, Joe Hinrichs is the youngest plant manager at GM, and in his new assignment, he is faced with the daunting... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States

April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth

Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details

Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States

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Business History - Faculty & Research

skin color stereotypes in the film industries in India, a comparison of how businesses perceived political risk in Latin America and South Asia, an analysis of business investment in education geographies, and a study of spiritual... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

use is the cheapest in India partly because of the system’s technological underpinnings. We still are a very poor country. It’s encouraging nonetheless that several scientists across several domains have been able to compete and... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Business,... View Details

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power... View Details

September 2011
Article

A Cancer Center Puts the New Approach to Work: Pilot

By: Heidi W. Albright and Thomas W. Feeley

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, located in Houston, Texas. Seeing more than 30,000 new patients every year, MD Anderson accounts for approximately 20% of cancer care within the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Quality; Measurement; Costing; Accounting; Health; Quality; Health Industry; North and Central America