National Institutes Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

States, began shifting their job searches to larger firms after federal officials declared a national state of emergency on March 13 due to COVID-19. Experienced and higher-quality talent were among those... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

is attracting are studying digital, says Associate Professor Karim R. Lakhani, a member of D/I'sw faculty who also serves as principal investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab at Harvard's View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

for the whole industry. We are unlikely to see progress in cases where collaboration is unprofitable in both the short and the long term. Second, large institutional investors must have significant ownership View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

clear that the vision for Singapore was that it not be a nation of shantytowns. Countries like this that try to write the terms of their engagement with the global economy,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

real estate allocations to between 3 and 5 percent of their portfolios. "Now most of the allocations are going to 5 percent to 7 percent because they perceive the risk has become lower." It's not... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

We observed that MNCs, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank, have taken small steps in the direction of collaboration and partnership,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan, associate professor at the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

lifelong employer due to global competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

90 days. (These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.) The order provoked a great deal of opposition, including an online petition entitled “Academics Against Immigration Executive Order,” which argues... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

business world with revelations it had been paying bribes for contracts on a massive scale—eventually admitting to payouts in 60 percent of its markets, totaling $130 million to $275 million a year. Shopping trips to Hong Kong were the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

resilience and success. Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Anita Lynch is an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and a board member View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate and rank View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

financial stability, political representation, and average health and educational outcomes. But this research has done little to demonstrate the effects of inequality. Some researchers have found no effects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

professor at BI Norwegian Business School; and Joacim Tåg, program director at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. In their study, comprising an entire nation View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

into an integrated real estate financial advisory firm," he said. The 1999 sale of Boston Financial's $8 billion Real Estate Institutional Advisory Practice to the Lend Lease Corporation was extremely... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

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