Publications

1999
Chapter

Innovative Capacity and Prosperity: The Next Competitiveness Challenge

By: Gregory C. Bond and M. E. Porter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Welfare; Competition; Problems and Challenges

05 Jan 2017
Cold Call Podcast

The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry

Keywords: Food & Beverage

March 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

The TARP Bailouts: Saving the Banking and Automotive Industries

By: Kristin Mugford

Comparison of the U.S. Government response, using the $700 billion TARP fund, to downturns in the banking and auto industries during the global financial crisis. View Details

Keywords: Bailout; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Debt Securities; Government Legislation; Public Opinion; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; United States

Educators

24 Apr 2014
News

Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world

products are sold at Whole Foods, specialty stores, and online. Endline’s approach to chocolate is “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as sweetriot’s packaging... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American... View Details

1984
Comment

Capital Structure Change and Decreases in Stockholders' Wealth

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Capital Structure; Wealth; Loss

March 2022
Supplement

Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)

By: Rawi Abdelal, Jonathan Schlefer and Cressida Arkwright

Supplements the (A) case. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised questions about democratization and a possible reshaping of the global order. It arose from deep roots in the history of both nations but also turned on contingent decisions by their... View Details

Keywords: Global Order; Social Issues; Government Administration; History; War; Ukraine; Russia

24 Apr 2014
News

Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people

Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details

2011
Working Paper

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Mathematical Methods; Attitudes; Interests; Perception; Wealth and Poverty

2022
Working Paper

A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk

By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim

Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital

SSRN

September 2024
Article

Political Elite Cues and Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts

By: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Miguel Garcia-Sanchez and Aila M. Matanock

Civil conflicts typically end with negotiated settlements, but many settlements fail, often during the implementation stage when average citizens have increasing influence. Citizens sometimes evaluate peace agreements by voting on referendums or the negotiating... View Details

Keywords: Civil Unrest; Peace Process; Political Leadership; Peace; Politics; Policy Change; Policy; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Governance; Political Elections; Civil Society or Community; Negotiation; Negotiation Participants; Public Relations Industry; Colombia; Latin America; South America

Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the Glossier CEO seat working at the intersection of View Details

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

Educators

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas

This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details

Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions

01 Dec 2019
News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

point in my career where it was time to pivot. With the encouragement of dear friends and mentors, I stepped away from Silicon Valley and enrolled at HBS to refine my technical business skills (woo liberal... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

2012
Working Paper

~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation

By: Matthew Weinzierl

Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States

SSRN

Article

The Right and Wrong Way to Do ‘CEO Activism’

By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

CEO activism—where leaders take public stands on controversial social and political issues that aren’t related to their company’s bottom line—has become increasingly common. CEO activism has attracted favorable media attention, but has also resulted in backlash and... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Social Issues; Communication Strategy; Performance Effectiveness