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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

and other economies after World War Two. Yet the historical and management literatures have been poorly integrated. This article seeks to address some of the issues raised in the management literature by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

  Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be that if you studied and worked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based policy-making, creating an View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://howardgardner.com/2014/05/27/mind-work-and-life/ August 2013 Journal of Political Economy Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices By: Antràs, Pol, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract—This paper analyzes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207098 Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management Harvard Business School Case 408-008 Describes the process by which the largest law firm in the world... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

  Working PapersAuditing in the Self-reporting Economy Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the licensing of intellectual property in exchange for royalties that depend on the self-report of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

personified the success of modern democracy after World War II could have fallen into a state of failure and inertia, with no end in sight. “How do you have this system that’s not meeting the customers’ needs, the citizens’ needs, not... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

just a US phenomenon. The proportion of jobs devoted to services has shown gains in both more and less developed economies for decades. We found that the US does not have a monopoly on great service leaders or best practices in service... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

local economies where they do business. We asked Harvard Business School professor C. Fritz Foley to discuss the research, which he conducted with Lee Branstetter and Raymond Fisman, both of the Columbia Business School. Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Kash Rangan

flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons learned in these countries informed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

that to happen. MK: I don't think that we as a world probably can afford to wait to deploy DAC or other carbon removal technology. At this point I think we need to try anything, even if it's not necessarily the best technology. DM: I'm... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of people around the world out of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

organization among enterprises specializing in overseas ventures, they did not become the dominant form of large enterprises within British economy itself. Business groups organized under the holding company such as Calico Printers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel