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  • June, 2023
  • Article

Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change

By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana
There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change
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Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
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    Elisabeth Kempf

    Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research... View Details

    • 17 Nov 2022

    Life at HBS Chat with MBA Women of Color

    Join us for a Life at HBS Chat that focuses on women of color at HBS. This event is a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students in the Women’s Student Association regarding their MBA experience. These current students... View Details
    • February 2014
    • Case

    Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the 'Great Negotiator, 2014'

    By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
    Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Great... View Details
    Keywords: Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Conference Diplomacy; Free Trade Agreements Environment; Environment; Singapore; ASEAN; United Nations; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Singapore
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    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers

    interested and involved in education issues as the father of two daughters enrolled in public schools. In 1972, he was elected to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 21 Dec 2022
    • News

    HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

    Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine APRIL 15 As the reality of the View Details
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

    organizational problems in large firms. Soon their interest in managerial issues outweighed their interest in economics, and they found themselves with a new course. Today, a much changed course with more... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • Article

    The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
    Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management
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    Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

    childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of employers to invest in fostering a care culture—one that attracts caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps... View Details
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest

    By: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr and Jesse M. Shapiro
    We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the... View Details
    Keywords: Political Protests; Modeling And Analysis; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 17 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

    There are lots of unglamorous, incumbent businesses that have used the Internet to take an enormous amount of cost out of their system and run big parts View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
    • February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah F. McCree
    In January 2018, Caelan Langan, an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was... View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Alternative Investment Structures; Property; Acquisition; Private Equity; Investment; Management; Taxation; Policy
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    • December 2005
    • Article

    Peace Workshops in Protracted Conflicts: A Study of Long-Term Effects

    By: Deepak Malhotra and Sumanisiri Liyanage
    Keywords: Conflict and Resolution
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    • Web

    Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

    nonprofit cultural industries and those interested in serving on the boards of arts organizations. The course also provides useful insights and frameworks for students pursuing careers in a range View Details
    • 28 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

    that body of knowledge was derived primarily from companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. But as emerging markets in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America continue to grow, so does an View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 18 Nov 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

    meet the challenges presented by new, disruptive insurgents. In this case, figuring out that model while others are building new ones to attack it under the glare of incredibly high investor expectations should make for a lot View Details
    Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology
    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

    MBA students to connect with HBS alumni are all part of the latest EC enhancements designed to address the changing needs and interests of MBA students. Course Development... View Details
    • 29 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

    interest tax deduction. Retsinas is a senior lecturer in real estate at Harvard Business School, director emeritus of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, and former Federal Housing... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Real Estate
    • 12 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

    in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard