the middle class - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2017
News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

happy. So have you thought about that? Pasricha: You know? At the end of our classes in RC year-- I think most people will be the same-- our professors closed View Details

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

science matters. We have a class, it's a very popular class at the Harvard Business School. Some of you will take it in the spring if you're HBS students in View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

misjudged the results of the presidential election. A media junkie as far back as his middle school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

26 Jul 2011
News

pointe shoes from Russia and sells them nationwide. In 2006, she opened the Russian Pointe Dance Boutique, the company’s flagship store located on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Attending OPM, Efimova was... View Details

Keywords: ballet; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 Aug 2011
News

No Ducking the Debt Ceiling

here.” Professor Nancy Koehn opines, “What does it mean when the world’s leading power (and geopolitical playground cop) cannot govern itself?” The fall semester begins in a few weeks, with View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

02 Nov 2021
News

The Road to Racial Equity

among the first class of companies (along with Amazon and Bain Capital) to commit to the standards. The program is focused on “calling... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

brought new life into the world during their time here. Find out how they juggled class time, cases, social lives, and motherhood through each of their amazing stories. Ally Wagner (MBA 2019) Pregnant RC |... View Details

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

16 Apr 2013
News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

understand how the world works, I'd better get a crash education in management and finance." HBS professor Jonathan Tiemann's class in finance changed everything. "I was a total idiot, with absolutely no... View Details

Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

22 Sep 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead financial and private-sector... View Details

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

class system, or an alleged "anti-industrial" bias of its social elite, or the post-1945 flirtation with socialism and extensive state intervention. We maintain that comparisons which use View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

many reasons: particularly leaving my active duty Marine husband behind in San Diego and being in a group of 900 people. The anxiety turned out to be unwarranted. I more than survived the night, I enjoyed... View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

you like about that work? Do you think it's particularly well suited to MBAs? Do you use your MBA skills in what you do? Lin: Yeah, I mean, it depends on which part of the process. There's so many different parts of View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

2021
Book

The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees,... View Details

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23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

international business trends until more of its governments set the stage for a fairly competitive environment. "There is a need to create a new class of politicians," Gomes said. Africa needs... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

recommended) being attentive to the changes in the external environment communicating with middle managers and leading by example, motivating employees to speak, listening to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2022
HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

plants, laying off employees, and selling assets and real estate. Ultimately, Nestlé chose a middle ground. The company announced on March 23 it would halt the “vast majority”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

April 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Case

The U.S. Shale Revolution: Global Rebalancing?

By: Laura Alfaro and Richard H.K. Vietor

The American shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets for nearly a decade. Prices have risen then plunged, production has surged and then waned, LNG has boomed, and technology and productivity have improved. The U.S. energy policy, under the Obama... View Details

Keywords: Shale Oil; Shale Gas; LNG; Energy Policy; Drilling Technology; Energy; Trade; Economics; Macroeconomics; Policy; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Middle East