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  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Video

2021 HBS New Venture Competition Finale Show

  • 2013
  • Book

Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain

By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons
From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Political Elections; United States; Europe
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  • November 2010
  • Case

Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

    Michael W. Toffel

    Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

    • 02 Feb 2012
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty Lead Immersion Trip to Israel

    • Research Summary

    Business Leadership Coalitions

    By: James E. Austin
    This multiyear research project has been studying the creation and functioning of the organizations business leaders have created in order to mobilize their collective capabilities to address significant issues and problems facing them and their communities. These... View Details
    • 2019
    • Book

    Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

    By: Arthur C. Brooks
    To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

    Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
    Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States
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    • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    The New York Times Co.

    The Sulzberger family owns 20% of the New York Times Co. (NYT) but controls 70% of the board through a dual-class share structure. At the company's April 2006 annual shareholder meeting, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28% of... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 12 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Accounting Information as Political Currency

    potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 03 Dec 2012
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: Against the Grain

    many people. “There is a central tension in the case between the student feeling at once helpless against a corrupt system and surprisingly powerful given his novitiate status.” The case, Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania, was written View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
    • 05 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

    the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the equity markets since the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler
    • 03 Mar 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

    on the books of a company, Zulu Inc., being considered for acquisition. It comes to the attention of the acquirer that for some years Zulu has employed the same accounting firm. Directors at Acme, concerned about having their accountant review the working papers... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services
    • 17 Dec 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

    the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter Palandjian (HBS MBA '93), chairman and CEO of... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
    • 01 Jun 2017
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)

    I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up—even when I left HBS—so the new small business consulting arm of Arthur Andersen seemed like a good place to find out. I was kind of miserable there. But after about a year and a half, I... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
    • 02 Feb 2012
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty Lead Immersion Trip to Israel

    • 21 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

    and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their mental health, according to a study... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
    • 08 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Return of the Salesman

    devoted much attention to the subject of selling and marketing, but relatively little to salespeople until the 1990s. Why the initial neglect? What rekindled renewed interest in the peddler? A: It's as if Arthur Miller's Death of a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 2010
    • Book

    Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

    By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
    Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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      Tatiana Sandino

      Tatiana Sandino is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, most recently teaching and undertaking the role of course head for the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. She has... View Details

      Keywords: retailing; service industry