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  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Peculiar Politics of American Disaster Policy: How Television Has Changed Federal Relief

By: David Moss
Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in financing disaster losses in the United States. The federal government may thus be thought of as providing an implicit form of public disaster insurance. However, unlike many... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Policy; Government and Politics; Media; Natural Disasters; United States
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making

By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
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  • Portrait Project

Alan Xie

by someone else’s Yellow Peril. I signed my oath of office wielding the collective hopes of a generation of immigrants, forcing us ceaselessly forward into a more inclusive future. Representing my community is my moral imperative. I have... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

Project Implicit, a research nonprofit that collects data about bias. The authors used facial recognition technology to assign a likely race to restaurant reviewers based on their profile pictures. Researchers found that after Yelp... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

company. In December 2020, Bastian announced that Delta would become a charter member of the newly formed OneTen corporate coalition, a group of business leaders from more than 30 large companies who aimed to collectively hire and advance... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

  PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2025
  • Article

The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt (now Undue Medical Debt)... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Outcome or Result; Well-being; Personal Finance
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  • Article

Gender Disparities in Compensation of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey

By: Cherie P. Erkmen, Anastasiia K. Tompkins, Shanda Blackmon, Larry R. Kaiser, Susanna Gallani, Jennifer C. Romano, Thomas MacGillivray and Michael J. Mack
BACKGROUND: Gender-based pay disparity in compensation is widespread. In cardiothoracic surgery, women earn between 71-84% of men’s salaries at comparable ranks. Limited data exist on how factors like subspecialty, practice type, and work efforts contribute to these... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Equality and Inequality; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry
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  • March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Asia; Europe; North America
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  • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

By: Andre F. Perold
In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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  • 29 Nov 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Chris Dellarocas, Boston University

  • 05 Nov 2014
  • HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Web

Contemporary Art | About

Contemporary Art Harvard Business School collects and exhibits contemporary art to create an engaging and stimulating environment for the HBS community and those who visit the campus. Schwartz Art Collection... View Details
  • Web

Research Resources - Doctoral

region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library —one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries—are available at the center of the campus. Harvard Business School Baker Library The View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow collectively moved beyond race in the workplace,” Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

stepping stones; they were experiences that expanded our horizons and offered us tools to navigate the labyrinthine yet exciting landscape of biotechnology. The tapestry of our collective experiences—ranging from startups to multinational... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

"Trust requires reciprocity." Mike Beer suggested that managers succeed by "inviting honest, collective and public conversations," in the process "making themselves vulnerable." Bob Lee added that "Trust... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

manufacturers—because all of a sudden you have a platform that collects these data on willingness to pay.” The impact on profits could be considerable if retailers made fewer items. When they completely ignored rarity as a factor in their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail