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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

choice without government interference. If elected, I will do everything possible to guarantee that there will be no real reduction in Social Security or Medicare spending. If elected, I will do everything possible to protect our natural View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 29 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

sustainability? For prospective students interested in this space, know that there are many resources to support you in learning about the challenges and opportunities that exist. From the Business & Environment Initiative to student... View Details
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

people and to building a welcoming environment for generations of business leaders from around the world.” HBS Dean Nitin Nohria said, “The Chao family is the embodiment of the American dream, and we are humbled by their generosity.” Chao... View Details
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Klarman Hall | About

collaborative environment of mutual respect, and a style of value investing that “requires deep reservoirs of patience and discipline.” He is the author of the classic 1991 investment book, Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2022
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces 2022-2023 Kaplan Fellows

  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Alumni Conferences Held In May 2023, External Relations (ER) and the Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) hosted Accelerating Climate Solutions, a conference focused on the role of business in driving solutions to the climate... View Details

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

    In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    (9) Nationality (2) Natural Disasters (4) Natural Environment (204) Negotiation Deal (1) Negotiation Offer (1) Negotiation Participants (1) Negotiation Preparation (3) Negotiation Process (4) Negotiation Style (4) Negotiation Tactics (15)... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

    By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
    A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details
    Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment
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    • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
    Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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    • Profile

    Thomaz Galvao

    public and private resources. Ultimately, our training model may be online, in-person, or a hybrid of the two. We hope to understand how to customize the idea for own country.” If the testing is successful, Thomaz would like to pursue the venture (currently unnamed)... View Details
    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Governing the Family-Run Business

    of family enterprise generates a mixture of business, family and ownership concerns that can make these systems emotionally charged environments for planning and problem solving. In these systems individuals must manage issues within and... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Action Plan: In Context

    Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details
    Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

    Preference for Established Structure. Measures preference for operating in more established and structured business environments rather than a preference for building new ventures where the structure must adapt to an uncertain and rapidly... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
    • 20 Nov 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: November 20, 2007

      Working PapersNone this week   PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... View Details
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The concept of microeconomic competitiveness based on the frameworks developed by Michael Porter since 1990 are popular with policy makers interested in improving the attractiveness and economic performance of their countries and regions. This concept also has many... View Details
    Keywords: Microeconomics; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition
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    • May 2018
    • Article

    The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness

    By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley and Michael I. Norton
    Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two primary findings. First, only at high levels of wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these... View Details
    Keywords: Income; Well-being; Happiness; Wealth; Money; Attitudes; Situation or Environment
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