Filter Results:
(1,619)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,619)
- People (1)
- News (517)
- Research (609)
- Events (36)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (197)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,619)
- People (1)
- News (517)
- Research (609)
- Events (36)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (197)
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape public opinion and policies. But as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
the best possible solution to complicated public policy problems,” he says, weighing all the evidence against a gut feeling. Beyond his business acumen, it’s also possible that Mitsotakis inherited a bit of political instinct. The prime... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
awards, including the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and a 2012 Gold Effie. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513032-PDF-ENG Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
placed in the public domain. At the same time, however, you also have universities now moving to a more closed model, whereas in the past universities used to do the open... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
as climate change and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these critical needs are to be met, the major pools of long-term, patient capital—including... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Destruction SCHUMPETER: Ambivalent about Harvard, uneasy about America, he wondered, “Why am I always so out of sympathy with my milieu?” COURTESY HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, HUGB S276.90 In his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
in resource-poor areas of the globe to support public health. In 2008, DFA won both the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Business Plan Contest and the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Endeca Steve Papa, MBA 1999 Endeca’s... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
that people are more likely to select choices that serve the should self (should-choices) when the choices will be implemented in the distant rather than the near future. This 'future lock-in' is demonstrated in five experiments for should-choices involving donation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Radar Networks and Metaweb Technologies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808147 Publications Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation Editors: Edward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and commercial banking authority... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
the Affective Sciences, edited by D. Sander and K. R. Scherer. Oxford University Press, in press No abstract available. The Malleability of Environmentalism Authors:Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Min Li, Leigh L. Thompson, and Max Bazerman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming oil and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
tech world." Much of the time, Hiro’s not here at all. He lives in “a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing on his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
accept a customer, but everyone has the right to save if they want to work to do that," Tufano says. "So let's think about what the characteristics of a universal savings vehicle might be: It's low cost, low risk, portable,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
spread the ideas of Final-Five Voting, scaling a few early innovators into a coast-to-coast campaign of universal adoption and action. Thanks to the upstart laboratories of democracy that have shown us the way (in victory and defeat), we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne