Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310055-PDF-ENG Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (B) Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany ObenchainHarvard Business School Supplement 310-056 Having taken steps to shore up investor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these banks retain their individual... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

corporate sector is starting to wake up to the opportunity, but there is still much to be done. Perceptions are slow to change. Many business people still view inner cities as areas where there are no businesses, no workers to hold jobs,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

policymakers avoid a repeat of that painful episode. Greenwood, Hanson, and colleagues have identified the signs that potentially signal trouble. Three years of rapid growth in credit and asset prices increased the odds of a crisis to 40... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

governments to fight the downturn. "It seems likely that economic historians will look back at the years since 2007 as a grand natural experiment for assessing the effectiveness of alternative macroeconomic responses to a financial... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

Summing Up Do increases in social sector productivity, which seem to prevail at least in the U.S., benefit consumers at the expense of workers? Or is the scale weighted in favor of the latter who may benefit two ways, in terms of both an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

the nonprofit sector. To expect 20 to 30 percent is asking too much. Maybe we could pump the percentage up to 7 to 10 percent. But at the end of the day, even counting graduates from other business schools, if you produce 2,000 to 3,000... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

Speed Trap, was poised for publication as I came up for promotion that year at Harvard Business School. However, in a reversal of the familiar prescription for scholars, my mentors told me, “If you publish,... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

for a primary care visit, about 20% of revenues, up to $215 for an inpatient surgical procedure. The high costs were not caused by wasteful, inefficient processes, duplicate or redundant tasks, or the inappropriate use of high-wage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with control sites. In contrast to the take View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

officers are particularly helpful in identifying creditworthy minority borrowers with atypical application profiles.” “There are lots of people who are creditworthy borrowers, but don't have W-2s. And if you don't have a W-2, it's going to be extra work to document... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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