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Marwan Chaar

not even the energy companies we blame the most. We as a society are responsible for our environmental impact. I hope to change the way people produce and consume energy, starting in the region of the world that is the most wasteful: the... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation levels. That's the conclusion of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

fall 1976
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Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950's

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Society; Telecommunications Industry

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May 20, 2010
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Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies

By: Tsedal Neeley

Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Diversity

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January 2017
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Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Intensity and Dynamics of Civil Conflict

By: Stephen Chaudoin, Zachary Peskowitz and Christopher Stanton

There is a tremendous amount of variation in conflict intensity both across and within civil conflicts. Some conflicts result in huge numbers of battle deaths, while others do not. Conflict intensity is also dynamic. Conflict intensity escalates, deescalates, and... View Details

Keywords: Civil Wars; Political Economy; Conflict; Trade Interdependence; War; Microeconomics

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November – December 1969
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Systems Analysis for Social Decisions

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Decision Making; Society; Theory

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1 Aug 1972
Conference Presentation

Communes, The Family and Sex Roles

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Family and Family Relationships; Gender

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1976
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The Romance of Community: Intentional Communities as Intensive Group Experience

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Groups and Teams; Emotions

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Juan Eyzaguirre

didn’t understand well—civil society is a really, really complex space. That’s why I'm pursuing this joint degree, not only because of my intellectual curiosity, but because I expect to have future involvement in View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Dec 2018
News

What a Difference a Community Can Make

can and should be a force for good. The best business leaders take seriously their responsibility to create sustainable solutions to real-world problems and to help bridge the divides that are so evident in society today. More than... View Details

Keywords: John B. Hess (MBA 1977), Chair, The HBS Campaign

04 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely depressed, and at least one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation

30 Oct 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Nobel Prize: A ‘Heritage-based’ Brand-oriented Network

Keywords: by Mats Urde & Stephen A. Greyser

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

07 Aug 2009
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Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Summing Up Does U.S. health care need more pull or push? There are clear symptoms that something is wrong with U.S. health care. In Edward Hare's words, "It's making us uncompetitive and turning us against each other." In this month's discussion, several of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive insurance premiums, lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare system is dysfunctional, a Rube... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been "zero sum." Behaving as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

2015
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Growth & Shared Prosperity

By: Karen G. Mills

In June 2015, nearly 75 experienced leaders from across business, government, labor, academia, and media gathered at Harvard Business School to discuss a topic of increasing concern in America: How can our nation continue to remain competitive while also providing a... View Details

Keywords: Shared Prosperity; Wealth

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