Publications

Educators

Julia Austin is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship where she currently teaches Startup Operations. Julia is also a certified Executive Coach, board member, startup advisor and angel investor... View Details

2012
Chapter

Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas

What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details

Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

the top by watching numbers and holding managers and leaders accountable. But as the researchers note, there is only so much that firms can do to improve underrepresentation before they hit up against... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

22 Aug 2020
News

Review of Joseph Badaracco’s Step Back: This pandemic is the perfect time to reflect on your career

December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Exercise

Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Leader of the Student Revolutionary Front (SRF): General Instructions and Confidential Information

Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details

Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador

2001
Case

Encylopedia Britannica (A)

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Praveen Kopalle

Two Scotsmen, Colin Macfarquhar, a printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, formed a partnership in 1768 to publish a "Dictionary of Arts and Sciences." The initial three-volume set was published as Encyclopedia Britannica. By 1990, consumers were purchasing the volumes... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Software; Books; Information Publishing; Publishing Industry

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Press, 2007), and a recent op-ed in the Financial Times, "The World Bank Must Fix its Business Model," Ebrahim has focused his research and teaching on the challenges of accountability,... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

December 2015
Article

On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends

By: Maurice H. Yearwood, Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner and Aleksandr Spectre

Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we propose social class plays a key role in determining... View Details

Keywords: Friendships; Social Class; Internationalism; Wealth; Relationships; Globalization

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October 2024
Article

Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial

By: Margae Knox, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown, Jennifer Ahern, Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo and Amanda L. Brewster

The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly improved Covid-19 vaccine uptake in a population of Medicaid beneficiaries... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Medical Specialties; Programs; Human Needs; Welfare; Health Industry; California

Article

Social Dimension of Consumer Distinctiveness: The Influence of Social Status on Group Identity and Advertising Persuasion

By: Sonya Grier and Rohit Deshpandé

Keywords: Society; Customers; Groups and Teams; Identity; Advertising; Status and Position

August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
Case

George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying

This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States

Educators

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: education industry; wine

Forthcoming
Article

On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity

By: Anke Becker

This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details

Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture

April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb

The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details

Educators

Video

Melek El Nimer

Melek El Nimer, founder of the Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon, outlines how she developed educational programs and scholarships for Palestinian refugees. View Details

March 2012
Article

How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth--Until Now

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

Societies that are better at utilizing tools are likely to be more productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Wealth; Development Economics; Performance Productivity; Competitive Advantage