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I am currently working on a series of projects that focus on three questions: (1) how currency fluctuations affect different types of firms across countries; (2) how various macroeconomic policies affect manufacturing growth in developing countries; (3) the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
public outrage and protests, as well as a fair amount of handwringing on the part of politicians. What's less clear is how this rising level of inequality has affected the nation. Researchers have tried to determine its impact on a wide... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- September 2006 (Revised August 2008)
- Module Note
Assessing Your Organization's Capabilities: Resources, Processes and Priorities
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Stephen P. Kaufman
Summarizes a model that helps managers determine what sorts of initiatives an organization is capable and incapable of managing successfully. The factors that affect what an organizational unit can and cannot accomplish can be grouped as resources, processes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mathematical Methods
Christensen, Clayton M., and Stephen P. Kaufman. "Assessing Your Organization's Capabilities: Resources, Processes and Priorities." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-014, September 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- 14 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: China in the Global Economy
Stropki, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.G. Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors CorporationMarjorie Yang, Chairman, The Esquel Group While the global economic downturn will View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby
- November 2008 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
The Fall of Enron
By: Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu
The case traces the rise of Enron, covering the company's business innovations, personnel management, and risk management processes. It then examines the company's dramatic fall including the extension of its trading model into questionable new businesses, the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Management Practices and Processes; Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
Healy, Paul, and Krishna Palepu. "The Fall of Enron." Harvard Business School Case 109-039, November 2008. (Revised November 2024.)
- 08 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy and Global Banking
- September–October 1998
- Article
How to Kill Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes
Amabile, T. M. "How to Kill Creativity." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 5 (September–October 1998): 76–87.
- April 2001
- Exercise
Exchange Rate Exercise
Tests students' understanding of exchange rate analytics and how shifts in exchange rates affect firms' economics. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate
Kennedy, Robert E. "Exchange Rate Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 701-122, April 2001.
- November–December 2019
- Article
Head, Heart or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time?
By: Sebastian Reiche and Tsedal Neeley
To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, we conducted a longitudinal study of a mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The... View Details
Keywords: Language; Communication; Change; Employees; Attitudes; Emotions; Globalized Firms and Management
Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley. "Head, Heart or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time?" Organization Science 30, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 1252–1269.
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
We've heard that Eskimos have 100 words for snow—a common way of expressing how language affects the way we see the world. Whether or not that particular example is true, cultural linguists have long theorized that the words a particular... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- April 5, 2023
- Article
We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID
By: Esther K. Choo and Scott Duke Kominers
With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency. View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scientific Research; Policy; Health Policy; Innovation; Science; Public Finance; Public Health; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital
Choo, Esther K., and Scott Duke Kominers. "We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID." Scientific American (website) (April 5, 2023).
- Working Paper Summaries
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates
- 2020
- Working Paper
How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors
By: George Serafeim
Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation.... View Details
Keywords: Materiality; ESG; Pharmaceutical Companies; Business Ethics; Sustainability; Environment; Disclosure; Disclosure And Access; Regulation; Social Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Resource Allocation; Finance; Accounting; Valuation
Freiberg, David, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim. "How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-056, November 2019. (Revised November 2020.)
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
In his chapter "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity" from the book The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution: Brookings Task Force on the Internet, HBS professor Andrew McAfee, discusses how the Internet has increased... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
for many types of products,” MacKay says. “It might be really important for more complicated products, or products that you purchase less frequently.” Through its ability to affect purchasing decisions, consumer inertia can alter the... View Details
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Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law
By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details
Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.
- December 2014
- Background Note
Note on Agriculture in Argentina
By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
This note describes the history of Argentinian agriculture and how it has been affected by government policies and new technologies. View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Farming; Agriculture; Business And Government; Government Agricultural Policy; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina
Bell, David E., and Mary Shelman. "Note on Agriculture in Argentina." Harvard Business School Background Note 515-069, December 2014.
- 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
- January 1996
- Background Note
Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M. "Creativity and Innovation in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-239, January 1996.