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- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
messages across these audiences, that's where our true value is." “Rating systems should take into consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work, and engagement with nongovernmental organizations” And yet, in the words of Al Gore, the former US... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
Watch Solara at the 2024 New Venture Competition. 2024 Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite: SeaCycle - Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) - Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. 2024 Tough Technology Prize Winner:... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
obtaining full disclosure, and in general exercising oversight in such relationships. Coase's ideas were thought to be so valuable that they earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. One of the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu about finding joy in the face of suffering and grief. It’s also a glimpse into the friendship, mutual respect, humility, and values of two spiritual leaders and Nobel View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
so as well? What do you think? Or do you need more time? Original Article Behavioral economics has fascinated us at least since Daniel Kahneman became the first psychologist to win the Nobel Prize in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
The Swedish Academy #MeToo Scandal and the Reputation of the Nobel Prize This case focuses on the potential for “reputational contagion” to the Nobel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" - Blog: RGE Report
scholars, the moment is ripe for us to delve into research that illustrates the state of working women today. Harvard’s own Professor Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her lifetime of... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Profile
Arthur Rock
experience of raising money to help these businesses grow. In a serendipitous encounter in 1957, Rock was approached by a group of seven scientists who were working at Shockley Laboratories in Palo Alto. The group had been working under the View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
John Maynard Keynes. The book that made Keynes famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920), is an easy read, a model of concision and argument. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) is much more... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile annual event (the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony), a web... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
the bailout could very well calm the current crisis but also provoke even greater, and even more dangerous, risk-taking in the future.” Innovation Will Continue University Professor Robert Merton, who received the Nobel View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Oxenford says, "Picture a schoolboy in Pata-gonia, in a tiny town with no library. With the Internet, he can get information that fifteen years ago, only a Nobel Prize researcher could access." Education is... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
I think one thing we have learned is to be careful when we try to generalize about the importance of institutions. Since the work of Nobel Prize winning economic historian Douglass North, the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne