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  • Research Summary

The Design of Mechanisms and Institutions

Professor Coughlan's research also investigates the design of public policy and collective choice institutions. His research publications have applied game theory, mechanism design, and laboratory experiments to explore incentives and outcomes under alternative legal,... View Details

    Alison Wood Brooks

    Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

    • 21 Oct 2016
    • News

    The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable

    • February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

    By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort
    In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details
    Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States
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    Overview

    Ryann has extensive teaching experience in varied instructional settings. She was appointed the Qualitative Advisor for the Harvard University Sociology Department senior thesis writers in 2015-2016, and supervised two senior thesis writers in prior years. She served... View Details
    • 21 Nov 2014
    • News

    Pension Funds Lambaste Private-Equity Fees

    • 18 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

    within their own ranks. “What you really do need is knowledge of that specific industry, whether it's pharmaceutical or manufacturing or hospitality or rocket science.” The findings suggest an active market for CEOs, who are lured to PE-owned companies by higher... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
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    Cross-Sector Partnering

    By: James E. Austin
    This on-going research project is examining the motivations, dynamics, and effectiveness determinants of partnering between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government entities. The first major output of the research focusing on nonprofits and businesses was... View Details
    • 09 Jun 2022
    • News

    The Case for Mindful Cursing

      Dominic Russel

      Dominic Russel is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. His current research interests are in financial economics, public economics, and the economics of social networks. He has previously worked as a financial analyst at the Consumer Financial... View Details
      • January 2014
      • Article

      Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations

      By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons
      Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Performance Productivity; Education Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
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      • 23 Jan 2024
      • Video

      Harvard Dialogues: Leading When It’s Difficult

      • Article

      Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
      Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research
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        Dante Roscini

        Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

        • 2017
        • Working Paper

        Elite Ideas and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India

        By: Akshay Mangla
        This paper analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state elites... View Details
        Keywords: India; Political Economy; Ideas; Institutional Change; Education; Change Management; India
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          Derek C. M. van Bever

          Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

          • Spring 2024
          • Article

          One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher Education Sector

          By: Tarun Khanna
          Several recent encouraging experiments in Indian higher education suggest a plausible aspirational path toward a more salubrious future than that suggested by an otherwise struggling system. Four case studies of privately conceived and funded universities each exhibit... View Details
          Keywords: Higher Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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            Forest L. Reinhardt

            Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

            Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

            Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation

              Mihir A. Desai

              Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

                Andre F. Perold

                André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

                Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services