State Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2022
Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

rapidly changing world. This program is a collaboration between the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management JUL 27-AUG 2, 2025 | HBS Campus... View Details

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HOW, NOT WHAT It is not what a location competes in that determines its prosperity, but how productively it competes. What Determines Competitiveness? Microeconomics Competitiveness Quality of the Business Environment State of Cluster... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

; United States Citation Purchase Related Wallace, Christina, and Stacy Straaberg. "To Found or to Cofound? That is the Question." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 825-148, June 2025. TagHive: Edtech Pricing and Distributor Decisions... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Recent book: The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey Chair: Organizational Behavior Unit Intrigued by: "Emotional intelligence. Leaders have the emotional capacity to... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

; United States ; Australia ; Canada Citation Educators Purchase Related Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)." Harvard Business School Case 225-082, June 2025. Are ESG Improvements... View Details

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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Nations, regions, states and cities all require clear economic strategies that engage all stakeholders, boost innovation and ultimately improve productivity. Porter on Prosperity “National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not... View Details

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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States

09 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology

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California - Global

United States California – Silicon Valley Established in 1997, the California Research Center (CRC) enriches the intellectual activities of HBS faculty and fortifies the connection between the Boston campus and the West Coast. The... View Details

2012
Working Paper

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States

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June 2016
Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain

There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details

Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that... View Details

22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

"Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the whole of our life." The fourth element is Horizon. The Horizon element is concerned with what we are walking toward in life; there is that in life which pulls us. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Team - Case Method Project

areas of curriculum development and teacher education, and she plays a direct role in providing support for participating teachers. Joanna has worked for Harvard Business School in various administrative capacities since 2008. In her free... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of many local governments that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

things in a few words. General Electric's Jack Welch is a good example. He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey complicated concepts in just a few phrases." Of course, knowing your audience is also essential. "Great communicators have an... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Adaptation (52) Organizational Culture (92) Organizational Design (139) Organizational Structure (16) Organizations (518) Outcome or Result (36) Ownership Type (9) Ownership (51) Partners and Partnerships (7) Patents (22) Perception (26) Performance View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

numerous book, television, and movie deals, along with several marriage proposals, all of which she has turned down. Six months after the accident, Crotty returned to the United States to become an assistant principal at St. Mark's School... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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