The Commons - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

chairperson of Narayana Health; and Rahul Bajaj, the late chairperson of the Bajaj Group. Leadership to Last finds five common characteristics among Indian and other South... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a finite selling season. As common... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

policy that reflects Americans' nuanced, evolving sense of fairness. They are a part of what makes our economy, and our society, work. And that knowledge might even make writing that check on April 15th a bit less painful. This article was originally published on View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

into “a learning community with shared values and common goals." In the classroom, Christensen was a true artist, like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, as he posed... View Details

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

experience balances with the all too common FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) that is quite palpable on campus. While traditionally in society extroverts have received the bulk of... View Details

Blog

Leading Successful Digital Transformation

five key areas: Common vision and strategy: One of the most challenging aspects of digital transformation is knowing where to start. Different stakeholders in the company often... View Details

21 Sep 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

posed by Instagram users and Battilana’s answers: What’s the biggest myth people tend to believe about power dynamics? In my research, I have found strikingly common misconceptions in how people think about... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

motivated, to find meaning at work during this crisis. Research by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

the President of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation and is active with several other non-profits. He is also active in political causes and believes in a “big tent” philosophy that works to find View Details

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Student Research - Doctoral

subset of passion expressions that are more common for extraverts. Indeed, in... 2025 Working Paper Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations By: Simon Essig Aberg High net-worth donors who give through a family... View Details

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

professionals with an existing track record.” New employees relocate to Baltimore, where the firm is based. Investment teams are composed of generalists, not specialists, which maximizes knowledge sharing. View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

Think of famous brands you know: Hallmark cards and Coca-Cola soft drinks, for example. What do these products have in common for consumers? An emotional meaning that taps into thoughts and feelings related to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

help providers and other players in the health care system leverage information technology to help them achieve two key aims: restructuring care delivery and measuring results . Establish common data... View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Each Circle is intentionally formed to have multiple perspectives represented in its discussions. Though they are diverse in many ways, each member will ideally share something in common with another person in their Circle (industry, life... View Details

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Events - Business History

Introduction Marlous van Waijenburg (HBS), Chair Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA), "'Taking Risks Beyond the Bounds of Common Sense'? An Indo-Armenian 'Bill of Exchange' from Isfahan, c. 1730, and Trust Relations... View Details

2020
Chapter

Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective

By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones

This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India

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14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

must decide its values. Identifying these values should be a collaborative, inclusive process at all levels. For example, common organizational values are "we are a people-first business" or "global impact in how people work" or even "do... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

approaches to value creation can be deployed within the context of an overarching strategy. Although many foundations talk about "strategic" giving, much current practice is at odds with strategy. Among the... View Details

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