Request For Proposal - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2019
HBS Seminar

Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the Canal Zone to Panama, with far-reaching implications for Panamanian economic development and U.S. relations with Latin America. Goethals mobilized a strong lobbying effort to kill the proposal to give... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

08 Aug 2005
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Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

completed to a high standard, all code and results are the responsibility of the researcher. In addition to conducting a final review of the code and/or results, the researcher will be responsible for long term storage and managing any... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

amounts are designed to bridge the gap between the recipient’s salary and $130,000 USD, with a maximum award of up to $50,000 USD per year. For example, if recipient’s salary is $95,000 USD, the GO Fellowship may be up to $35,000 USD. MBA... View Details

26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

leaders must clearly articulate what it is they stand for and then take decisive actions around those beliefs. Not just when it’s easy or convenient, but even when it’s difficult. In my new book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Requirements By: Peter Sands, Gordon Liao & Yueran Ma DEC 2016 | BFFS WP #006 In a BFFS working paper, Sands, Ma, and Liao assess the latest Basel Committee proposals for reform on operational risk capital.... View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

case for taxation. "Democracy has long been for sale; in fact, bought and paid for taxes have to be properly extracted and redistributed." Others suggested how this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global

consent if the Center requests such consent from time to time for particular processing activities. The Center does not share personal data of alumni with third parties except as may be required by... View Details

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Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

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Required) Web Conference (login required) Online Request Forms Research Software New Project Space Project Space Change New MariaDB Account Research Computing Grid Account Sign up for our Newsletter Regular... View Details

10 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

Suddenly, the minimum wage debate is on high boil. Perhaps spurred by growing concern over wealth inequality, minimum wage proposals are heating heat up in cities from Chicago to Albany, and in states from South Carolina to Florida.... View Details

Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to... View Details

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The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as an... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Economic Systems; Culture

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Donor-Advised Fund - Alumni

Giving Donor-Advised Fund Giving Donor-Advised Fund You can simplify your charitable giving by establishing a donor-advised fund at Harvard. This philanthropic vehicle enables you to qualify for an immediate tax deduction and then make... View Details

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