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    Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

    Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

    When Katherine Coffman presents her research findings about how gender stereotypes shape the behavior of men and women in the workplace, she is often asked: What about... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    Overview

    The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;... View Details
    Keywords: Management Accounting; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Healthcare Industry; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India
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    Outreach Events - Doctoral

    20-21, 2025 - PhD Project Annual Conference. Application deadline is January 31, 2025. Apply here. Tour the Campus Tour the Campus Life at Harvard Life at Harvard ADMISSIONS Your journey starts now. Join a... View Details
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science. “ Bringing life science... View Details
    • October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

    By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
    "For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details
    Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation
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    • April 2024
    • Article

    Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM

    By: Ryan Dew, Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman
    Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines—which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal... View Details
    Keywords: Ride-sharing; Routine; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Segmentation
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    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    "compensation provisions"), one side can help the other, and vice versa, via a number of devices, alone or in combination. These include a) shaping the form of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    milestone, the MENA Research Center unveils a video series aimed at shining a spotlight on the significant diversity of enterprises in our region and the important role played... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
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    Case Development - Faculty & Research

    the School is shaping business learning and educating future leaders in a positive way for years to come. What is a case study? The HBS case study is a teaching vehicle that... View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    across 13 countries. All four brothers remained on the board, actively shaping the company’s strategic direction. They credited much of their success to View Details
    • September–October 2015
    • Article

    Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

    By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer
    Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Experiments; Clustering; Problem Solving; Exploration And Exploitation; Knowledge; Search; Collaboration; Collaboration Structures; Transparency; Communication; Communication Technology; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry
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    • 2021
    • Article

    Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

    By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
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    Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

    body shape of men. Women also have a greater risk for adverse side effects from medications. This is because women are underrepresented in clinical trials (it wasn’t even until 1986 that women were allowed to participate in clinical... View Details
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    Technology Adoption

    How large are cross-country differences in technology adoption? How important are they to explain the large observed cross-country differences in per capita income? What factors accelerate of slowdown the adoption of technology? What factors affect the shape of the... View Details

    • 05 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

    workplaces recognize this fact and create a psychologically safe space for people to speak up about failures, she says. In her book, Edmondson introduces Jen Heemstra, a chemistry professor at Emory University who was profoundly shaped by... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 11 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 11

    mid-2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-010 Faber-Castell By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Mia Raynard