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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
billion financial bailout program. see article America’s financial future is more closely intertwined with China’s than most people recognize, argues HBS professor Niall Ferguson in an excerpt from his new book, The Ascent of Money. In a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
corporate tax code (perhaps “the single most powerful step to improve America’s economic trajectory almost immediately”). The authors argue that while all eight issues enjoy some measure of bipartisan support, the gridlock in Washington... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In this, his latest book, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
to create the virtual equivalent of the back-of-store bargain bin. They argue those changes would not only improve retailers’ bottom lines, but, somewhat counterintuitively, could benefit customers as well. “We are taking the know-how and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
and those with the most up-votes rose to the top of a list next to the moderators. Among the most popular questions, which drew a laugh from both the panelists and the audience: How do you compete in a winner-take-all market when you’re not the winner? Panelists mostly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Marriage, Inc.
assertively seeking a mate is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s not cold, Greenwald explained to NPR’s Weekend Edition (September 28, 2003). “It’s effective time management. You are using time-tested, proven tactics from the business world and applying them in the dating... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
at Risk, Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
across complements can offset horizontal competition between substitutes. In this paper, we isolate the offsetting price effects and show how they operate in large (as well as small) clusters. We argue that it is possible in principle for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- News
Catherine E. Kuehn Price, MBA 1986 & Malcolm K. Price, MBA 1987
institution they believe in without compromising their family’s financial security. “Harvard is great at providing vehicles that allow you to achieve your philanthropic goals,” he says. “I also would argue that—in terms of positive... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
evidence that links organizational success or failure to “primal leadership.” They argue that a leader’s emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive. Cultivating Communities of Practice:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
- Portrait Project
Minh Chau
and respect as a given. I didn't say thank you that Sunday. Not to my dad for his help in our Ikea construction. Not to my mom for her miraculous work in the kitchen. Instead, I argued with my mom, and we waved goodbye. I learned the hard... View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
published The Emerging Republican Majority, arguing that suburban growth and the professionalization of the economy would usher in a new age of Republican dominance in politics. It was not to be. The share of people living in the suburbs... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
renew the organization and its products. This new individualized corporation, they observe, requires a fundamentally different management approach that rejects the traditional "organization man" model in which employees are considered undifferentiated cogs in a... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
directors. In order to qualify, shareholders had to have owned at least 3 percent of a firm's shares for at least the prior three years. Still, the announcement drew ire from some business groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the original plans. McKim, Mead & White argued that towers for each dormitory block were critical to the overall design (illustrating their point with an altered photograph in which hand-drawn towers appear on the dormitory units). But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 14 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale
America which seeks to holistically redefine business success by certifying “B Corporations” that commit to meaningfully incorporating social and environmental concerns to their bottom lines. Correa delineates ways to reduce plastic usage in industry from the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
at length about the The Pay Problem posed by executive compensation in a May/June 2010 article in Harvard Magazine. There we argued that evidence of the link between executive compensation and company performance is not clear. We noted,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner