Business Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

business models and journalism, to support news organizations, and raise the capital to effect large-scale structural change in the industry, says Hansen Shapiro. Currently a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a... View Details

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman Abstract—Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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correctly. Topics of Interest Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society I am interested in the for-credit version of CORe I... View Details

01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery

through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that information from a business and... View Details

2021
Working Paper

Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer

This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details

Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Redefining Capitalism The loss of public trust in business—and the corresponding rise in government policies and practices that hamper competitiveness and sap economic growth—are rooted in a narrow definition of capitalism whose time has... View Details

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

understanding the link between mental health and economics as we could be,” says Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “And that’s on both sides—both in the way... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

resulting working paper, Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views, was written in collaboration with Michael Yeomans, assistant professor at Imperial College Business School in London; Julia Minson, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

similar results for the setting of executive compensation and financial accounting misconduct. Finally, we outline some managerial and policy implications to blunt these adverse incentive effects. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

procedures, foreign corrupt practices, and virtual currency. The book speaks to “how organizations are actually held criminally accountable,” says co-author Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

Finance can be intimidating, and many business executives don’t even try to get their arms around it. But Harvard Business School Professor Mihir Desai says business leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

foreign firms or in vertically linked industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsLi Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong Harvard Business School Case 407-062 No abstract... View Details