Informal Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource for conservation. We propose a set of guiding questions for applying behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

sovereign wealth fund—indeed the world's largest institutional investor. But Abu Dhabi is not yet a "developed" economy. So, in 2002, the Mubadala Development Company was established as a government-owned investment vehicle.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

a manifestation of rekindled social idealism. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an SEI faculty member, has another explanation rooted in the nation’s ongoing leadership crisis in business and government. “If institutions don’t operate... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in the days that followed, the focus of formal and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review, you write, "The current health insurance system in the United States has its share of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2004
News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

employees at every level of the organization," says Makihara, who instituted an open-door policy to make good on what was then a revolutionary idea among Japanese executives. Emphasizing the importance of adopting new technologies, he... View Details

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than $2.00 per day, or that a quarter... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2013
News

The Accidental Innovator

distraction the better—so it’s just my voice-over, informal and without a script. I also try my best to give students deeper intuition rather than just learning things by rote. I can also sometimes be a bit eccentric, which I think the... View Details

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

of understanding of their company's business. They cited two reasons. First, there are too many independent directors in the boardroom, and it takes them too long to figure out what the business is all about. Second, there's a flaw in getting View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business groups, which identify the role of institutional voids, government policies, and contact... View Details