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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
how a truly free market will work as there are no truly free markets today Perhaps a proper study on how big money rigs and biases things in its own favour should be first carried out before deciding how this can be remedied." Ken... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
year-over-year decrease in the Gini Coefficient (increasing equality) is strongly (and linearly) associated with an increase in household income." Steve Scheinkopf agreed, saying "I used to be an Ayn Rand capitalist, but... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
corporation to do? HBS professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan and HBS research associate Arthur McCaffrey propose a framework for an "ethic of engagement," that embraces standards for global investment that respect poor... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
for clusters” Pisano and Buciuni looked to four industrial clusters in northeastern Italy for their answer. Italy "is a great laboratory because it's been historically organized around these very specific districts all over the country. Every area is View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
via e-mail with Executive Director Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87), and Research Associate Anders Sjöman. The School's five centers are charged with supporting the research needs of faculty and developing case View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
study by Richard Ruback , Robin Greenwood , and colleagues tells the company's story. At Lucky Ones Coffee, a small coffee shop tucked inside the public library in Park City, Utah, loyal customers regularly purchase coffee, tea, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
opportunity and assuming a high degree of social responsibility.” Cohen began his own journey down this road in 2000 when the British government asked him to chair a task force to study ways to boost the economic prospects of the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
leadership of Senior Associate Dean John Quelch. Very early on in the planning stage, John and his team decided we should concentrate our energies on the challenges facing business and society in the century ahead, and research... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Fortune 500 companies, and studied the nonprofit involvement of executives in twelve companies. He found that 81 percent of the Harvard MBAs were volunteering and that 57 percent of the surveyed graduates were active board members. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
still have a ways to go," added Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Culture and Community. The conference, held from February 27 to March 1, is one of a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
For thirteen weeks last year, Kelli Socarras got a taste of life as an HBS student. She read two case studies each week, debated management solutions in class, and learned from top executives in a wide range of industries. She... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where Professor Cornel... View Details