Prosperity - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni donations, and TV contracts. Chung is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

integration. It is time, therefore, for Europe to revisit the ideals of peace, democracy, unity, and prosperity that defined the origin of the European project and its attempts to unify Europe politically and economically. Greece is... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

advise entrepreneurs not to ignore some of the old rules of doing business. "Companies still have to build competitive advantage and concentrate on efficient processes and quality products," they note. But by also mastering the new techniques of judo strategy, firms... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

it can survive and prosper in the coming market correction. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807006 Centre Partners—American Seafoods 2003 Harvard Business School Case 207-077 Centre... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

political ideology that is xenophobic and isolationist; and the splitting of Americans into antagonistic ideological camps instead of finding common ground upon which to build. What's needed, she continues, is an agenda built on core American principles that Widens... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

optimistic though: I believe that Greeks will soon realize, after initial disappointment once again at the failed promises of a new government, that democracy, an institution born in Greece, is compatible only with competition, meritocracy, and individual... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

policies that encourage the provision of venture capital? Or is the world really flat? Do the "techno-nationalists" have it right? What do you think? To read more: Amar Bhidé, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

articulation of a secular basis for social organization, rooted in commerce, and their insistence that political economy trumped theology as the underpinning for peace and prosperity within and among nations. I argue that the Italian... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They've discovered through hard experience that prospering in the... View Details