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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

By: Debora L. Spar

In this book, Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges... View Details

  • July 1991 (Revised August 2000)
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California PERS (A)

By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch and James O. Sailer
Examines California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the world's fourth largest pension fund. Dale Hanson, CEO of CalPERS, has a problem; how does he use CalPERS' influence as the holder of a small percentage of 1,300 American companies to put pressure on... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Retirement; System; Asset Pricing; Performance Improvement; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Return; California
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  • 3 Dec 2008
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Implications for Japan

By: Michael E. Porter
Dr. Yuji Yamamoto made substantial contributions to this presentation. The author also thanks Jennifer Baron, Senior Researcher, for her valuable assistance. This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care:... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Japan
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  • 09 Sep 2015
  • News

Starting a Business is Easy (for Harvard Business Grads)

  • 06 May 2019
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Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

  • 09 Mar 2018
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Why Is A Harvard Business Professor Is Studying Independent Bookstores?

  • 30 May 2024
  • Video

BiGS Voices from Latin America: An Interview with Gaston Bottazzini

  • 09 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

Students, Alumni, and Colleagues Gather to Discuss Leadership in the Energy Industry

The energy industry has been shaken over the last year as oil prices have dropped from over $110 to below $50, with OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) promising no relief to the supply glut and American producers... View Details
  • February 2001 (Revised January 2002)
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Tracmail

By: Paul W. Marshall, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
Tracmail, an online customer service company based in India, is trying to handle support services (e-mail and chat) for companies worldwide. In its quest to break into global markets, Tracmail is contemplating a joint venture with a U.S. call center. Tracmail is also... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; India; United States
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  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Who's Responsible for Erasing America's Shortage of Skilled Workers?

  • 27 Nov 2013
  • News

Can Garment Factories Become Safer?

  • 06 Aug 2021
  • News

Productivity, balance and the four-day workweek

  • 23 Feb 2021
  • News

Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

  • 06 Mar 2015
  • Video

An Economy Doing Half Its Job - Boston, MA

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Curriculum Curriculum Cases James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution (1787) This case begins with the American Revolution and concludes at the Constitutional Convention. It describes the many... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy-making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Competition; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2015
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Why e-commerce giants must reinvent, and why the human touch is still vital

  • 16 Mar 2013
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The role of government: Let 50 flowers bloom

  • September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
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Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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