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- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
marketing plan that sought to minimize or eliminate risk. As it happened, though, Quaker's very risk aversion turned out to be the greatest risk of all. ... When Brand And Management Clash One of the most striking things about my... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
of their biggest insights was how difficult it was to reach up across their bodies to reach the seatbelt," says Norton. "Until you are actually in the car in that situation, it would never occur to you." By donning the suits, designers essentially View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
sorting work into departments, product divisions, and regions. Trouble is, managers in hierarchical organizations don't promote or reward risk and innovation—they rely on routine, and turn to the same trusted people to run key... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account of emotional information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- 2022
- Book
L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur. Plon, 2022, French ed.
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
something that the academics don’t? Of course, the “soft side” of the organization isn’t so soft. Its culture is one of the important drivers of employee engagement and loyalty that in turn influences the customer engagement and loyalty... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
Autumn has sprung, and the cold, dreary days of winter are around the corner. But take heart, wistful sun lovers. It turns out that lousy weather is actually good for business operations. A new research paper reports that a decrease in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
leadership, Goldman Sachs Japan became the top-ranked practice in Asia and was involved in seven of the region’s eleven largest mergers. “It was an enormously challenging assignment,” admits Schwartz. “I got to turn around a business that... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
over $4 trillion under management and maintains a sharp focus on low client costs for its 25 million investors. In 2008, at the age of 54, Brennan turned the company over to his handpicked successor, Bill McNabb. “Jack surprised us,” says... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
decision-making. That investment will in turn facilitate increased understanding about the potential applications and value of such tools both in marketing and in business more broadly, she says. “I think the potential of the model is way... View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
Financial Aid office), I discovered different resources and opportunities that I could turn to in order to make this impossible dream a reality. The Forward Fellowship was designed for students like me with extenuating family... View Details
- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
startup. Getting turned down in every one of the first 20 meetings with VCs. Listening to these stories helped me realize that the people that started these companies, even the enormously successful ones, were not that different from me.... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
natives. The paper then turns to immigration's impact for the public finances of host countries. The final section considers emerging topics in the study of immigration. The survey particularly emphasizes the recent experiences of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
working alongside one of the companies they are incubating. Over the next year, FJ will help me hone my entrepreneurial ideas and help turn them into a real company. At HBS, the classes and cases are only one part of the student... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
with ambitious net zero commitments. BCG's climate & sustainability team helps clients turn these pledges into action -helping them identify and harness climate innovation, embed sustainability at scale into their business, and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
of books and articles published about M&A, no one has ever tried to link strategic intent to the implications for integration that result.— HBS Professor Joseph Bower I will turn now to the problems that arise in different types of... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower