Body of Literature - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

Enforcement Authors:Lucy White and Mark Williams Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

center of economic development can be held up as a possible antidote to macroeconomic stagnation. That's why a recent article by Charles Kenny caught my eye. Kenny, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and the New America... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography... View Details

05 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

Meet Rebekah Emanuel – she’s the senior advisor for social impact at the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab). A McKinsey alum and HBS grad, Rebekah served as executive director of Imagine Boston, the first long-term plan for the City View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

connection to your heritage until the oldest person in your family passes away. In that sense, my grandmother’s death last September, at the age of 92, was a turning point for me. I had already lost my father; right before lockdown, I was... View Details

Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

analyzed the data (at the level of the respondent, the unit, or the hospital), where a higher percentage of the problems were assigned to a senior leader for action, there was a greater improvement in safety... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

so on. But analytics don’t tell you about desire or how a young player might develop in terms of skills or body type over two or three years. That’s human judgment.” To illustrate his point, Baer talks about... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Student-Profile

Sarah Wolfolds

When I was a senior in college, I planned to attend a PhD program in Economics to study industrial organization and potentially labor economics. I had always been interested in Economics and was intrigued by the influence of the... View Details

Profile

Creighton Taylor

about general management and how business works all around the world.” Driven by his curiosity, he decided to pursue an MBA. International business, “Gangnam style” For a global perspective, Creighton realized, “HBS is the best: forty percent View Details

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

response, it seems even more difficult to justify federal spending than otherwise. Q: What do you think your research has brought to the literature? A: The literature has had difficulty empirically identifying the effect View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
News

Batteries Included

airplanes. But maritime shipping has begun—slowly—to consider alternatives to fossil fuels. The body in charge of decarbonization in maritime shipping, the UN’s International Maritime Organization, has set a... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; Transportation

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Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS | MBA

in Fall 2022, 10% of our student body – those with the greatest financial need – will receive full-tuition scholarships. At the same time, HBS will offer new scholarships to students from middle income... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

national and international art school. While in 1978 75 percent of the student body hailed from the Baltimore area, today 80 percent come from 45 states and 38 foreign countries, with only 20 percent from... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

structures of large manufacturing corporations remains important, but a new generation of researchers has explored business networks, the family firm, knowledge creation and transfer, public policy and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

intellectual property, developing clinical budgets and timelines, using these tools to develop a business model and resource the venture, exploring the process of building a syndicate and establishing a board View Details

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

In a more general context, these concepts became "people, opportunity, context, and deal." That turns out to be a powerful way of thinking about things. With this body View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

sector of the world economy." Goldberg notes that MBA students who took Agribusiness Management, an elective he taught for decades, often made significant contributions to the body View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Dec 2002
News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

international student body — 33 percent of the MBA Class of 2003 — that our course materials are drawn from diverse country environments that illustrate cross-border and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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