Systems Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic diffusion of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Sharon Liszanckie

forecasts, highlighting the huge, and NECESSARY, role they must play to improve inequality. I hope to learn, from for-profit examples, how organizations resistant to systemic changes are led to embrace these... View Details

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

other factor for the great influence it has enjoyed in American society—have changed significantly from the era when the earliest schools were founded up until the present day. Thus the institution that came to be the major influence on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2021
News

Stress Test

you can learn a lot from those examples. What lessons can we take from the myriad supply-chain challenges of 2020? The resilience-versus-cost trade-off is going to be heavily scrutinized. A resilient supply chain has redundant systems but... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

economy, a large share of exports and foreign direct investment [FDI]. But when you look at the trajectory over time—job growth rates, wage growth rates, changes in export or FDI share, particularly compared to emerging economies—the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the court found... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity

progress, we will count on every member of the HBS community to hold each other accountable and, indeed, to contribute to advancing racial equity. Each individual must change, and collectively, we must change our culture. Racial inequity,... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

against him. The chief executive understood what this meant. “You think I don’t know I am going to be beaten,” he remarked to a visitor in late summer, “but I do, and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten.” If McClellan was... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

usual reasons have become clichés: Disruptive technologies, emerging global competitors, changing workforce expectations, and heightened investor concerns over immediate stock price have put pressure on boards to find reassuring,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

thought of before. It's one thing to say, "You need to change your system of cooking." Perhaps you could solve it better by saying, "There's a much more efficient way for you to cure your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

September 2008
Article

Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann

This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details

Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States

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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog

Belgium. The Netherlands is a global leader in horticulture and food system sustainability. While it only has 5% of the population of the U.S., it is the second largest food exporter in the world, trailing only the U.S. It is recognized... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Alumni Books

Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Professor Ramanna explores the political processes determining our system of accounting rules by which corporate profits are reliably measured. He shows how some corporate interests, to increase profits, have been manipulating the... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. The goal of the event was simple: to get financing. "This is about money changing hands," Harvard Business School professor Myra M. Hart, forum co-chair, told the audience.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

rely on dirty or dangerous energy sources like kerosene lamps and diesel generators. The Soccket is not unlike Matthews herself: a bundle of energy using play to change the world. Creating things seems to come naturally to Matthews, who... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2004
News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details

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