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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors...
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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with...
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Innovation;
Hackathon;
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Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management
Lifshitz - Assaf, Hila, Sarah Lebovitz, and Lior Zalmanson. "The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 1–6.
- June, 2023
- Article
Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change
By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana
There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that...
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Kimsey, Marissa, Thijs Geradts, and Julie Battilana. "Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change." Special Issue on Corporate Purpose. Strategy Science 8, no. 2 (June, 2023): 311–321.
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Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors Course Number 2010 Professor Lynn Paine Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits28 SessionsExam Who should take the course? This course should be of View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
professional day writing, with the rest devoted to business and charitable pursuits. In addition to his other books, Barron's abiding interest in the outdoors has resulted in two nature books, one about the history View Details
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Thomas Frick
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
region, because it is known to have a concentration of investors interested in consumer products and goods (CPG). The HBS Association of Southern California helped them prepare...
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Margie Kelley
- 2022
- Working Paper
Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest
By: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr and Jesse M. Shapiro
We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the...
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Political Protests;
Modeling And Analysis;
Government and Politics;
Conflict and Resolution
Andirin, Veli, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30167, June 2022.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
transit capacity effectively is good for workers and good for business, as HBS colleague Michael Porter points out in Clusters and the New Economics of Competition. Hong Kong, New York, Santiago, and Singapore are all illustrations View Details
- winter 1988
- Article
Management Buyouts and Managerial Efforts
By: Robert F. Bruner and Lynn S. Paine
Management buyouts, which have played an important role in the recent wave of corporate restructurings, have been criticized from several directions. This article addresses the problems created by management's conflict of interest. As members of the buyout team,...
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Bruner, Robert F., and Lynn S. Paine. "Management Buyouts and Managerial Efforts." California Management Review 30, no. 2 (winter 1988): 89–106.
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
implementation is now under a review initiated by the White House. The regulation requires financial advisors who handle retirement investments to operate in the best interests of their clients. Proponents...
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
that body of knowledge was derived primarily from companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. But as emerging markets in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America continue to grow, so does an View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
Harvard Business School. “My sense from teaching many years is that this was a very interesting issue for executives because companies often don’t get it right.” A watch connoisseur himself, Thomke had been aware View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
“There is actually a lot of heterogeneity with the actions that executives take. For me that was very surprising.” Pérez Cavazos, part of the Accounting and Management Unit, initially doubted his colleague...
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by Roberta Holland
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
an algorithm to estimate the quality of life in the neighborhood on a ongoing basis and see how that quality changes over time,” says Luca. “This can be especially valuable for cities that have detailed survey data coming in every few...
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- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that...
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by Danielle Kost
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason,...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
prompted a greater demand for food testing in order to verify the authenticity of the claims. Increasing consumer consciousness about food safety and healthfulness: Consumers have high expectations about the safety View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
HBS College Programs Information Session at the University of Michigan
Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred...
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