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Social Sciences

The Workforce: Thomas A. Kochan

“All the other things we used to think about as a social contract…” Thomas A. Kochan, Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
8.17.12

Compensation Practices and Incentives: Mihir A. Desai

“The first step is popping the myth that we can use financial markets naively to measure performance over short horizons…” Mihir A. Desai, Mizuho Financial Group professor of finance and professor of law, and HBS’s senior associate dean for planning and university affairs
8.17.12

Manufacturing: Willy C. Shih

“There was no way for us to get to market in the U.S.” Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice, HBS’s technology and operations management unit
8.17.12

The China Trade

An exhibition from Harvard Business School’s historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.
8.17.12

Pottery Predates Agriculture

Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.
6.29.12

Thinking Outside the Pack

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
6.15.12

Why Nations Fail

James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.
6.15.12