Spending Per Year Of Life Gained - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

campus, the biggest outstanding question I had was how I would spend my summer. After several years of professional overdrive, I had been contemplating the idea View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

footnote on the ninth page of a 49-page presentation. This investment in radial tires for Firestone's North American business was the first of many, and in the subsequent seven View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

there were workers who would have to spend six months to a year. Growing up, I had met so many people who worked hard at risky places in the steel factory with the primary objective of getting themselves and... View Details

January–February 2018
Article

More than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy

By: Dennis Campbell, John Case and Bill Fotsch

Fifty years ago a good blue-collar job was with a large manufacturer such as General Motors or Goodyear. Often unionized, it paid well, offered benefits, and was secure. But manufacturing employment has steadily declined, from about 25% of the U.S. labor force in 1970... View Details

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Employee Ownership; Profit Sharing; Organizational Culture

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29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

spent several years unlocking the power of school ties, studying how these social connections affect important decisions and, ultimately, help shape the economy. Their research shows that it's possible to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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The Softer Side of Business at HBS - MBA

shattered. Here’s what I learned throughout my decision making process and during the past two years at school. 1. The “Soft-Skills” Courses Really Do Exist at HBS! After looking through the school’s course catalogue and reading through... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

effect. Chicago's NPR station asks people to donate by joining their dollar-a-day club. Framed in that manner, the donation seems quite reasonable—about the cost of a cup of coffee. Contrast that with what... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design challenges,” Kominers explains. But the team found that government officials didn’t invest nearly enough. Their study estimates the world is on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

problems, while crystallized intelligence represents a person’s knowledge gained during life by acculturation and learning.” Translation: When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Blog

How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

the office coping with personal challenges, but the other team member could keep the project moving forward. As the pandemic progressed, everyone throughout the LARC stepped up to help colleagues. "The first year View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

through angel groups, and people gaining access through mutual funds, which ordinarily wouldn’t have invested in entrepreneurial companies but are increasingly doing so. At HBS, we’re spending a lot View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

what resonates with online users. Google and Amazon are among a growing list of companies running tens of thousands of tests per year. A growing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

databases are used worldwide to study entry and firm dynamics, but payroll information does not contain ownership structures. As such, they followed a practice used in other settings to focus on the three highest paid employees in the first View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

their study on France, having gained access to two valuable data sets: The first contained the entire debt portfolio for most of the 300 largest French local governments as of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

as soon as possible)—as reasons why "a Government bailout may not be perceived in the same way as a Buffett style investment." Henrique Abreu cited a lesson of the late Milton Friedman that "it is a different thing View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

development. 2:00 PM: One of the best things about HBS is the sheer volume of amazing guests that are brought onto campus. I’m particularly a fan of the values and identity... View Details

Article

The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios

Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details

Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health