Economic Transformation Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or sleeping on friends’ couches. The... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

economics course, the premed student — whose third language is English, after Russian and Armenian — was instantly heading in a new direction. “I just fell in love,” she says. “I did some research on education policy and its impact, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Analytics Program Manager Metadata & Knowledge Systems kgolden@hbs.edu Elliott Hadwin Accessioning Archivist Special Collections & Archives ehadwin@hbs.edu Austin Haley Information Research Specialist Curriculum & Learning Services... View Details

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

might be a more significant issue than formerly considered, as the non-heterosexual population and anti-gay workplace-related sentiment are both larger than previously measured. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51547 forthcoming American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

would in large part be considered as cost of goods sold. These expenses include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in information technology and other functional areas, marketing costs, and residence expenses for executive... View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector experimentation, including... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

still wary of Mexico in the wake of a series of economic crises. In addition, he notes, "We now must compete against Internet companies for capital as e-commerce firms attract investors seeking high returns. But I think as our country... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

inflicted on the city's surviving population. The study calculates that over the next two years, New York City will suffer $30 billion in capital losses, $14 billion in cleanup costs, and $30 billion in lost economic output. The tourism,... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

until at least 10 minutes have passed without a bid. Q: In your study of eBay, how much sniping was going on, and what categories or products were most likely to be sniped? A: In the eBay data we collected for our 2002 American Economics... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

Insights Group, and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of the book What Works: Gender Equality by Design, which discusses how organizations can leverage findings of behavioral... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

short term. To address the root of their problems, they should follow the counsel they would give their clients: Take a step back to reassess. Consulting firms should hone back in on the fundamentals, reset around the core principles of top-management consulting, and... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

Harvard College I often felt like I had my head down. I don’t regret that – I ultimately succeeded academically, winning the Harris Prize for best thesis in Economics and graduating Summa, and got into finance -- but with some savings and... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

and Society, is interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems to meet economic goals. With regard to the interaction of humans with machines, Chen asked: When thinking about social computing, how can we ensure we get the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2002
News

View from the Top

entire companies and the driving force behind the turnaround of the American economy, is suddenly under siege,” the New York Times declared in June. In the months since, the chorus of voices questioning today's business leaders has only increased in volume. In his role... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

York Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Beast, and CNN.com, among others. Through experiences like this in Afghanistan, as well as in Rwanda and Bosnia, Lemmon has become a forceful advocate for the economic and human rights of girls... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

initiative. But what pleases us I think even more is the countless examples of efforts that individuals, teams, and groups have launched on their own. So affinity groups for staff, the THRIVE program in Executive Education, work by an... View Details

07 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?

Greetings from HBS! My name is Siri and I am a second-year student and a candidate for the joint MBA/MPP program between HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Before graduate school, I worked for three years as a management... View Details

July 2024
Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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