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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants arrive throughout decade Cities expand Population grows from 76 to 92 million Rural Free Delivery routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
new chapter on the conduct of industrial governance and American capitalism." - Malcolm S. Salter But the President left the door slightly open for selective intervention when he pledged non-interference "in all but the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
whether they would admit that they used drugs on a job application; a different set of participants acting as prospective employers were asked whom they'd rather hire, someone who admitted using drugs, or someone who chose not to answer.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Intervention Labor Global Events the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
United Way, and Scott Wilson of Volkswagen led the rollout of a program emphasizing five interventions (including “talk, sing, and point”; “count, group, and compare”; and “read and discuss stories”) that positively affect the swiftly... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
increase in generosity attenuates the effect of adverse shocks on employment growth by 7% and on earnings growth by 6%. Their analysis finds that the local fiscal multiplier of unemployment insurance expenditure is approximately 1.9. See... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
changes will play out after this public health emergency is behind us. In the past, companies have used the lessons learned during periods of disruption to improve their standard operating practices. For example, the great recession forced View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
critical job we "hire" employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has become from the progression organizations offer. Participants will leave this "working on material" session (as... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
create a more fulfilling and productive employment experience for all. Business Development in a World That Never Stops Changing Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides Selling and sales management... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
for any teaching apprenticeship—and use that to build out real-time data analytics for states, so that they can see, "If we've identified we still have these gaps in the labor market, what interventions should we put in place?" And then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Humans, it seems, are wired for immediate gratification, while “a lot of the things that make us happiest require time and effort,” Norton says. Understanding this disconnect and interventions that could change it can make people—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action,” with 28 other researchers. "Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve conditions for employees." The havoc the virus has wreaked on businesses worldwide... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those arguing for some kind of intervention in this market activity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
effort into a commercial website and app. "They realized that some of the interventions they identified were useful to people, but there was no real mechanism to have them be utilized," says Norton, who along with John wrote a recent HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Organizations, and Markets and Organizational Behavior Units at HBS. Jamillah Williams Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown As a sociologist and legal scholar, Williams investigates the effectiveness of various legal, policy, and organizational View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an "evaluation nudge"—an View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish