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- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an Indian technology firm that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- November 2013
- Case
Choosing Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
By: Robert C. Pozen, Katherine Brooks and Iwan Djanali
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses - Course Catalog
deepen their understanding of the issues facing entrepreneurs who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Course Content and Organization The course is a mix of traditional case-based classes and hands-on consulting View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and arming themselves very quickly. Their intense nationalism is fueled by a deep sense of grievance about their treatment by Western powers over the last several centuries. Our view is that in the evolving competition for power and... View Details
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Novasys Medical (TN)
Teaching Note for 810027. View Details
- March 2010
- Supplement
Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)
By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon
Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, learn the results of their nation-wide effort to rid Kenyan school children of parasitic worm infection. View Details
Ashraf, Nava, Neil Buddy Shah, and Rachel Gordon. "Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 910-027, March 2010.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
of the virus while keeping our economies running. In the absence of a treatment or a vaccine, COVID-19 is likely here to stay. As other countries begin to open up, the policies of South Korea can provide us... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
algorithms dramatically outperformed existing assignment methods—improving on the status quo by up to 50 percent with respect to predicted employment—while the other successfully placed refugees in a balanced way across available host... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
information in online retail. In our experiments, customers are randomly assigned to a treatment condition where virtual fit information is available or to a control condition where virtual fit information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards to be reaped from the development of blockbuster therapies will further drive markets forward.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog The Arts of Communication Course Number 7515 HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Candace Bertotti Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 14 2-hour sessions Career Focus Exceptionally effective leaders must have the ability to... View Details
- Web
Event Guidelines | About
Event Policies The event owner/host assumes full responsibility for all aspects of the event including: Adhering to all policies, rules, and guidelines Monitoring the actions and behavior of all attendees Ensuring complete payment for all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Health Disorders; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Conflict and Resolution; Bosnia and Hercegovina
Do, Quy-Toan, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-040, November 2009.
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options, including prosecution of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
P. Pisano: It was clear there that there was a huge set of interesting and important management issues going on that were not being addressed elsewhere, and that we were in a good position to address. Public policy issues were being... View Details