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  • 01 Jan 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

gain admission to the US. He describes the arcane system that puts a limit on the number of H-1B visas issued each year. Demand fluctuates from year to year depending on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

seek work once benefits ended, the authors examined a sample of low-income workers who typically have limited access to credit. Using detailed banking data from Earnin, a financial services company that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

setting good defaults is an example of this. But there are a lot of others as well, such as simplifying the choice environment and eliminating unnecessary complexity. "As a field, we need to learn more about where and when behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

From observers to active participants in the global economy

efforts in Africa in part to the HBS course Written Analysis of Cases. “It combined the need for crisp, cogent analysis, based on the limited evidence available, and coming to... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

hand-holding. You need to be creative with limited resources. That’s why we’re more concerned with finding the right cultural fit than in focusing on skills and backgrounds.” David Meckstroth (HBS MBA 2011),... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading frictions. The "top down" approach to behavioral finance focuses on the measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Markets; Behavioral Finance; Stocks
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  • 18 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

shipping model, according to Ngwe. Ngwe attributes the higher purchase totals to customers overshooting the minimum balance needed to qualify for free shipping, due View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

Trelstad: Hold virtual fundraising events and engage loyal donors Organizations need to think quickly and practically about cash flows and revise their scenarios for getting through the crisis and then a less optimistic 2021 scenario.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best Practices

By: Jason Shafrin, Jaehong Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington and Richard Willke
This study argues that value assessment conducted from a societal perspective should rely on the Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) framework proposed herein. Recently developed value assessment inventoriessuch as the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness’s... View Details
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  • December 2010 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Boston Properties (A)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Aldo Sesia
Investment manager Eliza Baena confronts an apparent convertible bond arbitrage opportunity when she notices a narrowing spread between two Boston Properties (BXP) bonds, one a convertible bond and the other a straight bond, in the wake of the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy.... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Bonds; Investment
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  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

developers and other third parties, which in turn broaden their reach and influence. Wu points to the Apple iPhone as another example of this phenomenon. While Steve Jobs originally intended to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

perfect natural experiment to explore. With the Y2K bubble in the early 2000s, the quota of H1-B visas first increased and then fell sharply, initially expanding and then limiting immigration by skilled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting
  • January 2017
  • Case

Nashua River Capital Management

By: Samuel Hanson and Aldo Sesia
Investment manager Eliza Baena confronts an apparent convertible bond arbitrage opportunity when she notices a narrowing spread between two Boston Properties (BXP) bonds, one a convertible bond and the other a straight bond, in the wake of the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy.... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Bonds; Investment
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  • 29 May 2013
  • Blog Post

“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton

even consulting about it. I want to understand how the whole company moves, and not to limit myself to some of its areas. HBS was therefore my... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
  • February 2011
  • Article

It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties

By: Lara B. Aknin, Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on who the money is spent on? Sociologists have distinguished between strong ties with close friends and family and weak... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Relationships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Donald J. Trump brings business experience to the White House. Source: BasSlabbers Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States, will be the first to go straight from the boardroom View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

prices across channels or locations,” Cavallo says. “So, while retailers currently have the technology to customize prices based on demographics, fairness concerns are limiting their ability View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail