Individual Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

23 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

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HBS - The year in Review

learners they serve while further strengthening their individual positions and managing their growth and long-term success. FY22 was marked by a return to in-person learning. For Executive Education this meant welcoming over 10,000... View Details

17 Jan 2023
In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

US? Congress? It’s possibly the one group of individuals that knows less about AI than I do. Is it conceivable that AI is impossible to regulate in any meaningful way? If so, what are the alternatives, efforts such as more effective... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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RISE Fellowship - MBA

Additional Harvard Funding RISE Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding RISE Fellowship Canadian Fellowship Forward Fellowship Goldsmith Fellowship Junior Achievement Fellowship External Funding Student Loans 101 Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance The... View Details

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

chairmen and one other director. Beneath the two parent companies a large number of operating companies were active in individual countries. They had many names, often reflecting predecessor firms or companies that had been acquired.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

11 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

Or it might be individual but based on controllable factors, such as hard work or persistence—in other words, effort. The researchers conducted an online survey of 200 Americans, presenting them with a fictional story about a planet with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

business leaders recognize that just because an individual makes a mistake does not mean they cannot be valuable within an organization.” Yet as soon as he opened up about his incarceration, the previously jovial meeting with the senior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

21 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 21

Eccles, George Serafeim, and Jorge Amar Publication:Ideia sustentável (June 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.ideiasustentavel.com.br/2012/06/brasil-uma-sociedade-sustentavel/ Working PapersField Evidence on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

cases are thus designed to help students think about what it actually means to make a difference, and what it takes. How do would-be leaders identify the problems or challenges they wish to tackle? What enables them to craft solutions that other View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on... View Details

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FAQs - Doctoral

work authorization if selected. Upon completion of the program, students must return to their home institution to complete their undergraduate degrees. We are unable to sponser participants from institutions outside of the U.S., recent graduates, or graduate students.... View Details

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

firm's pre-acquisition board of directors remain on the board of the combined firm after the merger. This also holds true at the level of individual target directors. An individual target director is more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

of the University of Michigan. The researchers set out to quantify the impact of changes in annual H-1B admission levels from 1995 to 2008, when national caps fluctuated from a low of 65,000 workers a year to a high of 195,000. (The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

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Clubs - Business & Environment

become better stewards of the natural and built environment. Impact Investing Club The Impact Investing Club strives to equip our members with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as successful View Details

22 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

gives open source advocates—some of them are embedded deep in IT departments trying to convince their superiors—ammunition that this stuff is valuable, and leaders should be supporting it in whatever way that means,” explains Nagle. Measuring open source View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

10 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

sheds light on a question vexing economists, consumers, and retailers alike: When will prices return to normal? The answer depends on the type of product, and how quickly each individual industry recovers, says Cavallo. When a product is... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the patient’s condition in this way unlocks major opportunities to improve efficiency and guide reimbursement. For example, cost rates for individuals performing front line tasks can have as much as a ten-fold difference – a phenomenon... View Details

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