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- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of happiness View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Foundation Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who coauthored the case, Pho Hoa Dorchester, with 2017 MBA students Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu. Pho Hoa and Pho Linh, a smaller restaurant located in Quincy, Massachusetts, are owned as...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
There's more in that glass than meets the eye—or the palate. According to Michael Roberto, important strategic differences have bubbled up between winemakers in Europe and those in the "New World"—the U.S., Australia, South...
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- June 10, 2022
- Book Review
What the Research Really Says about American Immigration, Book review of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
By: Michael Luca
Luca, Michael. "What the Research Really Says about American Immigration, Book review of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan." Washington Post (June 10, 2022).
- 21 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
- 17 Dec 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
- 13 Apr 2020
- News
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Study finds online ratings vulnerable to bias
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
With many companies battered by the economy, commitment from leaders and employees might seem like increasingly precious resources. Yet commitment and performance are essential elements of any successful firm no matter the health of the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Competitiveness: Paths Forward," an HBS initiative, was an appearance by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who was brought in by wheelchair but rose to his feet to speak about how the city could be a model...
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by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 29 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
- 23 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
- 25 Jan 2020
- News
HBS Online Will Keep Changing the Game. Here’s How
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
HBS professor Michael A. Roberto and Senior Researcher Lynne C. Levesque decided to look deeper into why some initiatives fail and others succeed. How do some change initiatives take hold and almost become part of the firm's very DNA? To...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Universal Desire for More Equal Pay" by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton, copyright 2014, Perspectives on Psychological Science "Executive Paywatch: High-paid CEOs and the Low-Wage Economy,"...
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- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
their ability to reach if not surpass the goals, start banking on the extra money. In practice, however, the process of connecting pay to performance may be far trickier that it at first appears, according to HBS professor Michael Beer....
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
Video directed and produced by Joanie Tobin In their book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to...
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by Carmen Nobel