Individual Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

high level of individual accountability, and strong leadership. Unless the tensions created by this paradox are carefully managed, attempts to create an innovative culture will fail. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

make cities in smarter ways, so that they are built more quickly, with less waste and overall impact on the environment during the construction process. Environmental performance will improve in part due to building better buildings. For... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Over time, the media conversation about work-life balance has shifted slightly, Ely said, from discussing women's individual choices to showing "a whole set of experiences that look less like women opting out and more like women... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although these laws account for less than 7 percent of U.S. public funding for education, their mandates strongly influence the activities of schools and school districts.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the people who become ill are insured for just about any... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

two important forms of speaking up. These results can enable managers to solicit ideas from frontline workers that lead to performance improvement. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-005.pdf "Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an event study that considers the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to turning View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

impact on the success of employees and companies. “I came to the program on the late side, but I think I’ve found a set of research topics that thread the needle between relevance to real organizations and scholarly interest,” he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell?... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA

programming may significantly impact a student’s grade. Additionally, as absences significantly impact the ability of the team to function effectively, they may also be reflected in peer feedback which is an... View Details

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists is that our tax system fails to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By coding our GE managers' resumes, we were able to determine their strategic skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

few years, venture philanthropy's overall impact is quite limited. On another front, The Pew Charitable Trusts undertook a new approach in 1997 by creating the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program, which demands accountability every... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

some 20,000 dependents over the past 35 years. With those kinds of numbers, Children of Fallen Patriots figures that, after government help, the gap is half a billion dollars. “So that’s the total we’re going after,” Kim says. Through fundraising with View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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