Aid Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

to their specific needs—e.g., insurance for long-term care and drugs; easy access to integrated teams that specialize in treating chronic diseases and disabilities; pre-tax savings accounts for uninsured health care needs, such as hearing View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Cassidy Wald Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

representation in the initiatives prioritized across all HBS departments. DAAG worked with MBA Admissions & Financial Aid to host webinars for prospective students and held in-person disability-awareness events for newly admitted... View Details

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

sense to do business with that country. What part of that country is the best trade partner? Who are the best contacts?" Analyzing Data Of course, immigrants most likely to aid trading decisions are those who work at the firm. But because... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

live, study, and work in 38 countries in our region. It’s the first time we’ve had such an overseas study program run out of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.” Group effort: The innovationXchange, an international advisory group formed by Bishop to develop... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

put flesh on the bones of independence, the USA and USSR were eager to offer aid and advice to promote their own models. The PRC, suffering the consequences of a century-long tangle with imperialism and decades of war coupled with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Marie Kyle

Clinton Health Access Initiative, "sparked a passion for the development sector," says Marie. But she wasn't satisfied with the standard aid packages she saw in emerging markets. "I wanted to look at ideas outside the... View Details

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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

Course Fee IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student loan, a need-based HBS scholarship, or a combination of both depending on individual circumstances. The... View Details

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

effectively to voters? A: While around a fifth of U.S. adults are political partisans, about half don't participate. If citizens think their vote will not matter, see no important differences among the candidates, encounter barriers to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

firm-specific capital market incentives are not. These results suggest that harmonizing accounting standards may result in more comparable accounting methods and numbers, but that effective regulatory oversight will be important in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

departments, passing on important knowledge and providing helpful evaluations and feedback. The operating managers' own evaluations, development plans, and promotions, in turn, depend on how successfully they nurture their subordinates. Line managers are held... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

primarily on its projected impact on customers but also taking into account its fit with the bank's strategy and goals and its funding requirements. In some cases, focus groups were conducted to provide a rough sense of an idea's likely View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

effective case-method learning, and HBS classrooms are a microcosm of the global economy. The School’s strategic approach to financial aid is two-pronged. First, it enables a wide variety of qualified... View Details

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

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

the fact so many of them came to my aid is a testimonial to the rapport, humanity, and cohesiveness of the HBS community.” Professor Josh Margolis helped to write and now teaches a case on Prize4Life in his LEAD class, ensuring that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

within the community to operate each plant , and nonprofit organizations aid in the underlying behavioral changes required to effectively collect more waste. Without the government’s regulatory framework,... View Details

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

Repetition of interaction may improve learning, since experience working together aids in the identification, transfer, and application of knowledge among members within a group. Additionally, experience need not be constrained to one... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from development banks or foreign aid agencies... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a happy outcome. ©iStock/vadimguzhva In order to test their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details