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15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

rate (the share of the next dollar earned that is paid in taxes) at the top of the income ladder. Speaker of the House John Boehner, for example, argued that those high earners already paid their fair share: "The top one percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

arrested, but LGBTQ+ people are incarcerated at three times the rate of straight people. Veterans are arrested at a higher rate than non-veterans. When we don’t focus on improving the fate of returning... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

thought would be short-lived. But when we looked at the turnover rates again a few years later, we discovered the rate was about the same, but the driving cause was more than just the rapid change in IT: It... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

enrollment increased 2 percent to nearly 42,000. While enrollment growth slowed from fiscal 2022, the group continued to see strong demand from women, minority, and international participants, while maintaining an overall completion rate... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by resident Europeans in Asia and elsewhere. The colonies... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

keeping information private can directly harm consumers. After Los Angeles required mandatory hygiene information at restaurants, for example, hygiene rates rose and foodborne illnesses dropped. "Just by disclosing the information,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

requires obtaining ratings from at least two colleagues (and ideally at least six)—you will receive a detailed report that provides insight into your leadership and how others experience you. Please note that Qualtrics—the tool used in... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

Oxford University, after picking up Henry Kissinger’s A World Restored, he was hooked. “It’s a work of extraordinary genius about the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. I would still rate it as one of the best two or... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Frontier (218084) by Shawn Cole and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme FEBRUARY 2018 In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After much deliberation, Root Capital... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied risk associated with a large spread. As Mark Watson from... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

for testing home health aids). Q: What did you learn from the two "extreme teams" you followed out of a total pool of twenty-six? One, which you call the "Vision" team, received the highest rating for daily perceived... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,” says Rigol, noting that traditional economic models assume that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

increasing the asset base through capital expenditures. But those capital expenditures reduce free cash flows dollar-for-dollar—and are conveniently ignored by people anxious to do deals. For example, terminal values will assume perpetual growth View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

that enable them to do so. Hardly any politician has had the courage to call for restraint. Average household debt in the United States is currently 130 percent of average household income, up 20 percent since 2005 and double what it was twenty years ago. The U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

they might, they are not making progress on diversity. Instead, they have low retention rates for their diverse talent. In many cases, the “last in, first out” phenomenon may apply in times of crisis. The key to achieving both diversity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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