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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus... View Details

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Working Paper

Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

It is often difficult to evaluate all the costs and benefits of the welfare state. This paper suggests an alternative approach based on surveys of citizen satisfaction with welfare programs. In the first part of the paper we estimate the level of unemployment benefits... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Employment; Surveys; Programs; Government and Politics; Age; Income; Residency; Welfare; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost vs Benefits; Satisfaction; United Kingdom

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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers for her contributions to the field of photography. Two months later, on July 29, Morse died from cancer at age 46. In August of that year, James Harnett, a... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

fallen prey to skyrocketing rates of opioid abuse. “Every single one of my staff members has been affected in one way or another,” Marietta says of the opioid epidemic. “It’s wiped out an entire generation of people aged 20 to 45.” By... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

2015 and 2016 data for about 2,000 refugees between the ages of 18 and 64 at about 30 locations to see if they are employed after 90 days. In Switzerland, the research examines about 4,500 adult asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 who are... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

high, and many of the most difficult challenges have yet to be solved!" Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), Founder & CEO at Joro "We are in the midst of a unique period of rapid change: shifting from a fossil-fueled society to a clean energy... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

July 2020
Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

research on virtual communication tools, Ping is the necessary playbook for mastering virtual communication to increase productivity, gain influence, and deepen connections A Layperson’s Guide to the Middle Ages in Western Europe By Brian... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

concerns." Discussing these matters recently, Goldberg displays the same high level of energy and determination that have been his hallmarks throughout his life. Born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, he started working in his father's small hay, feed, and grain... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

"Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25... View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Sweden have received unprecedented support in national elections by running on anti-immigrant platforms. Yet, none of this is new. A century ago, mounting public pressure prompted Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended the View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

and for a broader audience than just theoretical economists. Both, of course, lived to see the age of ninety and then some. And despite their sharply contrasting views of political economics (Friedman regarded Galbraith as a socialist),... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2024
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Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

QB can't do it alone; he needs every one of those ten other people to be in it with him. That's part of the magic of team sports: it teaches kids from a very young age that it doesn't matter how good you are (or how good you think you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds

was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he determined that he could make a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

and studies how they do business. Each of these companies has exceptional practices when it comes to stakeholder management. Whether the stakeholder is an employee, customer, investor, vendor, or even society at large, these companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He has also been a board member of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Sundance Institute, and The Public Theater. Raymond J. McGuire... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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