Children - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

excellent leader at work. But you may also want to dress well. And make sure your children are fed. And that the nanny got to the house in time for you to leave for work. And remember to check in with your close friends. And find time to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

we want our children to be safe and get an excellent education,” said Minson. Finally, expressing a positive emotion also played a role in how the speaker is perceived. Focusing on the elements that contributed to being viewed as... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

Research Summary

Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

children should attend these meetings. One family says that children should attend when they are able to feed themselves; most families start bringing the younger generation into meetings at around age 16.... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

sends them into the field to help distribute glasses to children in need. The departing team member went to a school in a tough neighborhood in the Bronx to present a new pair of eyeglasses to an eighth grader with severely impaired... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

would you want your children to be these people? Defining your own yardstick for success can often be quite difficult, according to Stevenson. "A ton of books on success all say, 'Choose your target and shoot at it,'" he said.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and powerful—people she saw as greedy... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

should consider whether the structure of the school day is ideal. Should we have more breaks to ensure that low-performing children can recover, for instance? Two, in accountability systems we often compare and evaluate based on test... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

Dietz, who didn’t realize that children saw the company’s MRI scanners as cold, scary chambers of misery until he visited a hospital and saw for himself. The machines created enough fear and tears that many kids needed to be sedated. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

A few years ago, Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues decided to find out why many people in the developing world fail to wash their hands with soap, despite lifesaving benefits. Every year more than a million children under the age of five die... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

Workers who used to be fine with regular office hours pre-pandemic are still struggling, as the pandemic continues to affect their availability and the predictability of their work hours. Parents with vaccinated kids could still find their View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Most eight-year-olds are familiar with cooties: an imaginary infectious disease spread through proximity to children of the opposite sex. We eventually outgrow the silly idea. But when it comes to the world of consumer products, fear of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

apps to improve their and their children’s health outcomes. Ovia seeks to improve poor maternal health outcomes, particularly among women and children of color, adopting as its existential intent the provision of “equal care, longitudinal... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

raising a family in a land that delivers Franklin Roosevelt's (and Norman Rockwell's) four freedoms. Still others dream of their children accessing the highest possible level of education, living healthy lives, being good citizens in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

pay, Healy says. For job functions with fewer women, such as R&D, general management, and operations, compensation increases for women switching firms averaged 37.3 percent, versus 23.1 percent for men. Women with partners and View Details