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  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

So much has changed since a groundbreaking study found that daughters of working moms often perform better in their own careers than daughters of stay-at-home moms—and are just as happy, to boot. Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 14 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fostering Translational Research: Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance

Keywords: by Sen Chai & Willy C. Shih; Education
  • 23 May 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
  • 1982
  • Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

By: T. M. Amabile
Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching
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  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

switched to a new employer 27 percent left employment to attend college or another post-secondary education program 22 percent returned to high school Five percent were neither working nor in school [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • December 1998
  • Article

Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
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  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

work themselves, hold more supervisory responsibilities, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time. “Some asked if children of stay-at-home moms were happier,” McGinn says. “Many decried the research as another... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2019
  • Article

Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo
Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries explore the relationship between maternal employment and adult daughters’ and sons’ employment and domestic outcomes. In the employment sphere, adult daughters, but not... View Details
Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Gender Attitudes; Household Labor; Maternal Employment; Social Class; Social Learning Theory; Social Mobility; Employment; Gender; Attitudes; Household; Labor; Learning; Outcome or Result
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  • 15 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

automation but prefer higher levels of automation for others than themselves,” De Freitas says. “This is because they think that they are better at driving than increasingly automated systems. We believe this creates a barrier to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

companies," Siegel says. "With democratization there's more open access to higher education in previously male-dominated fields since 1990." Furthermore, Confucianism has contributed toward... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

like education planning and account aggregation, advisory firms can strengthen their businesses, shows the study, which Di Maggio cowrote with five collaborators from the investment company Dimensional Fund Advisors. "The issue is, the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

  Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

Glass profile database, which collects work history and education data from various public and private sources. Combined with Dow Jones VentureSource data, the list was winnowed to 14,000 founders of VC-backed companies who listed a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

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

Botswana, for instance—that the creation of profitable businesses is the key. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. Small- and medium-sized domestic... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

applicants hold a bachelor's degree or higher and there are minimum salaries that must be met for positions. Visas are requested by the employer for a specific individual. Microsoft, for example, is the lead actor when it makes an H-1B... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 1984
  • Book

Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

By: Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence and D. Q. Mills
Keywords: Management; Assets; Higher Education; Programs
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  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal level (abstract, superordinate)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

appeal to and require different types of entrepreneurial leaders and we are hoping that our research will help us understand those differences—if they exist,” says Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at HBS and Chair of the HBS Executive... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

a (generated) index of "market" beliefs is 20 percent higher for titled squatters than for untitled squatters, in spite of leading otherwise similar lives. Moreover, the effect is sufficiently large so as to make the beliefs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

center of it all. And whether that faith is in organized religion or whether it is in whatever you call a higher power or nature or the divine or what whatever it is, just knowing that you are not the center of it all. We were just saying... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff

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