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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

Employment,” which Rouen co-authored with Stanford professor Rebecca Lester and University of Texas professor Braden Williams. As the American economy slowly recovers from the pandemic, corporate leaders, policymakers, and researchers are... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

percent of arbitrators previously worked as advisers and they tended to favor brokers. The 8 percent of these arbitrators who were forced to pay clients restitution during their adviser careers were even more biased against consumers. Egan—along with Northwestern View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Tests for Physicians and Their Leaders for the Decade Ahead by Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Toby Cosgrove, MD In the years immediately ahead, physicians and their leaders must move to a new level of health care in which they reliably deliver... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Research Design - Impact Investments

have identified a universe of over 13,000 portfolio companies of more than 400 impact investors. This research enables the segmentation and analysis of the impact investing universe at a previously... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), the recently retired president of the University of North Carolina, has made a lifelong habit of answering what he terms "life's cold calls of responsibility." To a gathering of graduating HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

sources—distribution from the endowment, unrestricted current use gifts, and restricted current use gifts—increased to $260 million from $244 million in fiscal 2021. This revenue amounted to 27 percent of the School’s total revenues, compared with 30 percent a year... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Oct 2023
  • News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

University, and Alice Lee-Yoon, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. A worrisome pattern of work, work, work With three experiments, a survey, and a large dataset, the research team arrived at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

negotiations. After all, analysts in the investment management industry have highly portable skills and are frequently poached by competing firms. And though all of Park's employees were performing roughly the same work, they had differing View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

division between the 'real world' and university research that you often encounter in the United States." Staats and Upton traveled to Wipro's offices in Bangalore on multiple occasions, interviewing employees at all View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about how part of your identity seems to go away as you go through that process." “It was interesting for us to think about how part of your... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Luca, Harvard University Economics Professor Edward L. Glaeser, and HBS doctoral student Hyunjin Kim. The researchers combined data from US Census reports, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Google Street View, and Yelp to explore... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

University professors Suresh Nallareddy and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, analyze data created by tax filings to compare effects on workers at varying compensation levels in different US states with and... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

which banks can address federal CRA concerns, and thereby promote bank acquisitions in their jurisdictions. Thus, our findings suggest that the implementation of social legislation at one level in a federal regulatory system undermines... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne