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- 04 May 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Reversing Brain Drain: Moving Talent to Middle America
Keywords: Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury
- 2014
- Teaching Note
Fine Harvest Restaurant Group
By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
- December 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Workplace Safety at Alcoa (B)
At the May 1996 annual shareholders meeting, Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill reported that Alcoa was making great progress toward becoming a world-class leader, both in terms of workplace safety and profitability. This validated of O'Neill's decade-long emphasis on safety as... View Details
Spear, Steven J. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (B)." Harvard Business School Case 600-068, December 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
- 26 Apr 2021
- News
Inequality and Agency in Employee Resource Groups
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) We all wait in lines—at the grocery store, the bank, or a ticket booth, or on hold to speak to a customer service rep about your cable bill. “By one estimate, Americans spend 37 billion hours... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Students Blog on Economics
A blog launched last year by four HBS students, the Economic Policy Review (www.econblog.org) seeks to provide nonpartisan, balanced commentary on pressing economic issues facing the U.S. economy. Kyle Sable (HBS ’09), one of the EPR’s cofounders, told the Harbus,... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
Educating a Nation
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
If you think that Africa might have some overlooked investment opportunities, but don’t know how to follow up on your hunch, that’s where Cyrille Nkontchou (MBA 1997) can help. His London-based company, LiquidAfrica Holdings, is a one-stop center for securities trading... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli when he said, “You never want a... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And beer makers are looking to meet... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
- September 27, 2013
- Other Article
Closing the Opportunity Divide
Chertavian, Gerald. "Closing the Opportunity Divide." White House Blog (September 27, 2013).
- March 2024
- Article
Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya
By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that... View Details
Alfonsi, Livia, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel. "Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya." Art. 103215. Journal of Development Economics 167 (March 2024).
- January 27, 2020
- Article
Food-Stamp Work Requirements Just Look Cruel
The rule doesn’t help beneficiaries find the steady employment that doesn’t exist. View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Food-Stamp Work Requirements Just Look Cruel." Bloomberg Opinion (January 27, 2020).
- 2017
- Working Paper
Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment
By: Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa and Elena Simintzi
We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered passage of anti-patent-troll laws at the state level. We find that the... View Details
Appel, Ian, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi. "Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-072, February 2017.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
By: Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry... View Details
Glaeser, Edward L., William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-019, September 2009.
- July 1991 (Revised December 2018)
- Compilation
Slavery
By: Thomas K. McCraw
Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations of slavery, this note is designed to present the ethics, economics (especially the perverse incentive systems),... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Human Capital; History; Ethics; Social Issues; Motivation and Incentives; United States
McCraw, Thomas K. "Slavery." Harvard Business School Compilation 792-001, July 1991. (Revised December 2018.)
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
People told Dinesh Vazirani (MBA 1994) he was crazy. In 2000, he and his wife, Minal, cofounded Saffronart, an online auction house focused primarily on Indian art. With internet penetration in India low at the time, Vazirani traveled the world to conduct physical... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna