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01 Dec 2003
News

Celebrating HBS

HBS and the role of the campaign in helping further the work of the School. A highlight of the evening was a multimedia presentation, narrated by Professor Nancy F. Koehn, that looks at the leadership impact of the School through the lens of people and communities... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

structure may affect borrowing costs. Corporate legal structure refers to the legal fragmentation of a firm into multiple, separately incorporated entities. This fragmentation is bound to be a factor when lenders determine the pricing of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2010
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Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

disability expenses, (2) Health insurance affects health status positively, (3) Layoffs are harmful to everything from mental and physical well-being to work behavior, (4) Work schedules and length of hours View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

million state and local public workers were laid off this spring as governments scrambled to cut expenses amid widespread mandatory lockdowns that halted vast swaths of economic activity. But not all states, cities, counties, and other local governments were View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008

with strategy-proofness and stability, and direct attention to some open questions. Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors: Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

internalized and thus inform their actions. Further research from Professor Coffman shows us that not only do these stereotypes and beliefs affect how managers view their direct reports , but they also View Details

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

in terms of their R&D investment and financing decisions. We document that these negative shocks lead affected firms to increase R&D expenditures, which they finance with debt. In terms of investment behavior, these shocks... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2008
News

When You Speak, This Group Listens

level of programs and services for alumni worldwide. At our meetings three times each year, we are also kept informed of major issues and opportunities facing HBS, and we provide feedback on those that affect alumni. The 44 hard-working... View Details

Keywords: Saquib Shirazi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

pay the penalty to regulators without it affecting your reputation.” The paper, When the Local Newspaper Leaves Town: The Effects of Local Newspaper Closures on Corporate Misconduct, confirms that the press serves as a watchdog and keeps... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis of rivals,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

companies like Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Sierra. A couple of decades later, SpaceX, in particular, has absolutely revolutionized the costs of launching rockets and thus doing anything in space. Baskin: How might the space economy affect... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

Lagace: What did you find? Farronato For consumer choices, we find the knowing that a professional is licensed does not affect the decision of whom to hire. Instead, we find that consumers are very price sensitive and care a lot about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

23 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers

to pay two dollars and raise menu prices." Edelman and Wright say a "coordination failure" keeps buyers from seeing the forest for the trees—that is, they don't consider how their individual transactions affect the market as a whole. "If... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Air Transportation; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation

Student-Profile

Ximena Garcia-Rada

Ximena’s research focuses primarily on consumer behavior in the context of close, personal relationships. She considers how the experiences consumers share with their friends and family members affect those relationships. She is also... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with whom he had worked at Palladium... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

research by Zoe B. Cullen and Ebehi Iyoha, assistant professors at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor David Atkin. For the working paper "Navigating Choppy Waters: How US Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect Small Businesses," the team... View Details

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Harvard Business School

the Business Environment," which focused on external influences affecting business enterprises, particularly political, demographic, cultural, and technological shifts in society at large. Organizational Development in the Inner City In... View Details

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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020

artistic pursuits by working on a new series of paintings exploring the chaos of mass migration in the Middle East and how it affects one’s sense of identity. In September, he delegated the day-to-day operations of his company to others... View Details

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