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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
stability, as well as to the health and vigor of the global economy. Professor David Moss explores what has happened, what it means, and what can be done, drawing especially on the history of democracy,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE In April, the Honeywell case was... View Details
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
rises rapidly; it is now four times as high as in 2000. Many underdogs thus in fact appear to be losers. We also find evidence of a superstar effect. Among the best-performing titles, an ever-smaller number of titles accounts for the bulk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
assignment frictions, which appear to be more severe in lower-income regions. The productivity loss generated by inefficient assignment is equal to 13% of the productivity gap between high- and low-income countries in our sample. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
student clubs at HBS. Can you tell us about your annual conference? This year will be the 21st year of hosting a conference. It’s traditionally been called Cyberposium (recently rebranded to a name with hopefully even more longevity —... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
names: Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and many others. All that said, it is simply irresponsible for us to tell students, managers, investors, or inventors to just go out and be entrepreneurial. As we are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
one continual change initiative. Maybe it's a relief to know that only a few of these efforts will actually be carried through to completion, but that knowledge doesn't do much for morale. Change fatigue is rampant, and it's exacerbated... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
synchronous sessions with a combination of HBS faculty, social impact practitioners, and alumni to discuss cross-sector topics. Each session will be interactive with opportunities to collaborate with other HBS alumni on problem solving,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical data should be especially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015
Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My mother is Ukrainian, my father... View Details
- December 2018
- Case
Good Energy Group PLC
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Founded at the end of 1999 by Juliet Davenport and Martin Edwards, Good Energy was the number-two renewable-energy seller in the United Kingdom at the end of 2016, supplying over 71,000 of the country’s 27 million households and small businesses with 100% renewable... View Details
Keywords: Power/Energy; Green Energy; Renewables; Wind Power; Electricity; Power; Strategy Development; Electric Vehicles; Customer Service; Energy Policy; Barriers To Entry; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Good Energy Group PLC." Harvard Business School Case 719-439, December 2018.
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
sure that the highest-productivity owner wins, countries should typically adopt exemption of foreign income so that overall productivity is as high as it could be. Said another way, it may well be more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
I first applied to HBS through the 2+2 program when I was a senior in college. I had good grades, did well on my GMAT, and had two great mentors to write references letters for me. I worked hard on the application, and was disappointed... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
we lack the resources needed for translation and subtitling. We retain the ambition to add China to our list of countries in which we conduct interviews. Can I use the material freely? Yes, for both teaching and research purposes. It cannot View Details