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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
result of such despondency, children are not encouraged to go to school; many fail to attend at all or drop out early. Yet many multinational corporations, while undertaking their regular profit-making activities, have managed to change... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
education. There are still schools in America where teachers have to buy supplies for the children and where children share books. People have to be willing to see that public education is a valuable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
results of the poll. Sounds like terrific results So, near the end of a particularly long and difficult mission, where the crew and scientists want to draw particular attention among school children to findings, they should simply paint a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
technology—was fifty-three years old. According to Kuemmerle, it was "a path of no return." The entrepreneur was a senior manager at a prominent Germany company with three children in university. As Kuemmerle described in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 standard deviation, mostly due to large gains experienced by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
because they fear they're shortchanging their children for the sake of career advancement. But that attitude can be self-defeating, leading women to hold themselves back from promotions or drop out of the workforce altogether. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
group were women who were just about to step off [the career track] or who were at home with young children thinking, "I am going to come back but not for three years, so I want a strategy to bridge the gap, keep my skills current,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=gray%20rand%20et%20al.pdf August 2013 PLoS ONE Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
deeply and think imaginatively. Most managers don't want to devote this much time to thinking. But they would never go to a surgeon who approaches his job the way they approach theirs, nor would they send their children to a school that... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
cartoonist, Walt Disney was also drawn to the ethos of service and patriotism during World War I. In 1917, at age 16, he told his parents he would be enlisting in the Army, saying, “I don’t want my children asking me, ‘Why weren’t you in... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. The optimal policy increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of 1.28% of consumption in our baseline case.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
not currently in the full-time workforce. Many of the women who chose to leave their professional careers had approached Clark during his recent visits with alumni groups. They told him they felt disconnected from business and from HBS after leaving full-time work to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
will experience food insecurity due to the pandemic, and a Brookings Institution analysis shows two in five households with mothers and children under the age of 12 unable to afford enough food. COVID-19 also is causing disruptions... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
is comprised of an extensive collection of Harvard Business School cases devoted to information technology. Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
programs to support children and education—but they're often not coordinated, resulting in gaps and redundancies in service. This a fertile area for collaboration. "What you see in some places are business, civic, and education... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
in King Lear. Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Products, says that her children provide this kind of feedback for her. Saj-Nicole Joni, in an article in the upcoming issue of HBR, suggests the need for a third opinion offered by someone either... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
saving, accumulation of capital or resulting improvement in income. Without capital, innovation is not rewarded. In fact, it is regarded as risky. Failure can produce starvation. Therefore, labor-intensive practices do not change. What security there is results from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett