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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
beneficial effects in performance.” To study the issue, the authors analyzed more than 450,000 survey responses from employees at hundreds of large US companies. They looked specifically at companies whose employees ranked them highly... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
remarks follow. While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the new organizational units... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
managers and with clergy and laypeople from a variety of Christian denominations; case studies of relevant programs for businesspeople; a survey of seminarians; a review of existing literature on executive spiritual development; and... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
from the metropolitan areas on both coasts. She wants to see that change. A 2020 survey conducted by the International Game Developers Association included questions about gender demographics in game development. According to IGDA’s data,... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
it is imperative to provide an unbiased, nonpartisan, data-driven analysis of what truly ails the US economy and to offer realistic steps to restore US competitiveness. The new report is based on findings of the 2016 HBS survey on US... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
presenters. (See www.alumni.hbs.edu/women50 for a full list of speakers, as well as photos and videos from the events.) Professor Robin Ely, senior associate dean for Culture and Community, unveiled the early results of her survey of some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
benefit to doing more, as is evident from our recent experience with the School's US Competitiveness Project. In pondering how to better understand the prospects for American competitiveness, we realized that our alumni represent a unique resource. Indeed, their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
connect with the School and with students. A front-row view to the next set of game-changing companies is also a plus! While many initiatives are happening on campus, HBS is also reaching outward to deepen its connection to alums. External Relations has just completed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
because it doesn’t factor in people who have abandoned their job searches. Few predict the situation will improve soon: Almost half (47 percent) of the HBS alumni surveyed for the report expected US firms to employ fewer people in three... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for their companies. A survey conducted among large employers this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
conditions under which such systems were or were not beneficial to the manufacturer.” Interviewing leading VMI-experienced manufacturers and retailers, Kulp identified information transfer as a potential trouble spot. Her insights were supported by View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
students and recent graduates, incoming MBA students, and mid-career professionals. A recent survey of 1,000 past participants showed the impact that completing an HBS Online course can have on a person’s life and career. Among the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
almost as soon as you land in-country.” After living and working abroad and in the United States, Mette Andersen (MBA 2018) appreciated experiencing a new culture in a growing Latin American economy. Her team’s assignment—observing ticket-buying transactions and View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
consulting to a dozen health and human-services organizations, two of which I still work with today. In addition, I work part-time for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations running an insurance program. At Johns Hopkins, I teach a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
calls for a new wave of reforms. But what reforms? Based on extensive surveys of executives and business school deans, Datar, Garvin, and coauthor Patrick Cullen concluded that MBA students need to balance the time spent honing analytical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
needs and expectations, using valuable information from the ongoing MBA and Executive Education surveys. Those surveys helped the committee identify program ideas targeted to specific age groups. The committee also developed a set of... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the right thing. We also found that their expectations in this vein are often higher than other generations’ expectations. In the automotive category, for instance, millennials expect car companies to create vehicles that will get more than 60 miles per gallon in 10... View Details