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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

companies," Siegel says. "With democratization there's more open access to higher education in previously male-dominated fields since 1990." Furthermore, Confucianism has contributed toward... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

increases countries’ democracy scores, whereas the impact of economic integration with non-democracies is muted. Results are stronger when democratic partners have a longer history of democracy, grow faster, spend more on public goods, are culturally closer, and export... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • June 2019
    • Article

    Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo
    Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries explore the relationship between maternal employment and adult daughters’ and sons’ employment and domestic outcomes. In the employment sphere, adult daughters, but not... View Details
    Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Gender Attitudes; Household Labor; Maternal Employment; Social Class; Social Learning Theory; Social Mobility; Employment; Gender; Attitudes; Household; Labor; Learning; Outcome or Result
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    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

    like education planning and account aggregation, advisory firms can strengthen their businesses, shows the study, which Di Maggio cowrote with five collaborators from the investment company Dimensional Fund Advisors. "The issue is, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
    • 23 May 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital

    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    Glass profile database, which collects work history and education data from various public and private sources. Combined with Dow Jones VentureSource data, the list was winnowed to 14,000 founders of VC-backed companies who listed a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    work themselves, hold more supervisory responsibilities, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time. “Some asked if children of stay-at-home moms were happier,” McGinn says. “Many decried the research as another... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • December 1998
    • Article

    Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

    By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
    A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
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    • 29 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

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    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American Dream and US View Details
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    center of it all. And whether that faith is in organized religion or whether it is in whatever you call a higher power or nature or the divine or what whatever it is, just knowing that you are not the center of it all. We were just saying... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
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    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    Hori asked, “and what exactly should that Mitsui look like?” Keywords: Strategy ; Management ; Operations ; Organizations ; Japan Citation Educators Related Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Akiko Saito. "Mitsui & Co., Ltd." Harvard Business... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    percent higher than before the introduction of the law by 1980. The authors interpret these patterns as “counter-mobilization” bolstered by local news accounts, which eroded the magnitude of Black voters’ gains. What’s more, when the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    Botswana, for instance—that the creation of profitable businesses is the key. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. Small- and medium-sized domestic... View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

      Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

    automation but prefer higher levels of automation for others than themselves,” De Freitas says. “This is because they think that they are better at driving than increasingly automated systems. We believe this creates a barrier to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

    applicants hold a bachelor's degree or higher and there are minimum salaries that must be met for positions. Visas are requested by the employer for a specific individual. Microsoft, for example, is the lead actor when it makes an H-1B... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

    appeal to and require different types of entrepreneurial leaders and we are hoping that our research will help us understand those differences—if they exist,” says Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at HBS and Chair of the HBS Executive... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    over small changes in their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the... View Details