Social Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

highlights the process through which diversity initiatives become successful and offers insight into how organizations can more effectively recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

effective patient engagement. His prior research focused on health economics and outcome modeling. Landman is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and has post-graduate training in orthopaedic surgery from Harvard Orthopaedics. He... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

high levels of inequality. While closing the borders of small markets to globalization has been a recipe for slow growth and low productivity, opening them all too often is a recipe for instability and shocks. Effective institutions,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

me whether almonds or peanuts were healthier, I would have said almonds, hands down. But it’s not true! Peanuts are just as nutritious as almonds, except that the almond companies were able to much more effectively market their product,... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

data impacting strategy, Cunningham notes, allowing her to see the cause and effect almost in real time. “I can look at the trade implications, the service time and labor hour implications, and implications for our customer satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s crumbling infrastructure and its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

all it provides. Second, we redistribute to a large degree through the tax system, and that's a really important set of social decisions. Finally, we create a set of incentives for behavior and that's incredibly important. The other way... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

predominantly male working environments of the factory floor and management offices, as well as her family challenges in a dual-career household. At the end of each chapter are “Pearls from Pat,” which reinforce the effective strategies... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

positions. Worse still, many businesses were based on concessions from local dictators. This had the effect of reinforcing local institutional constraints on domestic entrepreneurship rather than removing them. There was the more general... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

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Program Policies - HBS Online

Online from another language to English, please allow the Accommodations team an additional 5 business days to complete the translation process before the Accommodations team can review the accommodations request. Please also remove any View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

access, which can be expensive and spotty in Havana. Most days, she works from a nearby public park with a Wi-Fi hotspot. A landline, ever dependable, gets heavy use. “Megumi is organized and strategic,” says Collin Laverty. “She’s brought a balance and a grounding... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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