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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distress—requires setting priorities and moving beyond long lists of discrete recommendations. Creating an Economic Strategy: The Value Proposition The value proposition defines the distinctive competitive position of the area given its assets, location and potential... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2020
  • News

Starbucks Commits to Raising Awareness of Racial Bias

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination

By: Sara Bormann, Jan Bouwens and Christian Hofmann
This study examines how control elements of a firm affect coordination among profit centers. The firm operates a network of 59 profit centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination.... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure; Performance
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  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

research associate at HBS. The article appears in the new issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review. “If you look at the history of any successful social change movement, you’ll see there were moments of really effective agitation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Bridges made a shift in their internship structure, assigning an HBS intern to an Investment Associate role reporting directly to Sullivan. “(She) ended up getting involved in coordinating a bid for a new project and led some View Details
  • Web

Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Leemore S. Dafny Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Doctoral Programs Faculty from the Strategy unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found on... View Details
  • Web

Our Team - Impact Investments

received her BS and BA degrees in Finance and Mathematics from the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Marcus Sander Research Associate Marcus... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

number of HOM deliveries prevented (from 1998 to 2012) following the publication of SART guidelines; the associated healthcare savings (2014 U.S. dollars). Result(s): A singleton live birth was estimated to cost $17,100–$24,200. A twin... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

and social posts in 2018. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most interesting business trends of the year and what you expect in 2019. Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society “Firms and business leaders around the world are helping to solve some of society’s greatest... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

listen empathetically, welcome input, and rally the workforce around a common goal, according to a recent study by a team of researchers including Harvard Business School Professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller, who analyzed... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • 28 Mar 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    What's a Boss Worth?

    them look better. But how much of an effect does a good or bad boss have on workers, really? Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Christopher Stanton sets out to ask that question in The Value of Bosses, a paper recently published... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service