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underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and Hanover, PA with a $5 million commitment over 5 years. Full Futures brought together diverse partners... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Research Brief: Staying in the Game

protection. Bernstein and his coauthors believe those frictions, as well as the existing stigma surrounding bankruptcy, and the lack of knowledge about it, must be taken into account when designing new policies aimed at increasing the use... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

the duration and size of price changes using scraped data collected from 181 retailers in 31 countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52241 March–April 2018 Harvard Business Review Why Compliance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, and employees. Along the way the data is also... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business, CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial View Details

14 Feb 2023
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Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?

Keywords: Re: Jonas Heese; Banking

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

training in ethics and corporate programs focus on intentional acts. We saw an opportunity to contribute to our understanding of how so many unethical acts occur. Q: Why don't traditional approaches to thinking about ethics work? A: Most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Student Research - Doctoral

advantageous as previously assumed. We... 2025 Book Chapter Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears , Jay Garg , James J. Choi and David Laibson We study the introduction of a choice architecture... View Details

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Online Requests - Research Computing Services

Help Online Requests 22ms RCS Research Computing Environment Help Request Form Please use this form for questions, to request assistance, or to report a problem with the HBS Research Computing Environment. This could include issues with your account, the login process,... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A chartered accountant, he holds two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Cited by his students as a dedicated and innovative teacher, Datar received... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

tasks and structure if you don’t also account for the organization’s identity. Here the FBI had no choice but to immediately focus on ‘what we do.’ It was clear as soon as those planes hit: We will now do national security and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

addition to being a standalone certificate program, Business Analytics is also one component course of the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program , which also includes Economics for Managers and Financial View Details

16 Feb 2023
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ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2017
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Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

transforming both enterprises and creating a formidable competitor for Medtronic. I didn’t have the courage to accept short-term risk to create long-term gain. It took Medtronic two decades of expensive research and development programs... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago (Harvard University Press, 1939) Edgar Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership(Jossey-Bass, 1985) Your... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia, we design a field experiment to unbundle these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

band together to lobby for government support, the concerns of restaurant owners and the unique realities and concerns of their industry remain largely unaddressed by government programs designed to help small businesses. Two months into... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy and... View Details

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55999 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—Gatekeepers in financial markets have the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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