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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Health Disorders; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Conflict and Resolution; Bosnia and Hercegovina
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  • January–February 2019
  • Article

Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

By: Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim
We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Purpose; Employee Motivation; Belief Systems; Corporate Performance; Human Capital; Middle Management; Culture; Corporate Culture; Meaning; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness
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  • November 2013 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Freemium Pricing at Dropbox

By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Online storage company Dropbox provided remote-storage over the internet of any type of computer file, along with file sharing, synchronization and backup. Using a freemium pricing strategy whereby a basic service was free-of-charge and a premium service was paid,... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Price; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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  • March 1982 (Revised April 1989)
  • Background Note

Industrial Buyer Behavior

May be used as background material for courses in industrial marketing and industrial procurement. Surveys the economic, behavioral, and organizational influences that shape buying decision-making in corporations and other institutions. Also describes the kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Marketing; Decision Making
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  • 08 Jan 2014
  • News

Study: Fight Performance Anxiety by Getting Excited

  • 05 Jan 2012
  • News

HBS's Noam Wasserman on Cofounders, Equity Splits, and Reality Distortion Fields

  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Capitalism Concerns

  • 26 Jan 2012
  • News

U.S. Competitiveness to Decline, Say Harvard Business School Graduates

  • 18 Mar 2014
  • News

The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

  • 20 Jun 2013
  • News

To conversation about disengaged workers, listeners say, 'Yep'

  • 27 Oct 2020
  • News

Election debates don’t sway voters enough

  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Says

  • 28 Mar 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun
  • 17 Apr 2015
  • News

This CEO Blind Spot Is Costing Shareholders Billions

  • November 2021
  • Article

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Investment Decisions; COVID-19 Pandemic; Impact; Health Pandemics; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
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  • Apr 2015
  • Video

An Economy Doing Half Its Job

Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin discuss the findings of Harvard Business School’s 2013–14 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness. Their report, "An Economy Doing Half Its Job," focuses on a troubling divergence in the... View Details
  • October 2014
  • Article

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: Normative Diversity and a Role for Equal Sacrifice

By: Matthew Weinzierl
A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of taxation is Utilitarian. I present new survey evidence that most people disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Theory
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  • Article

Immigrant Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914

Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial talent. This article surveys finance, one of the many sectors in which immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in... View Details
Keywords: History; Talent and Talent Management; Groups and Teams; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Immigration; Banks and Banking; United States
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