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  • February 2023
  • Article

Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record

By: Zoë Cullen, Will Dobbie and Mitchell Hoffman
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant’s criminal record... View Details
Keywords: Criminal Record; Hiring; Background Checks; Recruitment; Insurance
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete, Reject, Revise

By: Kristin Sippl
Artisanal gold mining is a Southern subsistence livelihood posing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. In 2011, Fairtrade International launched a certification program to address sustainability problems in the sector. Southern activists,... View Details
Keywords: Eco-labeling; Extractive Industries; Emerging Economies; Fair Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Programs; Governance Compliance; Competition; Adaptation; Mining Industry
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  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

prior to HBS, where he was an investment professional at Artemis Real Estate Partners. He discovered his interest in real estate while pursuing his undergraduate degree in Finance at Cornell University. Since coming to HBS, he has also... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

programmable biology, and then all of the disruption from the pandemic, from conflict and economic disruption, the frame in which we’re doing strategy has all changed. Now, you’re just as likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • 17 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

neuroscience tools to shed light on how our brains make purchasing decisions. "We were interested in whether considering the price first changed how people thought about the decision process, and whether it changed the way the brain... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 2018
  • Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg
The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research
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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

offered loans at a higher interest rate because you are seen as a high-risk borrower. The best thing you can do is to visit annualcreditreport.gov, study the information there, then click the link to the authorized site,... View Details
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Wealth and Poverty; Selection and Staffing; Crime and Corruption; Income; Leading Change; Information Management; Argentina
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

interest rates, or its currency’s value, as classical economics insists. A nation’s competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade.” View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “Many people wear their partner’s shirt, or they sleep on their partner’s side of the bed when they’re away; I was View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

  • 26 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

world mathematically and use that to make decisions is very interesting to me," he says. "The world is not deterministic—there is a randomness built into it. And yet, by using robust optimization techniques we can tackle a wide... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Along with identifying a primary customer, you must also define your core values in a way that ranks the priority of shareholders, employees, and customers. Value statements that are lists of aspirational... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel