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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Electric Home Rebate Program,[23] geared towards helping low- and moderate-income households upgrade for clean energy and energy efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates this will “save households... View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
California families. The result was perhaps a bias toward gaining evidence in support of a predetermined strategy. California is a car culture. Most households undertake a weekly shopping expedition, supplemented with stock-up purchases... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
households to their companies,” Neeley says. “The least you can do is care about how they are.” While people may have hesitated to talk about their responsibilities at home prior to the pandemic for fear that they may not appear fully... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
retirement accounts will be taken into account when calculating the amount of aid awarded. Assets borrowed against to attend HBS are excluded from this calculation. Substantial household assets or income may lead to a reevaluation of... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
brand’s respectable yet plateauing 20 million household mark. In just over a year, he led a successful turnaround, salvaging fractured partner relationships, upping productivity, and reducing costs. He and a handful of key executives thus... View Details
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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory
research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets. His recent research focuses on... View Details
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
to gender, economics, and perceptions of leadership. He received the strongest support from white women without college degrees, 62 percent of whom voted for him. Although his supporters reported median household incomes of $70,000, the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet—the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
long commutes, household chores, and mindless scrolling on social media. We must make deliberate, sometimes difficult choices that protect the precious hours in our days, Whillans says, whether it’s a big decision like pursuing a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Peter O. Crisp (MBA 1960), a pioneering venture capitalist and philanthropist, is known for his firm’s investments in companies that have become household names: Intel, Apple,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
of Total)” Download Data Set in Excel US Home Ownership Rates U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division Download Data Set in Excel US Homes Lacking Plumbing United States Census Bureau, Decennial Census,... View Details
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
In a cluttered online world, few can resist the convenience of an automated ranking when deciding what movie to watch on Netflix or which seafood restaurant looks promising in a Google search. But when it comes to finding a job candidate or someone to do a basic View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
have long balanced competing notions of fairness when deciding on policy toward the poor. We want everyone to pitch in, to pay their "fair share," so we have moved away from making cash transfers to low-income households and... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their workplaces. What makes them... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 May 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo
community support to amplify my journey and contribution. Little did I know, we’d become the first African-American mother-daughter duo to graduate. B.J. and her mom, Benaree As a Black female founder, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have grown up in a View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
best predictors of success for at least one class of Harvard MBAs was whether or not a parent of the applicant had had a career in management. An implication that one might draw from this finding is that the presence in a household of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett