Household - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

running around the house," Nanda says. "After seeing its product in the field for some time, iRobot has since improved the original Roomba and is introducing other new products like the Scooba [a robot mop] that are targeted to solve more difficult View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Copenhagen Business School . Boris Vallee : Winner of the 2015 Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income from the Society for Financial Studies for “Call Me Maybe? The Effects of Exercising Contingent Capital.” Boris Vallee : Winner of a Benjamin Delessert... 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

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

husband and I grow as a team when it comes to managing our household and our collective careers. Sally Sorte Year: Second Mom of: Olivia (2 years) Pre-HBS Industry: Teach for America, Google, founded a charter school, McKinsey Post-HBS... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

clear-headed adviser,” Eisenmann adds. “They’ve probably been doing the lion’s share of keeping the household on the rails and caring for children while you’ve been working 100-hour weeks and ignoring the family. At some point, you’ll... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as a woman of color. I came to HBS to close the Network Gap, the... View Details

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

would pay several percentage points more for the food and nonfood merchandise that—after housing—is their second-largest household expense. So in the debate about what to do about Wal-Mart, let's keep in mind who's reaping the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger... View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

Harish Hande and Neville Williams as a private for-profit social enterprise. SELCO initially aimed to sell and service photovoltaic systems in Dr. Hande’s home state of Karnataka, with a mission of providing sustainable energy services to low-income View Details

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

might say we need to equalize Black and white household wealth because communities have been deprived of economic opportunities,” Desai says. “It’s really a question of: How do we address this deep wound in our collective past, with the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2005
News

Power Couple

ship-to-shore, rather than broadcast,” Sarnoff told BusinessWeek (March 7, 2005). “Uncle Dave might look at this narrowcasting phenomenon and think ship-to-shore is coming back.” The Sarnoff household is further wired into media:... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

example, homeowners traditionally hire housekeepers, gardeners, and others to help with common household chores. TaskRabbit, the digital equivalent, lets you hire people, but do so over the web. Likewise, the startup company Washio... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

"Every morning I text her 'Good morning, beautiful.'" Household chore: Even an activity that might otherwise be viewed as drudgery can be meaningful when a couple does it together; 6 percent of respondents said their rituals involved... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

industrial goods.” Pamela Walker Laird, Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing , 1998 2 In the American economy of the early 1800s, many household items, such as soap or clothing, were made at home and... View Details

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

a course. The grant application asks prospective participants to provide their annual household income, household size, number of dependents, and answer two essay questions. Eligible participants may only... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine directed to the... View Details

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