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01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction to any suggestion that small business fails to live up to the many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

still in progress. The idea is “making the most powerful data tools practical and accessible to practitioners,” he says. To do that effectively, they need to be as close to the process as possible, Paul says. Most of the 160-person... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

08 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

amazing content about working at their business that lives on career pages, social media, etc. And, because we're data geeks, we've built some really interesting analytics on the back end. I spend most of my... View Details

Keywords: Technology

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and customer sensitivity to service... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

census data on retail stores located in England, Sadun found that stricter planning restrictions against big-box stores actually coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers, a signal their business was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

effect on population size." Impact of robots more widespread Tabellini and his colleagues compiled data from 722 US commuting zones (CZs), or areas where people live to commute to work. They split 25 years... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

these same kinds of inequality data but also provide evidence that child abuse, child poverty, teenage suicide, and violent crime, as well as the number of people living without health insurance, have all... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

investment opportunity that traditional VCs are simply overlooking. In this special episode of Skydeck, recorded live at Fall Reunions, Dodi speaks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about the challenges that female founders still face—and... View Details

17 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

America the Unequal

recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since the 1920s — just before the Great Depression. While recent View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

16,000 people unemployed at the end of April 2021 who received federal benefits through the CARES Act of 2020. The authors analyzed anonymized bank transaction data from January 1 through September 17, 2021. Researchers then compared the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Web

Cloud Storage | Information Technology

Cloud Storage Best Practices Over the past few months, most of us have probably seen a drastic increase in our use of cloud storage solutions. We're being asked more and more to collaborate at a distance, even when it's with people who we have worked side by side with... View Details

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

often referred to in the form of a career pursuit, but for me it is, and has been a way of life. I have lived to see Uganda’s economy transform over the years, with every trip home a constant reminder of how quickly things are changing. I... View Details

Web

Class Profile | MBA

(HBS) learning model, which thrives on the many perspectives and life experiences our students bring to their classes from all over the world. From academic assignments to casual conversations, the unique qualities of individual lives... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

cofounded Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based startup that streamlines the processes for applying for a marriage green card—permission for a US citizen’s non-citizen spouse to live and work permanently in the United States—and US... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Apr 2022
News

Book Smart

Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot of people have to come to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid... View Details