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  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately, seeking help and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

clean electricity. This requires not only dramatically accelerating clean energy development and adopting new business models, but also reinventing deeply engrained business processes and culture.” Molly... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I explored several different roles prior to attending HBS. My post-MIT career began at Microsoft, where I spent several years as a Product Manager working... View Details
  • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

on Climate Change by Joan Fitzgerald. I will also dip into Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg, a book about "social infrastructure" more generally, which offers insight into urban green spaces, an achievable climate solution. Klinenberg describes green-promoting... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air TV ads that, by some estimates, more than a third of viewers skip over with digital VCRs or by switching channels or tuning out altogether. New research by HBS professor Thales S. Teixeira offers... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • April 1999 (Revised August 1999)
  • Case

R&B Falcon

R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company makes huge investments in several new state-of-the art $300 million ultra-deep-water drilling rigs. As day rates and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Industry Growth; Mining; Product Marketing; Mining Industry
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  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

experiences. Successful influencers are authentic, have a consistent voice and specific point of view, converse with followers directly, and promote products that work. They build relationships with brands and followers over time and tell... View Details
  • Web

Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

industry boundaries, disrupting value chains, altering industry structure, and raising a new set of strategic choices for competitors. This transformation will unleash a new and even greater wave of... View Details
  • Web

Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Jennifer Wilson DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Boston Photo Imaging Harvard Library Imaging Services A-V PRODUCTION Northern Lights Productions PRINTING Ram Printing, Inc. LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Alabama Department... View Details
  • July 2004 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

H&R Block and "Everyday Financial Services"

By: Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider
H&R Block, the U.S. market leader in tax preparation services, must decide whether to offer financial services to its low-income clients. H&R Block is facing increased competition from branded and nonbranded tax preparers, and the number of returns prepared by the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Income; Taxation; Product Development; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

and conjoint analysis in an entrepreneurial context. The note is therefore suitable for use in MBA, Executive Education, Field Study, or project contexts where the focus is startups, new business development, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

learned from groups in terms of productivity or happiness when it comes to question asking? What do you think? Related Reading: New Insights into Career Development The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the biases underpinning them, suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

  PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front costs in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

Tsao, both of whom held senior positions in the US Department of Justice’s criminal division and now are Harvard Law School lecturers. It explores the topics through cases such as Wells Fargo’s creation of thousands of fake accounts, and the bribes that Walmart and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert