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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by rigid practices and rules View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard Vietor sheds light on ways in which governments can best set direction and provide a healthy climate for a nation's economic development and profitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
was highly constrained by the Great Powers of Europe. This resulted in considerable distortions on the economy and society. For example, special legal privileges were given to Europeans and non-Muslim minorities, which was one reason why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
challenge for firms based in suburban industrial parks. To stay relevant, they need to tap into urban hotbeds, but setting up operations there can be extremely expensive. In his work on global talent flows, Harvard Business School’s Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
businesses should set aside time to ask themselves what widely held assumptions—in their lives, organization, or industry—they might benefit from challenging or discarding. “The impact of this simple exercise,” he says, “can be... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
considerable research attention from several HBS faculty members, including Bob Hayes and Kim Clark. And as developing economies took off, “students could no longer be counted on to spend their entire professional careers in the United... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Firms" presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
the effects of changes in comparability, we examine changes to information asymmetry for firms domiciled in the U.K. Domestic standards in the U.K. that preceded IFRS adoption are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008); accordingly, we use the U.K. as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
soldiers), but also other individuals from contracting and spreading the virus. The effective use of face masks can prevent the spread of the virus, while not fully shutting down the economy. A public’s mass adoption of face masks requires View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
quantity and quality. Performance data was always at the heart of those efforts, but it wasn't a leading factor. Q: What is your primary focus? Morino: Performance really starts with the leadership of the organization. I didn't set out to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
807-057 Describes a set of financing issues confronting a rapidly growing company that uses "Word-of-Mouth" marketing techniques in promoting research, new products, or services. The company proposes to View Details