Health, Social Assistance - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

course of four weeks, representatives at two Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites offered filers the option of splitting their refunds, depositing all or some of their refund into an existing or new savings account with the Bank... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

led to the collapse of the Global Alliance. That left fiber as "the infrastructure or the infrastructure" with wireless—"connectivity with mobility"—existing alongside it, but without the high bandwidth services available through the AFN. Jean Camp, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

Communist Party, which had ruled China since 1949. Xi inherited a country far more unequal than the one that Mao Zedong, Communist China's first leader, had left behind in 1978. The growth of markets had made China much wealthier but also generated many View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

badly. Other apparent areas of interest in the last 12 months included corporate social responsibility, marketing techniques, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lady Gaga. Here are the Top 10 most-read articles and 10 most-read working papers... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. “If a CEO can trust his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making” "The bottom line is that whoever is in charge of the acquisitions and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

Positive values are a fixture on corporate mission statements these days. But when leaders fail to live up to the values they've articulated, it's a recipe for employee cynicism, according to Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson. Cha, an View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and fellowships for his work from the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

for its carbon performance. Such ratings and rankings are largely based on companies' direct carbon footprint. For example, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJIS), which evaluates the economic, environmental, and social performances of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

is ample opportunity in the US to make more use of social media influencers who live stream their in-person shopping experience, an increasingly common practice in Asia that can be adapted. Andy Wu (@AndyWuAndyWu) is an View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

assistant professor of business administration. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

saw this effect in the modeling world, but I wanted to test it in the real world,” says Chung, an assistant professor. “The best way to do that was to perform a field experiment.” For real-world proof of how quotas affect sales... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

to explore the impact of a specific media source on the business landscape. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms," says Jonas Heese, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Social Change By: Eesley, Charles, K.A. DeCelles, and Michael Lenox Abstract—We examine the variety of activist groups and their tactics in demanding firms’ social change. While extant work does not usually... View Details