Publications

2016
Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu

Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance

SSRN

1999
Book

Internet University Vol. 1: Your Guide to Online College Courses; Vol. 2: Liberal Arts; Vol. 3: Technology; Vol. 4: Graduate Studies; Vol. 5: Business School Edition

By: D. Quinn Mills

Keywords: Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Business Education

1987
Other Unpublished Work

Opening the Window: Needs Analysis and Long Term Effort to Pay for College

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Higher Education; Human Needs; Cost

2009
Article

The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting

By: Walter Friedman

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Higher Education; Problems and Challenges; Economics

November 2017
Case

Outrageous Ambition: Duke University

By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang

Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details

Educators

January 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Teaching Note

Competition & Strategy: Course Structure TN

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

Provides an overview of the Competition & Strategy course, a first course on business strategy, as taught at Harvard Business School during the summer of 1999. Describes the role of the course in the overall MBA curriculum, the superstructure of the course, and the... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Education Industry

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

higher income, where there might be more of an incentive due to higher returns. Only about half of those censured for abuses, however, were fired. And half of those found a job at another firm within the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

1987
Book

Changing Alliances: The Harvard Business School Project on the Auto Industry and the American Economy

By: Davis Dyer, Malcolm S. Salter and Alan M. Weber

Keywords: Change; Alliances; Higher Education; Projects; Economy; Auto Industry; United States

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

multinational firms hold cash in their foreign subsidiaries because of the tax costs associated with repatriating foreign income. Consistent with this hypothesis, firms that face higher repatriation tax burdens hold View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2016
Case

Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley

By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby

UC Berkley, long known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and costs have increased steadily in recent years, the school, which has been fiercely proud of its public... View Details

Educators

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Collegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

Article

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make It a Good Investment

By: Joseph B. Fuller

Keywords: Cost Management; Higher Education; Investment Return

1997
Article

University versus Corporate Patents: A Window on the Basicness of Invention

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: Higher Education; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures

2023
White Paper

Delivering on the Degree: The College to Jobs Playbook

By: David Deming, Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Kerry McKittrick, Ali Epstein and Emma Catalfamo

Keywords: Job Search; Personal Development and Career; Higher Education; Employment