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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and inequality in the workplace. Their... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
Fellows. The Leadership Fellows program is designed so that recent graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. M – MS/MBA. The MS/MBA is... View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
studios. I had been convinced that this internship was an exciting opportunity, but it still felt like my side passion project, versus my “career search.” Long story short, I ended up receiving the offer. I wouldn’t know what park I would be placed at until after... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge opportunity for the right business.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
willing and able buyer, a valuable “exit” option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. On the other hand, some groups’ close connections to a nation’s power structure may serve as a barrier to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard Stenzel (both MBA 1992)... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
contract with the Iraqi government. In addition, the executives in London and Beijing needed to decide whether it made sense to exercise the option they had just purchased. Would they be throwing good money after bad by investing in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
preparation offices were given the option to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds in addition to existing Block savings products. The fraction of filers who did any savings at the tax-site was 8.5 times higher at these treatment sites offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
in-person operations, sinking demand to near zero. Professional services businesses have fared better, but they have not been spared—just 63 percent say they could weather a four-month public health lockdown. [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
exciting opportunity, but it still felt like my side passion project, versus my “career search.” Long story short, I ended up receiving the offer. I wouldn’t know what park I would be placed at until after accepting the offer, but options... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
company, Eva Cosmetics, dedicated most of its capacity towards manufacturing alcohol-based disinfectants, gloves, and masks primarily to support public and private hospitals and doctors. We also recognized that the availability of... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
during the late l950s. Through most of that decade, the Commission had adopted a laissez-faire stance toward cable, on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the industry, and that, in any case, extending the reach of broadcast signals served the View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne