Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

argument that if you want to motivate immigrants you need a more targeted campaign—that’s often the way it’s done in the United States for example with Latinos, but in France it’s not possible to do this,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

in the process, they learned that of the more than 230,000 K–12 school leaders in the United States, half had no access to quality professional development, either because programs weren’t offered nearby or were cost prohibitive. To... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change

poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students. Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Books

Practice Kaplan. He notes that such questions might include: Do I state my vision and priorities clearly? Does the way I spend my time enable me to achieve my top priorities? Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean Nohria and select faculty travel to alumni... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2009
News

Hope for Reform Dims

declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2022
News

Lesson Plans

Asia, but it wasn’t being reported in the United States that literally countries were shutting down their schools physically. And I said, wow, if this thing actually spreads, this could happen everywhere,... View Details

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

factors, there appears to have been quite substantial changes for the better over the past several decades. [NOTE] We will briefly discuss two of these determinants of the long-run supply of venture capital in the United States, where... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

26 Aug 2009
Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

new cars. The program proved so popular that inventories of the qualifying cars soon dwindled, further boosting the dealers' negotiating leverage and unit profit margin. “Why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-107.pdf Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

over the last decade, both within the company he started and more broadly in city and state initiatives. In 2016, when Cicero needed to expand its office space, he chose a site in an underdeveloped neighborhood on Salt Lake City’s west... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling the needs of your target market. It’s... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

15 Dec 2011
News

An HBS gift guide

world. Get our take in the December Bulletin. Previous Next Chocolates for a cause Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) Founder, Sweetriot “Social change is embedded in our business model. Every unit we sell impacts a farmer, a plant worker, or an... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the... View Details