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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
during military conflicts. As countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom honor their veterans this month, Harvard Business School Professor Robert Simons reflects on how service... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
competitors' anticipated actions. Using new entrants into the United States from 1985 to 1994, we find that firms favor locations with academic innovative activity. Other results highlight differences in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
consideration to how they deliver important information during earnings calls. Between The Lines The research team studied 11,436 conference call transcripts by 4,540 firms based in 41 different countries outside the United View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
that area. The real question is, when are these different methods appropriate, and under what circumstances? In international development there's been a lot of experimentation that hasn't quite made its way to the United View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had granted restricted... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical firms headquartered in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
education system that's very unequal across the United States. I you're born into a low-income household or you're born into poverty, it is dramatically harder for you to reach your full potential in the American education system. “Teach... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
for jobs if government doesn’t invest in the forthcoming change, change will be painfully slow if at all.” Should we be addressing the next jobs crisis now? What do you think? Original Column It’s clear that the focus of the new United... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
take their organizations beyond that point in terms of size? Phil Clark posed the question, "Is there a 'right size' for a company?" If so, how do we know? How many companies that you can think of are right-sized? What do you think? Original Article... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
care field saw 15 to 20% of the capacity come out of the market during the COVID period. So that shrinkage in supply has made it even more difficult for working parents to find high quality options for child care. And so the only remedy to the challenge that exists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
actions. What else was fueling the insanity of the Mutiny club beyond drugs? Farzad: I didn't realize the extent to which our kind of misadventure in Cuba, the United States, what happened between years 1959 in 1962, led to the cocaine... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
violations Heese, who researches corporate misconduct, decided to examine company violations in light of the rapid deterioration of the newspaper industry. The circulation of local newspapers in the United View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational expertise of H-E-B's long history... View Details