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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
holding them accountable?” Gehl said she and Porter wondered. “What’s going on?” Porter, who studies economic development and competitiveness, said the idea to examine politics through the lens of business stemmed from his experience... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
tutoring to financial support of Pediatric AIDS, The Children's Defense Fund, and Action for Children. It is likely that the Columbus corporations' interest in benefiting children stems from the influence of Dave Thomas, the founder of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14085 PublicationsPublic Action for Public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
and benefits and that bundled legislation is valued more than the sum of its parts. Study 2 shows this finding stems from a diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains. Study 3 extends our findings to policies involving costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
best what their clients need. Phillips says nine of the club’s Community Partners client organizations for 2021 are in line with its DEI objectives, including Access Education Systems, a STEM program for inner city youth; the Alliance for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
we are willing to contribute ideas in the workplace or try to compete for a promotion,” Coffman says. “If talented women in STEM aren’t confident, they might not even look at those fields in the first place. It’s all about how good we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
compounds owned by struggling biotechs. Williams usually calls Tracy once or twice a day, with about a dozen emails back and forth daily. Things are moving. Long term, the Secklers see stem cell or gene replacement therapy wiping out the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
higher-end goods at Target. In the 1990s, its growth stemmed mainly from acquisitions, not all of which proved beneficial in the long term. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718510-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
are witnessing the dawn of a new model of corporate power: The coordination of actions and decisions on the front lines now appears to stem from widely shared values and a sturdy platform of common processes and technology, not from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-104.pdf Elections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
suggests this positive effect may stem from a desire to avoid shame. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-073.pdf Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
1999. Porten's interest in The Broad Foundation stemmed from her own commitment to education, coupled with the desire "to work with an organization that was really trying to change things." Her internship included working in the field... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
There has been much recent discussion about which objective the United States should pursue—democracy for them vs. security for us—in instances where the two seem at odds. The problem with this debate is that it stems from an imprecise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
military members wanted to connect with one another. At the time, there was no central place on the Internet for them to do so. Military.com was born. For Beck, the opportunity she saw stemmed from both her professional and her personal... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51972 Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent By: Shu, Pian Abstract— Using data on MIT bachelor's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
difficult to compare, alternatives. A second project stems from my MBA course, "The Marketing of Innovations." It deals with the question of why consumers don't buy. In particular, it makes the argument that consumers overvalue... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
competition and average management quality (part of which stems from the larger covariance between management with firm size as competition strengthens); and (iii) a rise (fall) in the level (dispersion) of management with firm age. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise we'll call course research. Conclusions such as those that Shugan and others have reached stem from misconceptions about the relationship of research, theory, case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace