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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy
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  • January 2008
  • Article

Putting Leadership Back into Strategy

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
In recent decades an infusion of economics has lent the study of strategy much needed theory and empirical evidence. Strategy consultants, armed with frameworks and techniques, have stepped forward to help managers analyze their industries and position their companies... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details
  • September 2023
  • Article

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Martin McKee, David Stuckler, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault
We study the impact of public health messages on intentions to vaccinate and vaccination uptakes, especially among hesitant groups. We performed an experiment comparing the effects of egoistic and altruistic messages on COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviour. We... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information
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  • Web

Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (6) Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs... View Details
  • 2022
  • Article

Social Interactivity in Live Video Experiences Reduces Loneliness

By: Benjamin T. Kaveladze, Robert R. Morris, Rosa Victoria Dimitrova-Gammeltoft, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, Judd Antin, Melissa Sandgren and Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt
Background: Loneliness, especially when chronic, can substantially reduce one's quality of life. However, positive social experiences might help to break cycles of loneliness by promoting more prosocial cognitions and behaviors. Internet-mediated live video... View Details
Keywords: Lonelines; Social Connection; Internet-mediated Communication; Experiment; Emotions; Well-being; Interpersonal Communication; Internet
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  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

With their podcast, Alexey Youssef (MBA 2022) and Shad Faraz (MBA 2022) bust the myth that physicians cannot venture outside the traditional career path. In my first year of university, one of my professors hosted a special session on... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy, the theory posits that addictions are not necessarily irrational. Rather, people often willingly engage in a particular behavior, despite knowing that it will increase their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

turbulence. There's been change in the stock market; there's an uncertain economy that seems to be recovering—but we're not quite convinced that it's recovering, we're not sure it won't implode again. There's been turbulence in the world order of a new caliber View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani & Michael Menietti
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Rounding the Bend

need to secure access to responsibly sourced materials to generate new garments to sell. They are very positive about being a part of the cycle, and I think their numbers will increase dramatically in the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

technologies. Iberdrola was an early investor in renewables, positioning itself as a leader driving the electric industry's role in the fight against climate change. In the case, chairman and CEO Ignacio... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

at an urban charter school, where over 95 percent of the 500 students were minorities and more than 75 percent were low-income. They focused their attention on tutors—the employees with the closest and most... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance
  • Article

Buyer-Initiated vs. Seller-Initiated Information Revelation

Sales presentations are the core of the selling process where salespeople provide information to prospects. One challenge is that the amount of information available to be potentially communicated may exceed salespeople's ability to communicate or customers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Information; Quality; Marketing Communications; Game Theory; Sales
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  • 01 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

key moments of crisis in which their self-confidence falters. These in turn can lead them to become more rigid, sabotaging their own performance. A coach’s job is to prevent team members from lapsing into this pattern View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

advantage. As a result, he said, companies should rethink how much they pay for IT given this reduced return on investment. HBR received a large number of positive and critical responses to Carr's piece... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan