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  • June 2016
  • Article

Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment
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  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare View Details
  • Web

Events - Business & Environment

Jan 14 Agribusiness Seminar Reception Organizers: Executive Education 14 JAN 2025 | In Person Open to the MBA Students The HBS Agribusiness Seminar is an executive education program that has been held for more than six decades, drawing... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

Policymakers need access to real-time information on so that these models can be properly parameterized.” You Might Also Like: Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal? Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

two important forms of speaking up. These results can enable managers to solicit ideas from frontline workers that lead to performance improvement. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-005.pdf "Learning from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

The Baby Business: How Markets are Changing the Future of Birth

By: Debora L. Spar
It is difficult to conceive of the child as commerce. For even at the start of the 21st century, we like to believe that some things remain beyond both markets and science; that there are some things that money can't buy. In economic terms, these things are defined as... View Details
  • January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Forge New Connections to Each Other Build and deepen relationships with a powerful global network of alumni who share your values and experiences. Stay connected, collaborate, View Details
  • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
Deborah Lovich, Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to join the firm's Executive Committee as its youngest member and only current woman, as well as just the second woman in its history. Encouraged by her mentors,... View Details
Keywords: Work/life Balance; Work/family Balance; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Personal Development and Career
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  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

competitive as well as customer pressure. This demands confidence, not bravado; astute analysis not raw aggression; and requires careful, empathetic focus on the other players in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • 03 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen & Kari L. Granger
  • 14 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

my personal Judaism. Victor Kamenker, CFO I joined JSA to meet Jewish classmates and to have a strong sense of community on campus—something I felt that I had been lacking after undergrad. My Judaism is very... View Details

    Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

    Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
    • 2019
    • Book

    Operations in an Omnichannel World

    By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
    The world of retailing has changed dramatically in the past decade. Sales originating at online channels have been steadily increasing, and even for sales transacted at brick-and-mortar channels, a much larger fraction of sales is affected by online channels in... View Details
    Keywords: Omnichannel; Omnichannel Retail; Retail; Operations; Management; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 30 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

    are told that great entrepreneurs are persistent. So, if you throw in the towel, you must not be a great entrepreneur.”  It’s hard to let others down. Letting go of an ill-conceived idea becomes much harder when dozens of employees rely on it to feed their families.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • Article

    Algorithms Need Managers, Too

    By: Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan
    Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Predictive Analytics; Management; Big Data; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 09 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

    “Impulsivity is the opposite of understanding facts.” As he would explain during our conversation, Joe lives according to the following principle: whether in your career or your personal life, understand the consequences – View Details
    • August 2020
    • Article

    Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

    By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
    Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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    • 31 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

    socializing; keeping team members informed about stressful situations; addressing subordinates' negative feelings; and disclosing personal information); (3) recognizing good work privately View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 27 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

    Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George