Child Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

availability, having the right product in the right place at the right time with the right label and of course with the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

that, although this approach greatly simplifies the life of the researcher, it is incomplete and distorting. We make an analogy between new business formation and child rearing: starting the task requires only a moment of enthusiasm, but... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing information yourself. Ask the right... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2002
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Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

magazine's fifty most powerful women in corporate America for the past two years, smiled and nodded knowingly. "Treat the appointment with your family like you would treat the appointment with your CEO," she counseled. "Put it View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

is far more complex. Despite years of social change, the label “bad mother” still looms large for women who struggle with guilt and sense judgment if they’re late to pick up their child from day care. Fathers face their own painful choice... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-099.pdf Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh By: Mangla, Akshay... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

the entity and even then questions about who they report to, how they are appraised/evaluated, what powers and decision rights they have and how trust and functionality can be cultivated with such a reporting line sounds... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

women in the room who said, "I'm ready." Their last child was going off to school in the fall. "I want the tools to figure out what I'm qualified to do, and what I want to do. How do I locate the View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

12 Nov 2015
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Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

“I’m going to make some humble suggestions. I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV either. I have very little credibility here,” he joked. “But I do know something about consumers and consumer behavior.” Quelch recalled how different grocery shopping was in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

15 Jun 2020
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A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

people, including those who've been recently unemployed, to create a cohort of testers, screeners, and contact tracers that could help build the infrastructure to respond to the crisis and deal with some of the unemployment that we are seeing View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

10 Feb 2003
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Women at Work

"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th Annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference held at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

02 Sep 2013
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The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

26 Jan 2004
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How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

group! There are organizations that can provide important links in almost every major metropolitan area, so if a women really wants to raise venture capital, and she's in the right industry, she has the View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details

25 May 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic development specialists also attest to the importance of health care in determining productivity. The... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

19 Sep 2012
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Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

them to try new things when they need to," Lerner says. Lerner also makes a case for corporate venture capital programs, in which companies fund outside efforts to develop projects that complement their goals. A poster child for this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

like we got X donations, and we took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

panic.—Edward Degas, artist But Tony is living the life of a wind-up toy, going through the motions of being a good father, a loving son, a good husband, a charming politician, and a resolute friend. He can say just the right things in... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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