Public Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Public Administration; Public Administration; Public Administration; Public Administration; Public Administration

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Morgan Roberts Delivers "Almost Free" at 2021 Gender and Work Symposium Harvard Business School Robert Livingston Presents at The 2021 HBS Gender and Work Symposium Harvard Business School Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Robert Livingston draws from his recent View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

public forums to what they read. So your strategy to engage this segment would be to de-emphasize blogging and underscore forums, ratings, and reviews. Social networks should be monitored to collect the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

realistic. They need to engage the investors in the excitement of the business concept, but they also need to convey their commitment to the enterprise. The good news is that Chase and Danielson did make a compelling case, were able to... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

seeking investment at a later stage of a company's financing, when they enjoy geographic proximity to the start-up in question, and when they are a specialist in the start-up's industry. Under these low-risk circumstances, a firm starts small by View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

schools. How HBR Engages Questions About Race How HBR Engages Questions About Race FEB 07 2020 | By: Amy Bernstein Harvard Business Review’s Amy Bernstein presents on her role as an HBR editor and the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

sure that point-of-sale checks are done correctly. SC: That’s an especially exciting example because we taught a module on public markets engagement in the spring, and then by the fall we had a new case... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

are stronger than in Colombia and I want to continue learning before I eventually go back to my country,” she explained. Specifically, healthcare and government engagement were two areas of interest, but Llano was open to exploring... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses The MOC Affiliate Networ... MOC Affiliate Network Impact Affiliates, Faculty, ALUMNI & Courses 124 Active Affiliates 786 Faculty... View Details

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

(reported revenues before they were earned) or otherwise manipulated the books to make their earnings look better, were more likely to cast a call. "If you've been engaging in somewhat shady activity in your accounting books, the last... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

power in the U.S., and it would be impossible to learn policy at Harvard without a comprehensive understanding of that reality. As Professor Muhammad has said, until this point, HKS was wrong “to hand over Master of Public Policy degrees... View Details

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Using Oral History in Research - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Using Oral History in Research DEC 15th (9am - 12pm) EST The Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) project has been conducting in-depth interviews with top business leaders in emerging markets since 2008. These are hosted on our View Details

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

better informed politically and had more political discussions with their neighbors during the electoral campaign, making them more civically engaged overall. Increasing the immigrant vote In the second study Pons performed, particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Public Relations; Public Relations

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Holly Fetter Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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Jerren Chang Archives | Social Enterprise