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  • September 2009
  • Article

Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

By: Nava Ashraf
Using an experimental design I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with... View Details
Keywords: Intra-household; Bargaining; Experiments; Economic Development; Saving; Governance Controls; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Household; Gender
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  • February 2004 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

George Barker

By: John A. Davis
George Barker, the 40-year-old CEO of his family's commercial real estate design and development firm, must deal with the unsatisfactory performance of his brother Peter, who is also in the business. Although Peter's performance is upsetting to George, George feels... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Family and Family Relationships; Real Estate Industry
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  • February 2000 (Revised November 2000)
  • Case

Women.com

By: Myra M. Hart and Sarah S. Khetani
Entrepreneurs Ellen Pack and Marleen McDaniel have founded a women's online network and watched it grow from an online subscription service in 1992 to one of the best known, widely visited women's networks on the web in 1999. While the company's vision has remained... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Networks; Transition; Web Services Industry
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  • 05 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

help them to translate and transfer information about potential international trade decisions," Cohen explains. "We thought maybe the people who have ethnic links back to these countries—immigrants or other people who have a former View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

research by Harvard colleagues claiming that the majority of malpractice lawsuits result primarily from poor attitude and failed personal relationships rather than medical mistakes.) Perhaps hiring for attitude and then training for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

note examines the relationship between video gaming devices (console, handhelds, mobile and PC) and gaming software development. The impact of broadband, wireless technologies and other innovations are also presented. Purchase this note: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

relationships to sustain them. Transitions also are times when small differences in a new leader's actions can have disproportionate impacts on results. Everyone is straining to take the leader's measure and people are forming opinions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

relationships and other variables. 5. Applications: Abstraction’s highest level For end users, the application layer opens up worlds of possibilities. Applications represent the ultimate abstraction—they allow users to perform specific... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

Career & Professional Development Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager As the Career & Professional Development Employer Relations team managing relationships with manufacturing companies, Kristen and Renee are here... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 20 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

enjoyed the chance to build and deepen relationships with over one hundred diverse, local leaders, from Black and Brown business owners whose innovation and resilience is inspiring, to corporate executives authentically trying to figure... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

that I don't believe you build in a traditional corporate internship. My goal by the end of the program is that these 50 students feel more confident to enter the real world, and have new relationships that will demonstrate the power of... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

opportunity to represent HBS in markets around the world by building new relationships and connecting students with employment opportunities. More recently, the Energy and Cleantech industries were added to my employer relations and... View Details
  • Web

Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2014
  • News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

a conflict of business models—an organization can either kill people and break things, or help people and make things. To do both well is impossible,” he says. The transitory nature of the US military presence also made it hard to create meaningful View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 07 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

to transition her career functionally, but also built a powerful network of support. “HBS promises to deliver a ‘transformational experience,’ and I can certainly say that was true for me,” she said. “Long after you forget the names of the companies you studied, the... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

to shorten development lead times and increase capacity; it can facilitate access to skills, capabilities, and intellectual property (IP) that a firm does not possess internally; and it can allow a firm to acquire relationships and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

has suggested that it happened in the early 1970s, when the postwar order of relationship capitalism showed its first signs of impending collapse. Jensen pointed to the publication in the New York Times Magazine in 1970 of an article on... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • Web

Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Cunningham When I was at American Express, I thought that business school would b... Connections & Relationships Stephen Chan MBA/MPP 2009 Background People always tell you that business school isn't just abou... Summer Fellowship Enables... View Details