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REITs (real estate investment trusts)

REITs, and publicly-traded real estate companies. S&P NetAdvantage: S&P's REIT Industry Survey provides a good overview of real estate investment trusts. Also available under Markets > Industry View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Brazil

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Brazil? Industry and market research Passport Click on Search on the upper left side of the main screen to get started. Locate the industry of interest and then... View Details

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

cooking the books, keep promises, respect and protect human rights, and refrain from bribery. The research team created a codex of widely endorsed standards based on these similarities. Phase 2 of the project focused on developing a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Geography in the Advanced Search. Nexis Uni – more access to thousands of local newspapers. Go to Menu > All Sources> Limit by Category > News and Jurisdiction. Citizen Satisfaction Surveys Google search... View Details

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Investment management: industry resources

& Poor’s NetAdvantage- Capital Markets Industry Survey IBISWorld- Portfolio Management, Securities Brokering Company Overviews Create lists of competitors, potential employers, and people based on industry, geography, size,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details

Keywords: April White

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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiatives 137 Competitiveness Institutes 819 Cluster Initiatives 925 National & Regional Competitiveness Initiatives Knowledge Development 462 Cases 993 Research Projects 157 Cross-Affiliate Collaborations The MOC Affiliate network... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

research findings, including highlights from an unprecedented HBS alumni survey on competitiveness, are presented in a special March issue of the Harvard Business Review. “The extensive data we’ve reviewed... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study published by the National Bureau of... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

Summing Up Questions raised in this month's column about the possibility of an era of marketing productivity based on innovative research techniques evoked a number of skeptical comments. However, in defense of such techniques, B. V.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2010
Working Paper

The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk

We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States

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01 Mar 2015
News

Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few places on earth where I could boldly pursue my work in the way that I have.” Neeley’s... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study published by the National Bureau of... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2005
News

The Nature of Change

history, but it’s also about today. And it gives me the opportunity to ask the students questions about an institution — HBS — that they’re quite familiar with by that point.” The data on the Class of 1949 is drawn from a survey by View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; The Class the Dollars Fell On; case; capstone course; John Shad (MBA 1949); class of 49; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the economic and social contributions of Harvard University... View Details

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details