Family Functioning And Support - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or decamped to a View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

also increase slightly. Our panel results are supported by a broadband regression discontinuity analysis. Politics does not seem to play a role in allocating funding. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

labor, with Walmart being a prime example. Three remedies are often proposed for the problem: 1. Legislated increases in the minimum wage 2. New laws that support unions and raise their bargaining power 3.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

IAS GAAP. All of this suggests that the market supports the push for a global set of standards—the issue is what that set of standards should really look like. Q: Has anything you observed in the last few years about accounting standards... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

excerpt, Thomas describes the key factors that made the initiative a success. Any major corporate change will succeed only if a few key factors are in place: strong support from company leaders, an employee base that is fully engaged with... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Estimates produced using this instrument indicate that 10% greater foreign investment is associated with 2.6% greater domestic investment, and 10% greater foreign employee compensation is associated with 3.7% greater domestic employee... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

alienated from the organization and may leave. The lack of policies to support employees' personal lives in this new model, such as high-quality on-site day care, also has negative consequences. Remote... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

than six years as governor and was boosted by family connections. Mukunda's findings support the LFT theory that unfiltered presidents often turn up at the high View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

environmental ratings and environmental performance of more than 650 firms in the United States. We find empirical evidence that supports our hypotheses and present... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

Michael Roberto: My parents are Italian immigrants, and my family back in Tuscany and the Campania region of Italy continue to make their own wine. Therefore, I've always had... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

patient has to desire empowerment, the patient has to have the ability to take on the responsibility of empowerment, and the patient needs a support mechanism, such as family... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

Summing Up The predominance of opinions expressed a concern about what happened in Microsoft's dispute with the Government and laid the blame at the feet of both the company's leadership and of board members... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

likely voters. He built a coalition that energized young, first-time voters and registered thousands of previous non-voters. His organization encouraged early voting by Democrats to build well-publicized poll leads View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

(through outsourcing), and give their jobs meaning, then overall size will cease to be much of an issue." Shadreck Salli agreed, commenting that "Any entity is designed to function at different... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

margin. Between 70 and 90 percent of the country's flora, for example, was endangered by 2008, and by 2013, around 80 percent of its major rivers were so degraded that they no longer View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

that the medium-to-long term is also crucial to prepare for post-crisis support and growth. 3. Practice the OODA Loop The OODA loop that Agile practitioners often refer to emerged from military warfare, made... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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