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08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

lingering effects—with legal repercussions, such as the recent fall of Roe, and economic consequences. These views could shape beliefs about what women are permitted to achieve, holding them back in the workforce, Becker says. She currently investigates whether View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

leaders to reinforce desired behaviors, the breakdown of consistent communication, and leaders who are overcome by their own sense of importance. We have learned repeatedly that there is a pattern in the actions and activities involved in... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Reinhart, Reinhart, and Trebesch explore the rich history of booms and busts in capital flow by uncovering data from sources going back to 1815. The pattern uncovered by the authors have strong implications on the vulnerabilities of many... View Details

20 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych

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Madison McIlwain

(LCA) professor wrote the original cases on Enron before the company had been convicted of fraud. As he looked back at the work he did, he reflected on the power of combining data with instinct to trust your own intelligence and pattern... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

people return to prior patterns of in-office hours, we have to make sure those who are still constrained by the pandemic don’t face additional penalties. Employers and managers who take their employees’ perspectives and take employees’... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

pattern that the impasse follows, and it's helpful sometimes to break things down. The first phase is the arrival of a crisis. Each person's first response is to keep on plugging. Each impasse is an opportunity to look a little deeper and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

firms and individuals—add up to the aggregate economy. But it turns out that we're not there yet. There's still a great deal we don't fully understand. We see patterns at the macro level that are sometimes hard to disaggregate and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

detailed their findings in the working paper “Discrimination, Disenfranchisement, and African American WWII Military Enlistment,” released in January. The researchers found similar patterns among Japanese Americans. In March 1942, the US... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

but the fact of their existence is inherently geopolitical because it ties countries together in very intimate ways and changes patterns of consumption and dependence. Forman: What’s the impact for companies that have had to get out of... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

promoted women and people of color. The diversifying effect was not as pronounced in mergers that involved companies from different industries. "The disruption allows these patterns to be changed for the better." As part of his study,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Dec 2019
News

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record to the New York Times about a pattern of violent sexual behavior by Simmons. The Los Angeles Times ran its own story that same day with five other accusers. (To date, 18 women have come forward with allegations of rape, sexual... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

2013
Working Paper

International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

Sanders didn’t vote this time around; they just couldn’t get over their dislike for Hillary. One interesting departure from these trends emerged from the voting patterns of women of color—and of black women in particular. Only 26 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

will discuss patterns that explain a large fraction of these failures and what entrepreneurs can do to anticipate patterns and reduce mortality risk. Participants will learn how founders can decide whether... View Details

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

14 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

no longer suffers losses from offering customized services. The menu prices also motivate customers to shift their purchasing and delivery patterns in ways that lower total costs to the benefit of both the company and its customers.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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