Survey Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
News

Ideas: Books

research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Demographics: ethnic groups (US)

Where can I find U.S. demographic information broken out by ethnic group? U.S. Census Bureau: Population, housing, economic and geographic information searchable by race and ethnicity. The American Community Survey has quick links to data... View Details

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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Hidden Workers: The Case for Caregivers Read the Report Read the Report By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann Companies have long ignored the caregiving responsibilities... View Details

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms. ESG data (public company focus) MSCI ESG View Details

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

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Foreign direct investment: statistics

Data. IMF eLibrary In the uppermost left menu bar, click IMF Data. Click on Data Topic. Under External Sector select Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS). Click on All Tables and select data sets. NOTE: Bilateral data,... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Only about 10 percent of companies in this often unpredictable industry have been severely affected.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2013
News

A Conversation with Dean Nohria

benefit to doing more, as is evident from our recent experience with the School's US Competitiveness Project. In pondering how to better understand the prospects for American competitiveness, we realized that our alumni represent a unique resource. Indeed, their... View Details

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

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

Rivkin and faculty colleagues Allen Grossman, Kevin Sharer, and Michael Porter partnered with the Boston Consulting Group and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research how business could best help improve America's education system.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
News

New Releases

organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Book publishing industry

How can I find industry and market reports & statistics on book publishing? For Industry & Market Research: IBISWorld: Market research reports on the book publishing industry (for US, UK, China and Australia). Statista: Dossiers... View Details

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

Churchwell: What inspired your work analyzing the study of business history around the world? Geoffrey Jones: There were two main factors driving our desire to bring together this survey of the current state of business history worldwide.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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 Mar 2012
News

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

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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