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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
major pension providers where his savings were stowed. It was hard to pry even basic information from them, he says. Instead they channeled his calls through financial advisors, who pitched costly services. The more he prodded for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be incurred, and after participants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Publication:American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009) Abstract We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It' Authors: Daniel Carpenter, David Moss, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett Publication: Chap. 3 in The Making of Good Financial Regulation: Towards a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct research on the View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
participate in the Fellowship and one of the three HBS loan reduction programs for which you qualify: HBS Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program ; HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees Program ; HBS Rock Center Loan... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
real-world perspective.” Leo Corbett (MBA 1975), whose career both in the private and public sectors includes stints in the Social Security Administration and on Wall Street, has served on many boards of directors. He said he enjoyed... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40289 Experimental Evidence on Decision Making Under Information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
products before joining the CPD team in 2003 as a career coach and sector lead for the consumer products industry. Katja brings a wealth of operational knowledge from her experience in logistics and event planning at HBS and a personal... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and customers to run for office by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of education, ed-tech companies, or other education-related... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
whether through the private sector or the public sector, you have to worry that people might get the wrong incentives. Those who are relieved of risk may decide to take on more risk,” he explained. Likewise, when government manages risks,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as investing in... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
publishers, and producers in other sectors of the entertainment industry live by this approach. You might think that spreading resources evenly across product lines is the safest approach, especially because no one seems to know for sure... View Details