Time Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of leadership in the U.S. over View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

unaffected countries finds a substantial portfolio reallocation towards the former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

were launched in 2004; expressions of interest were invited in June 2007, but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) Taught For The First Time The case elicited a broad range of student... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

Icarus, which F. Scott Fitzgerald uses to describe Monroe Stahr, may be the most famous example. We can understand that Icarus was carried away in an exuberant moment, but what about the men and women who have the time to see what they... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

and Sustain a Movement In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and sports—at a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

University's most influential professors and the author of numerous books and publications including On Competition (HBSP 1998) and co-author of Can Japan Compete? (Perseus Press, 2000), told the audience that it's time to look at inner... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

stirred in the country’s public opinion. Financial markets and bookmakers seem to indicate that Remain is the more likely outcome, but the very last poll of polls by the Financial Times pointed to a chilling neck-to-neck between the two... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

benefited because health insurers could only charge them three times more than younger enrollees. The AHCA proposes that this could increase to five times. Therefore, younger and healthier individuals may see their costs go down, while... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

How do you reach the person on the street?" says Khanna, who was raised in India and still visits the country several times a year. "The case is a pretty dramatic illustration of the difficulties in doing that, but it also makes... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

the European “lessons” on immigration. “Compare (Germany) with France, which provides time off for parental leave and financial incentives to have children, and unsurprisingly they have plenty of kids ... and are not so keen on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

worldwide. The organization is at a crossroads as it attempts to reach the ambitious goal of serving 10% of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty by 2023, while at the same time developing the local NGO... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

creating for the corporation—which was actually very abstract and difficult to do. I left the for-profit sector in 1992 and spent some time involved with different nonprofits, getting a contextual view of what was possible. That led to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

in places with greater poverty and lower levels of economic development. Violence is higher in locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests. We find weaker evidence that caste divisions in society are correlated with the... View Details