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  • July 2010
  • Other Article

Clusters and Entrepreneurship

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This article examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given region-industry.... View Details
Keywords: Economics
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

"skills-first" builds a better workforce 15 JAN 2025 | Managing the Future of Work In taking aim at degree inflation, the corporate-led good jobs coalition looks to boost economic opportunity, address skills gaps, and create a more equitable and inclusive workforce.... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

August 2013 Work and Occupations Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life By: Perlow, Leslie A., and Erin L. Kelly Abstract—Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport to help individuals struggling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Giving - Alumni

. Maximize Your Gift Employer Matching To find out if your company matches employee gifts, use our online search tool. Upon receipt, all matching gifts count toward a donor’s total giving. Recurring Giving Support HBS automatically—on a... View Details
  • Web

Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management

employer about their participation in SVMP. Admitted participants should feel comfortable discussing this opportunity with their employer as we receive consistent feedback that they appreciate and value the... View Details
  • 2016
  • Article

The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details
Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business

Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
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  • 20 May 2020
  • News

How Will COVID-19 Change Demand for Office Space?

  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time that employees spend idle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Hire Talent

Hire Talent Hire Talent Work With Us to Meet Your Hiring Goals Discover HBS talent, engage and recruit current students and alumni, view employment statistics and gain recruiting insights and advice. Post Jobs and Access Resumes Promote... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

asked employers to pay for the training. Women hadn’t. “This was such a lightbulb moment for me,” Lane says. “Women just weren't asking for sponsorship. So, if you never asked your employer, then of course, you have to sponsor it... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption, Chapter 41: The Internet’s Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
This chapter considers how digital culture has changed over the past decade, as the internet has grown its scope and user base. Billions around the world connect daily to an ever-expanding set of applications. A framework for thinking about digital effects is offered:... View Details
Keywords: Digital Culture; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Society
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  • May 18, 2020
  • Other Article

Media Bias? But Not What You Think It Is

By: Frank V. Cespedes
The media are often accused of political bias. But news outlets reflect many political beliefs in a fragmented media environment. However, an almost across-the-board bias is how news media talk about digital business, and the pandemic has exacerbated that bias, which... View Details
Keywords: Bias; Digital Business; Media; Disruption; Health Pandemics
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  • July 2018
  • Article

Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design

By: Alvin E. Roth
Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must accomplish to enable different kinds of markets. Marketplaces can have varying degrees of success,... View Details
Keywords: Labor Market; Pricing; Market Design; Markets; Economics
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  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

BalanceYounger workers are rejecting the idea of sticking with one employer for the long haul and are instead finding happiness by job-hopping and creating dramatically different boundaries with work. In a new book, Christina M. Wallace... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Fellowships - Business History

research proposal online no later than December 1, 2025. Letters of reference can be submitted online through interfolio or by email to bhi@hbs.edu with the applicant's name in the subject line. We are an equal opportunity employer and... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Book

HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

Work-Life Balance Younger workers are rejecting the idea of sticking with one employer for the long haul and are instead finding happiness by job-hopping and creating dramatically different boundaries with work. In a new book, The... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research offers lessons for policymakers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne