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  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

In the wake of COVID-19, organizations around the world quickly made changes to how they got work done, including managing summer internships. For many organizations, that meant creating remote internship View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • March 1999 (Revised October 2009)
  • Background Note

Deferred Compensation

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
Briefly discusses two of the major tax doctrines--constructive receipt and economic benefits--which govern the structure of deferred compensation contracts. Some business context is provided and some implications are noted. View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry
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  • November 1987 (Revised March 1988)
  • Case

Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983

By: David B. Yoffie
In 1983 the National Machine Tools Builder Association was predicting a declining market for the United States and rising imports. Machine tool manufacturers had to decide if they should ask the U.S. government for help, and if they did, which administrative channels... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Machinery and Machining; Government and Politics; Law; Production; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; Germany; United States
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  • January 2001
  • Case

Merck Global Health Initiatives (B): Botswana

By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and James Weber
The case series focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation,... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Private Sector; Public Sector; Alliances; Problems and Challenges; Africa; Botswana
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  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

assess situations and connect at-risk individuals with support services as needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before... View Details
  • 15 May 2015
  • Blog Post

How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS

Though HBS is based in Boston, the MBA program is inherently a global experience. Traveling to an emerging market is part of the first year curriculum, over 70 countries are represented in View Details
  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
  • 2018
  • Introduction

Introduction

By: Sophus A. Reinert
BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with an Alabama assembly facility. In January 2009 it had just completed the construction of its first LCS, but the global economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42946 Technology, Innovation and Economic Growth in Britain Since 1870 Author: Tom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

you to that goal." With that in mind, Merton and a team of financial engineers created SmartNest, an individually tailored pension program that requires just a few simple inputs from employees before... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

  Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2007 (Revised February 2008)
  • Case

Partners in Health: The PACT Project

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Josh Friedman
Partners in Health is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people in some of the poorest regions of the world, including Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, and Peru. In 1998, PIH established a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal, says Harvard Business School professor Lynda M.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Faculty & Research

estimation and program evaluation. Citation Related Cole, Shawn, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen, and Aparna Krishna. "Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

including a Master of Forestry from Yale. I had some exposure to economics and business through my work, but I knew an HBS program would likely set me on the course for... View Details
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Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

verbal communications skills. All applicants are required to submit either a GRE or GMAT score. Additionally, students who have not received a degree from a 4-year English-speaking institution must also submit a TOEFL or IELTS score. All View Details
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Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details