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  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

suggest that carbon tariffs improve the efficacy of emissions regulation, enabling it to reduce global emissions in many settings in which it would otherwise fail to do so. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42912 Task View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

There are a number of ways to pursue an interest in nonprofit organizations while at HBS.  I have personally explored this interest through joining the Board Fellows and Social Enterprise Consulting Club, undertaking an Independent View Details

    Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

    Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 18, 2016

    Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Oct 2024
    • In Practice

    Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

    from zero-based budgeting, we start with a clean slate and intentionally select activities, projects, and commitments rather than using the previous year as the default. Then, before we lock everything in, we take a step back and ask if... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

    By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
    In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Early Childhood Education; Investment Return; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
      • 2022
      • White Paper

      The Emerging Degree Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O'Kane, Matthew Sigelman and Bledi Taska
      Employers are resetting degree requirements in a wide range of roles, dropping the requirement for a bachelor’s degree in many middle-skill and even some higher-skill roles. This reverses a trend toward degree inflation in job postings going back to the Great... View Details
      Keywords: Skills; Workforce; Talent; Human Resource Management; Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources
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      • Blog

      Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case

      Every executive who applies to the HBS Advanced Management Program (AMP) is likely facing some business challenges that keep them up at night. Issues on their mind might be anything from a tough strategic decision or distressing financial View Details
      • Research Summary

      Bricks and Clicks: The Effect of Store Assortment on E-tail Format (with R. Lal and E. Ofek)

      An often neglected aspect in existing studies of the Internet selling process is the high volume of product returns. Such returns reflect a major logistic expenditure on behalf of companies that sell over the net. The problem is reduced when consumers shop in physical... View Details
      • 06 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

      from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students for each of their two years in the MBA Program. Beginning with the Class of 1990, 267... View Details
      • Research Summary

      The American Chief Executive from 1850 to 2000

      By: Richard S. Tedlow
      Richard S. Tedlow's research explores changes in the leadership strategies, styles, and backgrounds of corporate chief executive officers in the United States over the past century and a half. This project has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The... View Details
      • Program

      Real Estate Management Program

      succeed in a complex market by taking a holistic approach to real estate projects and addressing challenges from a cross-disciplinary perspective. As you examine sustainability goals, design considerations, financing strategies, industry... View Details
      Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate
      • Program

      Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

      strategy project between modules. Application Review To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's... View Details
      • October 2009 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative

      By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
      The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

      By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
      Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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      • 17 Mar 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: March 17

      differences between projects funded by the crowd alone, and those that were selected by both the crowd and experts. Our findings suggest that crowdfunding can play an important role in complementing expert... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 02 Feb 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

      capital firms, the boards of directors, and the outcomes of these start-ups. “One lesson that emerges from our analysis is to find an experienced (and successful) partner!” One current project examines the value of boards of directors in... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 14 Nov 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: November 14, 2006

      leveraging already standardized data and work flows. What's most important, though, is that they look beyond the individual IT projects they select to the broader picture of how IT is likely to affect the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      Crinetics Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CRNX), among others. Earlier in her career Dr. Chang was a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting and a member of the Healthcare Practice. Dr. Chang trained clinically in internal medicine and... View Details