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  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

FIELD 2 in Accra

global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes Leach, who said the team was struck... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social Authors:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 1 in Negocios Inclusivos y Creación de Empleo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2017
  • Response

Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our interpretation thereof. We welcome authors to continue to explore the data for themselves and look forward to the new... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
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  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

we look broadly at Gen Z and the younger generations entering the workforce in the coming years and decade, they prioritize the ability to work from home and the flexibility to be with their families. I don’t want to discount all the... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Maryland professor at the time of his death in 1998, Olson believed that big corporations and industry organizations wielded control over policy. Diffuse groups could not effect policy change because individuals within the group did not have a sufficiently large... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

importing country. We cross check our results in number of ways. Our results, which differ from findings using Penn World Tables data, caution against discounting a role for the higher price of capital goods in explaining the higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

celebrating the 50th anniversary of the admission of women into its MBA program. A few have made it into CEO positions at major corporations. More have founded and lead their own start-ups. They're coming along, in spite of the much talked about obstacles and high... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

families. I don’t want to discount all the benefits they get out of that arrangement. That said, my main skepticism of that preference comes from other research I’ve done on the metaverse, a vision for a 3D internet, and other digital... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Discussion of new model of social enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811053-PDF-ENG Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

we find is that the one tested at a facility with more nearby competitors is more likely to pass. An extra facility within two blocks of another seems to lead to the passing of one out of every 100 cars that shouldn't pass." Pass View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

interviews at the January Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings. Second, the AEA now invites candidates who are still on the market, and employers whose positions are still vacant, to participate in a web-based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition, each country's View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas. Users can search on variables such as emission level or health hazard level, rated from 0 to 9, with 9 being worst. By typing in 7, 8, or 9, they can see highest polluters indicated all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

INK: Maker’s Manual

I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019

year. The subscription model for HBR continued to gain market traction in fiscal 2019; paid circulation grew 6 percent to 340,000—the highest since Harvard Business Review began publication almost a century ago—driven by refined social... View Details