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29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

likely to spend extra time on a project with team members than those not eligible for extra rewards. Willing to give up happiness to spend time with colleagues. The research team also studied US Census time-use survey data between 2010... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

marketing communications should not ignore or turn a deaf ear to the crisis, but rather make sure to recognize it and acknowledge the impact it was having on people’s lives. Consumers also warned against brands taking advantage of the crisis. Consumers’ View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2020
Working Paper

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media

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25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

survey business owners across the United States. They found that even though foreign-born people make up about 13 percent of the US population, immigrant entrepreneurs create some 25 percent of new companies, and that number continues to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. Part-time workers are heterogeneous, with a variety of attributes that... View Details

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

increased by 200 percent in the past eight years, rising from 3.5 percent of marketing budgets in 2009 to 10.5 percent in February 2017, according to The CMO Survey 2017. And that upward climb is expected to continue: Marketers say they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

27 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

yes or no with the push of a button. After exiting the machine, participants filled out a survey to rate how much they had liked each product, on a scale of 1 to 7. The researchers focused on brain activity at the moment participants saw... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

05 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

provided more substantial coverage than what I previously had from school versus on the job. Emily Stebbins External Vendor Data Relationship Manager, Index & Data Solutions at BlackRock Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, mined pre- and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Notes: Literacy rates are based on population surveys which were not conducted on a regular basis and did not cover many developing countries. Download Data Set in Excel Apollo Hospitals Apollo Hospitals Map created by John Regan, MBA... View Details

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

self-employment incomes in both high and low capital industries are falling sharply compared with the wages that organizations pay workers, according to the researchers. Their data came from a number of sources, including US Census and American Community View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

While it’s not clear why the third payment didn’t show a similar bump, Greenwood notes markets tend to anticipate behavior ahead of an event. The stocks’ climb may have already been priced in. Several surveys of retail investors... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

fund.” The group surveyed 13 fund managers about 28 funds, and conducted qualitative interviews with six anchor investors. The paper was written by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School; Rob Zochowski,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

23 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

general management position, I need to make decisions utilizing the principles we learned on a daily basis. The course empowered me to do that with confidence. Paul Accornero International Commercial Director (MD) Asia Pacific & Americas Read more learner stories *... View Details

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

health care providers think value-based reimbursement will become their primary revenue model, NEJM Catalyst survey finds 42% of US health care providers think value-based reimbursement will become their primary revenue model, NEJM... View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

participants to ask questions and see other people also interacting with the presenter. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/glOfUOMYMIXCqiWsSiCd][/div] The live experience included interactions with six to 12 strangers. Before watching the video, participants took a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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