State Level - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around... View Details

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

ephemeral state of entropy we live in, called Digital." We're left with impression that changes in leadership required for success in the fast-moving information economy will be achieved with limited discomfort. And yet we are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

system generates such unequal access to opportunities for people, which leads to dysfunctions in the system and lack of meritocracy. I asked myself why this is happening and looked into the idea that we’re terrible at measuring the things that really matter: the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently.... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

A Growing Drumbeat

students were waitlisted. In April, Inc. magazine cited the class as one of its top ten entrepreneurship courses for 2011. Those feeling left out by the buzz on campus, take heart: Last year saw the launch of the Alumni New Venture Contest, which recognizes the high... View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Jun 2005
News

Full Circle

what I was doing did not match up well with my core, with my soul,” he recalls. “At some level I’d lost my ability to read my moral compass. That created a certain restlessness and discontent with my life.” With the encouragement of his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; veterinary; MBA applicable; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
News

Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers

unemployed job hunters who attended targeted group coaching got jobs that paid the same or more than their last jobs. When networking, try to meet with people who are two levels higher than you are. The person in that role is in a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

organizations. With more than 18,000 members, Allen’s congregation is the largest in the state of New York; the 2,500-seat Greater Allen Cathedral, the organization’s centerpiece and the site of Reed’s office, regularly fills to capacity... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

those on the receiving end. However, our data do suggest a high level of psychological engagement that we did not anticipate based on conventional wisdom and our reading of prior academic literature. When we put these patterns together... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2025
News

Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

that Blacks are entitled to some form of financial reparations, and I'm asking all of you to support it. So there is a level of optimism that I still have. I'm very guarded, relative to how effusive I will be, relative to, View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

consideration to how they deliver important information during earnings calls. Between The Lines The research team studied 11,436 conference call transcripts by 4,540 firms based in 41 different countries outside the United States between... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2019
News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

businesses in the region, including meat processor OSI Group are finally rethinking their approach to sustainability by starting at the farming level and are no longer “agnostic” when it comes to climate change, said Nicole... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

added: "Predictive analytics could (provide) such specialized, repetitive solutions that society will become polarized into user niches that can no longer properly interact What a sad state of affairs." Philippe Gouamba... View Details