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  • 27 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

  • 2022
  • Article

Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment
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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
  • Research Summary

Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro
We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details
  • Career Coach

Matt Wood

Matt is excited to help students drive change within social enterprise, impact investing, and consulting. Matt can provide advice on how to navigate social impact recruiting, how to craft an effective... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Kamya Jagadish

Kamya wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the social impact space. Having worked in public, private, and nonprofit sectors, Kamya can provide insights into how job experiences differ across the... View Details
  • December 2023
  • Article

Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals

By: Kira Schabram, Matt Bloom and DJ DiDonna
Sabbaticals have seen an exponential growth in adoption over the last two decades and are ascribed extensive benefits by employers and employees alike. Little is known, however, about how individuals spend their time or how their experiences impact them after they... View Details
Keywords: Sabbatical; Personal Development and Career; Employees
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  • July 2010
  • Other Article

Clusters and Entrepreneurship

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This article examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given region-industry.... View Details
Keywords: Economics
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  • March 2007 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms and Katherine Miller
Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business History; Race; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Saint Louis
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  • July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Two-Sided Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time that employees spend idle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Joseph B. Fuller

    Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

    • Career Coach

    Didier Dumerjean

    Didier is excited to brainstorm with students seeking to build portfolio careers different ways to architect a diversified portfolio that centers impact. Having held a wide variety of roles across sectors and domains, including economic development, DEI, and View Details
    • 11 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking
    • 18 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

    on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 18 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 18

    role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special interest to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

    classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital across markets. Upon the arrival of a large supply shock, prices of risk in the directly impacted asset class... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

    By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Clusters; Performance; Economics
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