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  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Laura Huang discusses her book during a virtual event hosted by the Books@Baker author series at Harvard Business School. “Being the prom queen means you shouldn’t care if you haven’t taken the typical path... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

senior research fellow Laura L. Nash are conducting for a forthcoming book on the meaning and choices behind the success of high contributors. Success that endures, they are discovering, stems from four particular sources that are often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Book Review

Review of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, by Kevin Kruse

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
One Nation under God provides a powerful and timely creation story for conservative public religion in postwar America. It contributes to a growing field of historical scholarship on corporate funding for free enterprise politics and religious interpretations of... View Details
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  • 13 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

Tempura Women having a heart attack are less likely to die if their doctor is also female, a new study shows. How much less likely? When treated for a heart attack by men, the risk for women goes up 1.5 percent. That means roughly one in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Books

turn, moving ideas on new paths to market and perhaps even publishing research to enhance industry knowledge will provide new and important ways for companies to realize the value of their discoveries. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) Artful... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • News

Why Latin America Needs the Private Sector More Than Ever

  • 08 Jan 2021
  • News

Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say

  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

lives we must continue to push for more." But Mal Watlington poses perhaps the most challenging question: "The history of philosophy is filled with great thinkers who advise us to seek balance in life, yet the history of the world appears to be driven View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mention the words religion and business in one breath, and chances are good that someone will take offense. It's a common conviction within most Western societies that the two do not and should not be mixed—ever. Yet when Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

average driver out of their preferred shift is as bad as cutting their weekly earnings by more than 5 percent. For the California drivers that we study, the ability to start or stop working at any moment and the flexibility to change... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology
  • September 2015
  • Book Review

Review of Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country, by Andrew B. Arnold

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
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  • June 27, 2017
  • Article

Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get

By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
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  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

vasilchenko The odds investors face when deciding which startup to back are long enough to make any self-respecting poker player toss in their cards. “Most investors know that when they write a $50,000 check they have a 98 percent chance of never seeing that money... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters

approaches work? I think the answer will be a hybrid model, with different options for different viewers. What’s next in media? “The continued rise of on-demand consumption, as exemplified by the Netflixes and Spotifys of the world, which... View Details
Keywords: Laura Martin (MBA 1983) , entertainment and internet analyst, Needham & Company
  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

  Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2007
  • Comment

Comments on "How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development, and Use the Results to Guide Policy," by Theodore H. Moran

By: Laura Alfaro
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  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace