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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
come together for sustained, intensive discussion of the problems we're passionate about," said Robin Ely, following the meeting. "I felt like a kid in a candy store: no matter where I turned, I saw brilliant, thoughtful people... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
avoid listing the very best schools as their first choice. After all, only kids with priority at that school were likely to get into that school anyway. But not everyone was savvy. Some 19 percent of applicants did list over-demanded... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
patterns and reduce your monitoring staff by 25 percent, but it’s better to explain how the public will get through rush-hour faster and how they will be able to pick up their kids more quickly,” says Weiss. In addition, he says, “city... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
reality is that some days you need to drive your kid to school.” So, what’s the alternative? Beshears teamed with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in 2015 to test different ways to help 2,508... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Wilkerson is an award-winning journalist. Tatum, a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
way, I believe we're kidding ourselves. Is it likely that somebody who isn't a financial expert can show up six times a year and really understand Citigroup? Q: In an attempt to head off the next financial crisis, should Congress... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
programs to support children and education—but they're often not coordinated, resulting in gaps and redundancies in service. This a fertile area for collaboration. "What you see in some places are business, civic, and education leaders partnering to create a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
opinion is that the Administration should be candid and recognize that social security is a TAX used to fund a basic retirement benefit—the pension equivalent of food stamps. Higher income retirees should not receive a social security benefit. We need to stop View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying retail shopper behavior for 20 years. Teach a kid to hammer, and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
And—oh, yes—Rovell was just a kid in his teens. Nevertheless, he launched a business-of-sports talk show on Northwestern University's student radio station, WNUR. His "producer" (actually, a roommate) aggressively pursued... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Brandless be the final nail in the coffin? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-011 Kids & Company: Entering the U.S. : In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
help their families cope. “Even rituals that may seem annoying or kids complain about and ask why they have to do them are centering for families,” Norton says. “People need the familiar things that bond them even more during this... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second most popular article, View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
"My goal is to get athletes—and kids who are thinking about becoming athletes—to start thinking of themselves as businesses and not just athletes," he said. Sherman took the opportunity, as he has in previous public forums, to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
programs or urban life, opened a highly successful gym for inner-city kids at risk; he refused to be daunted by his lack of expertise and decided to simply "go for it." As these and other examples from the authors' research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
community. That's been my passion point. When you go into work in those environments there are remarkably good people there. But the question in my mind is always, how can we get better? A culture of continuous improvement to help the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
people with young kids all have very different expectations. Q: So what started as an aggregation of consumer reviews is now blossoming into much more of a full-service type environment. Is there the potential there for some kind of bias... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-049.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbsolute Return for Kids Harvard Business School Case 309-036 Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace