Size - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

which guarantee and securitize mortgage loans on the secondary market. Those guidelines include the size of the loan (currently a maximum of $417,000 for a single family home in most US cities); the amount of home equity relative to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

way to make systemic reforms in the system that would ultimately address social justice and policy issues here and in developing countries. Frustrating, But Worth It Given that education is such an attractive industry in terms of size and... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

hotel, and push back a plan that threatened historic buildings around Grand Central Terminal. “In terms of size and scope, we’re the premier preservation organization in New York,” says Zuckerberg, who has been chair of the nonprofit’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

edge of innovation, and they can boost their reputations by supplying well-known U.S. firms. The market size of the U.S makes it an important target but, in addition, foreign companies often feel they have to crack the U.S. market in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Dec 2019
News

A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and medium- sized businesses in... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of major banks in many other countries... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

At a session on information and prices, HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty presented a paper detailing how the price of an unusual security could be used to extract the market's best guess of the size and basis for the resolution of... View Details

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

then develop the case for pursuing this opportunity. Be pragmatic, not just idealistic. Transformational solutions are appealing, but they can leave people overwhelmed by the size of the problem. Incremental work, on the other hand,... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

thresholds for quantity discounts, extend credit to long-standing customers, and price smaller pack sizes more aggressively. In tough times, price cuts attract more consumer support than promotions such as sweepstakes and mail-in offers.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

consolidation strategies are wrong. In an era that is witnessing technological discontinuities, managers must not focus so much on size as a goal but rather on the development of new business models that help them compete. View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

second piece of legislation, the Small Business Jobs Act (SBJA), temporarily continued the increased guarantees and fee waivers, and permanently increased SBA loan size limits from $2 million up to $5 million; the maximum microloan grew... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

impact. Nonetheless, boards have been focusing strictly on monetary rewards as an incentive for CEOs to achieve desired results, tying the returns that go to stockholders to the size of the chief executive's paycheck. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract—Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team-the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO-doubled during this... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

firms and reports on a survey of the structure and staffing of more than 600 headquarters in Europe, USA, Japan, and Chile. It explores the extent to which corporate headquarters are contingent on size of the company, corporate strategy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

size of its welfare state and perception of new immigrant behavior. First, the welfare state today in Europe is larger, and native-born individuals may perceive immigrants as being net consumers of public goods. While it is true that,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

A: We found that it was the relative percentage of their money that people spend on others—rather than the absolute amount—that predicted their happiness. In the bonus study described above, for example, the size of the bonus that people... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

the role third parties play was inadequate in describing the processes at work in the highly specialized CEO market. The size of the candidate pool, for instance, is often underestimated. If you believe most search firms, in fact, it's a... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

in 1979, had a budget of only $2 million, and many of Barry's peers questioned her decision to leave one of the world's most prestigious institutions to join a much smaller player in the global economy. "On day one I had to order my own pencils," she recalls with a... View Details

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female performance on math tests, better performance of women’s FIFA... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

led by Peter Barrett, PhD, faculty chair, and an advisory board of seasoned business and biotechnology leaders who serve as one-on-one mentors and provide strategic direction during the fellows' program year. “Since joining the Blavatnik Fellowship five years ago, the... View Details

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