Surveys - Publications - Faculty & Research

Feb 2013
Survey

Competitiveness at a Crossroads

Second in the series of U.S. Competitiveness surveys, Harvard Business School gleaned responses from nearly 7,000 alumni and more than 1,000 members of the general public. The survey not only provides an updated view of the U.S. business... View Details

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Geography in the Advanced Search. Nexis Uni – more access to thousands of local newspapers. Go to Menu > All Sources> Limit by Category > News and Jurisdiction. Citizen Satisfaction Surveys Google search... View Details

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

departments, intensive care units, and medical/surgical units. We collected survey data from nurses in those work areas. Measures: To measure the program's impact, we collected pre and post survey data on... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

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Consumer confidence

Where can I find information on consumer confidence and sentiment? Conference Board: From the "Economy, Strategy & Fiance page," select "Consumer Dynamics." Surveys of Consumers: Current and... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

proposed enhancing the range of services provided. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Roslyn Payne (MBA ’70), focused on defining club best practices, key challenges, and governance issues. Almost three-quarters of the 106 club and association presidents... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Manufacturing: statistics (US)

Where can I find statistics on manufacturing in the United States? US Census Bureau: Annual Survey of Manufacturers For more data sets, see the Manufacturing Data from the US Census View Details

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Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

size. Look at the American Community Survey for granular data relating to employment, transportation to work, housing, expenditures, etc. US Census: Business & Economy - A wide range of variables that provide insight... View Details

Lewis H. Brown

Under Brown’s leadership, Johns-Manville became the world’s largest producer of asbestos building materials, insulation, and allied products. Brown instituted both collective bargaining and the eight-hour day/forty hour week for management. Brown also began the... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

That’s actually good news because it’s harder to change people’s taste preferences than it is beliefs,” says Minor, joking that he’s been trying to change his daughter’s food tastes for years. Minor used a survey pool of 7,000... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

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Music & Activism: Market Research Resources

scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates. US Census Data provides to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data come from many censuses and surveys including... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

practices—which Fuller defines as employers’ tendency to raise the degree requirements for job applications. More than 60 percent of companies in the study’s survey admitted to using college degrees as a baseline for hiring, both to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Web

Digital Transformation - HBS Online

Connext conference, HBS faculty events, and HBS Online Community Yes No *Considered more impactful than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better... View Details

Paul Fireman

Reebok was pegged as the fastest growing company in America from 1983-1987 by Fortune magazine, and in a 1987 survey by Forbes, Reebok was ranked as the most profitable of 880 companies. View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

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Annual IT expenditures by industry

Annual reported IT expenditures by U.S. industry and by type of IT expenditure. Information and Communication Technology Survey: Annual survey compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau that breaks out IT spending by industry and type of... View Details

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

permanently as of July 10. And almost half of owners surveyed in late June by the online business network Alignable said they lacked enough cash to get through one month and were taking in less than 50 percent of their pre-pandemic sales.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

01 Jun 2004
News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

model does not work as well for Executive Education alumni. The Survey Subcommittee, chaired by Cathy Benko (MBA 1989), has worked on developing questions designed to identify specific ways to help Executive Education alumni stay in touch... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

Syrian communities was phase one of a large-scale survey Fabbe conducted to gain insight into the effects of the war on those who had fled from the conflict at home. Throughout 2016, Fabbe’s research team conducted interviews with more... View Details

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

way to measure the sometimes subjective qualities of what makes a company socially responsible. For that, the researchers relied on survey measures from the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD business school in Switzerland,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

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