Surveys - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Competitiveness at Risk

Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism;... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Mar 2012
Article

Choosing the United States

the past three decades, business activities have become increasingly mobile, and more and more countries have become viable contenders for them. But new data--including the results of an unprecedented survey of 10,000 Harvard Business... View Details

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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Field Course: Business of the Arts (BOTA)

may not be freely available. Conference Board Reports on key issues in business management and economics. Includes the surveys "Business Contributions to the Arts" and "Giving in Numbers". SMU DataArts
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01 Mar 2015
News

Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international resources and infrastructure... View Details

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Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency

by US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau. You may search this site for more surveys on the topic. Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency® -- A source of information on incentives and policies... View Details

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Leadership and Happiness - Course Catalog

to manage their levels of well-being and life satisfaction. Students will learn how to lead others in a way that increases happiness. Students will self-administer the best surveys on happiness, read some of the most influential modern... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

formulation. The interviews also revealed that compensation committees face a number of pressures to keep top executives' pay at a certain level. Not the least of these, says Lorsch, are surveys performed by compensation consultants.... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

25 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions. Ushahidid’s platform provides ease... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization

Enterprise - 2018 Deloitte Human Capital Trends A survey of business and HR leaders around the world compiled by Deloitte. View Details

20 Nov 2014
News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

educators, to strengthen education, rather than simply alleviating the symptoms of a weak system. “That’s really needed if America is going to lead in public education and business competitiveness,” says Rivkin. The alliance also conducted the first nationwide View Details

2010
Working Paper

The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk

We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

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: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Feb 2022
News

Hour by Hour

people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” HourWork also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying employees who leave a company and using that data to help businesses address issues that... View Details

05 Apr 2016
News

Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.

Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker realize “how little these... View Details

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

relied on surveys taken at two points: before the protest and after. Pons and Gethin also wanted to measure attitudes weeks before and weeks after the event, since they wondered: Would opinions be more likely to change while emotions were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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