Administration of Economic Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

culminated during the January term in Italy, where students learned about the roots of capitalism and how the renowned House of Medici devised accounting standards still used today. “The original View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen Abstract—We investigate the relation between the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Health Care Health Care February 2015 Supplement The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris In early 2009, the Obama View Details

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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

arts and culture; business at the base of the pyramid; CSR; community and economic development; education; environment; human services; impact investing; international relief; nonprofit consulting; and... View Details

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

transition is urgently required if more young people are to launch successful careers that will lead to economic security. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate, called foundational or human skills.” Even as unemployment... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2019
Working Paper

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program... View Details

Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India

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21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

understand what's going on. As a consequence, if management doesn't understand, the board doesn't understand. Rakesh Khurana teaches The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance elective in the MBA View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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Japan - Global

studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. Since opening, the JRC has supported most of the Japan-focused cases and HBS research projects on the region. Location... View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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Other Student Organizations - MBA

perspectives that these individuals bring to every academic, professional, and social setting – and we seek to create more space for their voices to be heard and celebrated. In pursuit of this goal, we aim to work closely with the View Details

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

company that resorted to inhumane means of reducing its workforce, according to a trio of case studies co-written by Cynthia Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

can amplify them and give them greater reach. Whether you experience a physical, learning, mental, sensory, or developmental disability, or are the caretaker of someone with a disability, you have a place and a voice here! We aim to work... View Details

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

could access the resources of innovation and entrepreneurship. These include a wide range of courses and programs; maker, media, and AR/VR studios; experienced mentors; and opportunities for funding. Over... View Details

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

findings are stark, and they hold true across 24 countries. "There are very few things, that we know of, that have such a clear effect on gender inequality as being raised by a working mother," says Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Program for Research in Markets & Organizations PRIMO Alumni Profiles 2ms Jo Ellery Harvard College, Class of 2021; current HBS... View Details

February 2005 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Rohithari Rajan

With liberalization of India's economy and the opening up of markets to foreign multinationals such as Procter & Gamble, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever--Hindustan Lever Ltd. (HLL)--was under pressure to grow revenues and profits. HLL had a long and stellar record of... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Market Entry and Exit; Business Subsidiaries; Revenue; Profit; Market Participation; Programs; Rural Scope; Poverty; Multinational Firms and Management; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; India