Surveys - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

research firm Civic Science, which conducts surveys placed on news and entertainment websites. The research survey began on April 2, 2015, the day Indiana’s governor signed the revised version of the RFRA.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

20 Apr 2021
News

Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance

Photo courtesy of Hinge Photo courtesy of Hinge With vaccines more readily available and the world inching toward recovery, Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge, predicts singles will be getting serious about dating. View Details

Keywords: Private Households; Personal Services

2008
Working Paper

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III

This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of the industrial organization of this industry, namely those available... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Mergers and Acquisitions; Revenue; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Rank and Position; Competition; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; United States

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21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

relative availability of credit is the Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS). This survey shows that demand for small business loans tightened significantly in 2009 and began loosening slightly... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

Web

Mintel Reports | Baker Library

In person access only Harvard Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available Visitors In person access only Additional Information Create a profile to download the consumer survey databook, add sections of reports to a presentation,... View Details

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew Research... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

publishes summaries of working papers written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2017: Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear

wanted to create going into Bootcamp. Our advisors, however, really pushed us to dive deep into customer discovery, surveys and experiments to truly understand the problem we were trying to solve. In talking with potential customers and... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

themselves, and develop a communal approach to software platforms to support office operations. In addition, the committee will conduct a survey of clubs to improve its understanding of their successes and challenges. The ultimate goal of... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Starting Lineup: Power Plays

Venture Competition, is currently in use by more than 1,500 companies. Callida Energy CEO Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Founded 2013 Reducing energy waste in commercial buildings and improving comfort through app-based surveying and learning... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World Management Survey (WMS), a huge... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Research Resources | Baker Library

Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Division of Research], 1952. Full text available. This report is based on a 1952 study by the Harvard Business School Division of Research surveying the demand for women... View Details

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why functional groups, such as risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf Measuring Teamwork in Health Care... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Jun 2001
News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

Business Age,” is a survey of the library’s manuscript collections that pertain to women’s history. Launched in 1999 with support from Rysia de Ravel (MBA ’83) and a grant from the Harvard University Women’s Matching Fund, the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

"Research" will limit the results to recent market, industry and sector reports. Also, a good source for news. S&P NetAdvantage S&P Industry Surveys cover industry trends, forecasts, major players and market... View Details

March 1, 2022
Article

Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public

By: Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi and Omar Isaac Asensio

In seeking to understand how to protect the public information sphere from corruption, researchers understandably focus on dysfunction. However, parts of the public information ecosystem function very well, and understanding this as well will help in protecting and... View Details

Keywords: Reports; Surveys; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Use and Leverage