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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
- Web
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
does the rise of China mean for Africa ? Are we seeing a new cold war emerging in the Sahelian region. What impact will demographics have on Africa's place in the world. We will deal old industries like energy , finance and... View Details
- May 2020
- Article
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies
Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn. "Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 1095–1151.
- March 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms and Katherine Miller
Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business History; Race; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Saint Louis
Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business School Case 807-145, March 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
cities—Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, New York, and Washington, DC—to see how hundreds of thousands of street blocks changed over time. By cross-referencing the Streetchange values with other demographic data, including education, income,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
(Italy), demographic and entrepreneurial problems (Japan), or excessive consumption and debt problems (USA). Q: One of the surprises I had in reading the book was your bullishness on Russia. Why the optimism? A: I am bullish on Russia... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
our customer base with traditional marketing cuts, you don't come up with a traditional demographic distribution. The thing that our customers have in common is an attitude: they are confident people who care about how they look. They are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
female. We’re very conscious about further broadening the demographic for our comic books and the Marvel business in general. Did you read comic books as a kid? No, not really. I am an individual who does consumer-product turnarounds.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
coupled with any number of other data sources to perform unique and more detailed analyses on factors like demographic disparities, political alignment, or population density in relation to local COVID-19 policies. What’s next for the... View Details
- March 2022
- Article
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance
By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst and Yuhai Xuan
We explore gender differences in performance in a comprehensive sample of venture capital investments in the United States. Investments by female venture capital investors have significantly lower success rates than investments by their male colleagues when controlling... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst, and Yuhai Xuan. "Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57, no. 2 (March 2022): 485–513.
- September 2020
- Article
Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists
By: Kyle Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani and Dashun Wang
COVID-19 has not affected all scientists equally. A survey of principal investigators indicates that female scientists, those in the ‘bench sciences’ and, especially, scientists with young children experienced a substantial decline in time devoted to research. This... View Details
Myers, Kyle, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang. "Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 9 (September 2020): 880–883.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African... View Details
Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17184, June 2011.
- November 1990 (Revised August 1996)
- Background Note
Sampling and Statistical Inference
An introduction to sampling and statistical inference that covers the main concepts (confidence intervals, tests of statistical significance, choice of sample size) that are needed in making inferences about a population mean or percent. Includes discussion of problems... View Details
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Sampling and Statistical Inference." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-092, November 1990. (Revised August 1996.)
- September 1989
- Case
Steve Shirley
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Traces the career development of a well-known British entrepreneur who, as a young girl, was forced to flee the Nazi's occupation of Central Europe. Details her early work experiences in the heavily male dominated workplace of post-war Britain and follows the... View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Steve Shirley." Harvard Business School Case 490-004, September 1989.
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of Arabia and the East to the customers of the... View Details
- 08 Feb 2022
- News
What’s Next for Nigerian Production Studio EbonyLife Media?
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) As an engagement manager at McKinsey, Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) often found herself in need of an afternoon energy boost. But caffeinated, sugary drinks left her feeling even more depleted, so she swapped in a quick... View Details