Policy Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change that removed penalties for wrong answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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2.4 Disciplinary Process | MBA

Review Board (CRB); separate procedures apply for allegations under the Sexual Harassment or Other Sexual Misconduct policies and the Non-Discrimination and Anti-Bullying policies , as reflected in those... View Details

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

the new market leaders." Even if many things have to happen before fundamental organizational changes occur, it still leaves us with questions: Is this kind of change worth pursuing? If so, what View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together”, with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the critical need for businesses, individuals, policy makers, and... View Details

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Jeff Nelson

says. “For years, our mission had been to give all segments of society access to housing. Now we wondered, is home ownership a realistic goal for everyone? Are we helping people or setting them up to fail?” In his two-year rotation program, Jeff witnessed, and... View Details

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Funa Maduka

want to be loaded down with new policy ideas, but wanted to learn how to implement them, how to incent others to follow." "The section experience is management in a microcosm," says Funa. "You're in a classroom with... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

system with an annual budget of only $10 million, helping network members get what they need to succeed as microfinance institutions and change agents. Under Barry's leadership, the organization has also led the microfinance industry in... View Details

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

multidivisional enterprises that have diversified into related product lines. The present book aims to fill in this gap in the literature by adopting a coherent approach to this elusive subject. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54158... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided... View Details

03 Jul 2018
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Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

customers, and others. How will it affect the way policy is formulated and the manner in which decisions are made? To what extent will it determine who is to be hired and who is to be engaged as a customer or supplier? Is it worth the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Jun 2020
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Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49804 Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China By: Iyer, Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the policy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

jobs while re-credentialing herself as a nurse.” After high school, Mbanusi earned his Associates degree at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

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John Speer

retail worked.” But after weeks of studying comparable customer-loyalty programs in the United States, John and his team thought they had some solid ideas. They were wrong. “We were way off the mark,” John says. For example, the free-returns View Details

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Monne Williams

that you can't know where people are coming from just by looking at them. Demographics isn't enough. It's when you find out that someone wrote a policy paper on the issue, or came from a home with immigrant parents, that you begin to... View Details

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

here. But a principal effect of that trend as it relates to radical change in the industry is that, from a policy or social perspective, there’s going to have to be either incredible sacrifice or economic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

incentive design impacts store manager behavior and, consequently, retail performance. More specifically, we describe the shift in store manager behavior resulting from a change in incentives which, in part, altered the importance of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty statistics for the first time. He was moved by them. “The United States puts forward a model for... View Details

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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