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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Protect and Pivot Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. MARKETING Tip: Tailor your brand stories to the new reality. Which types of brand stories should companies tell? After KFC was chastised by the U.K. Advertising View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact... View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

according to market, QuikTrip uses the same store layout everywhere, along with limited product variety. "The reduced complexity that results from these decisions leads to higher employee productivity and fewer errors," says Ton. "This View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

locations differ in their ability to support the frontier, but also due to standard agglomeration. Different industries use different aspects of the internet, and industries tend to agglomerate in some locations and not others. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

our identity proud. Eric Deng (MBA 2023) “Don’t rock the boat.” “Don’t make trouble.” “Keep your head down.” Growing up in Utah, where I was often the only one or one of a few that looked like me, these were the standard phrases and... View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

become great oaks. The companies that are spawned provide employment, pay taxes, and advance the standard of living—all actions that are great for America.” Missy Crisp, a Vassar graduate who earned an MBA at night from Hofstra University... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

standards and about dedication to one's career. There aren't many senior people in this field who will take the time to help younger people along, but Steve was exceptional in that regard. How have your priorities changed since 1974? In... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

to improve living standards for their huge and rapidly growing populations, will presumably look to production-for-export on a massive scale. Unfortunately, as Salter points out, this dynamic will create large amounts of excess capacity... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

inequality in the workplace. Tiffany Smith Tiffany Smith is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research explores how the bias of professionalism... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Economics and Psychology, Tufts University, 1978 On Leadership: “Set and meet high standards of integrity, performance, and... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

rules and norms and expectations.” A job interview is one circumstance that may benefit from asking more questions. For example, standard practice suggests that a potential new boss is expected to do the asking. But asking more questions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

want the selling of kidneys to be legal might be the following. Suppose you don't want to sell your kidney. The standard argument is that if we made selling kidneys legal, you would be just where you are now: You're not selling your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Accessed August 10, 2023. https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/. “FACT SHEET: Biden- Harris Administration Announces New Standards and Major Progress for a Made-in-America National Network... View Details

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

possible and return home. In the insular treaty port communities and mercantile mindset in which they lived, they held themselves to a different standard regarding the moral implications of the opium trade. “China traders were rational,... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

candidates and asked them to rank their top three choices. Some of these sets employed standard algorithms, which generally included only three women who ranked near the bottom of the list; others used fair-ranking algorithms, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is to harness a new accounting standard, as specified by the Financial Accounting View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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