Publications

2008
Working Paper

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

By: Peter Tufano

We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness

2001
Chapter

Your Contribution Counts! An Empirical Analysis of the Decision to Support Solar Energy

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

School and strengthened its role in the University. Furthermore, by building the pipeline of faculty, launching new global research offices and centers, increasing financial aid to attract students from diverse backgrounds, fostering One... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

December 1985
Article

Gender and Sex-Role Attributes as Predictors of Utilization of Natural Support Systems During Personal Stress Events

By: Timothy Butler, Steven Giordano and Steven Neren

Keywords: System; Health; Gender

October 20, 2023
Article

How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

By: Michael W. Toffel

Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions. Companies... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations

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18 Apr 2023
Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

recommendations, and after the cofounders graduated, Mbanusi continued their work as a copresident. One notable outcome was the creation of the First-Generation Students Club, which aims to foster a View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

A new chair has been established by André R. Jakurski (MBA '73) to support research in the area of global finance. Professor Kenneth A. Froot will be the first incumbent of the... View Details

June 2017
Teaching Note

Organizing for Performance: Four Vignettes

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard

Teaching Note for HBS No. 117-062. View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization; Span Of Control; Resource Allocation

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Article

Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan

We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis

March 30, 2022
Article

To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work

By: Lauren C Howe, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Jochen I. Menges

With more and more people quitting, leaders need to find new ways to boost retention. One under-recognized way to keep employees on board is to give them the flexibility and resources they need to pursue their out-of-work passions. Drawing on their research, the... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Employees; Retention; Interests; Work-Life Balance; Human Resources; Strategy

April 2014
Article

Can an 'Ethical' Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz

A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is considering an application for a large commercial... View Details

30 Mar 2022
News

To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work

How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions.... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

HBS Fund Supports Core Priorities Including Financial Aid

all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing demand for need-based fellowships, which nearly 50... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line

sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a... View Details

24 Jul 2013
News

Pro-Baby, but Stingy With Money to Support Them

2002
Book

The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism

By: Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin

Keywords: Economy; Failure; Economic Systems

2024
Working Paper

Migration Fear and Minority Crowd-Funding Success: Evidence from Kickstarter

By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr, Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz

We study racial biases on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009-2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The racial funding gap... View Details

Keywords: Crowdfunding; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Immigration; Public Opinion