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- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
trends. Survey data, data from the Small Business Administration, and anecdotal information exist, but these are blunt tools, offering a limited snapshot of supply and demand, often with years of delay. Lack of quality data means that... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Authors:Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper surveys the formation and development of the insurance business in Brazil. It describes its origins, from colonial times and the imperial era to recent events.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
Abstract—This article looks back at the publication and influence of Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles published in 1913. It surveys some of the key ideas in the book and explains the reasons why it resonated with a variety of people,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
request that the company conduct anonymous surveys about employee engagement and the company culture, and then ask that the data be shared in raw form, "not the chewed and digested and spun form." He also suggests urging board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom Steenburgh View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive.” They have also written three Executive Summaries to accompany their proprietary research, Women of Color in Business: Cross-Generational Survey ©. Bonita Stewart Photo credit: PagerDuty About the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
issue? A Catalyst survey of over 4,100 full-time employed men and women who graduated from 26 top MBA programs worldwide (12 in the United States) from 1996 to 2007 showed that the women just out of business school started in lower-level... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Dubra, and Alejandro Lagomarsino Abstract—We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?Ntt=9781111972301&N=16+4294922453&Ntk=P_Isbn13 Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:In Handbook of the Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
purpose and use. Anteby relies on observations at retirees' homes, archival data, interviews, and surveys to understand how plant workers and managers make sense of this tacit practice. He argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
reading preferences? We know you’re busy, so we'll be brief. Take our survey Whether finance is a necessary precondition for development is obviously important for developing countries. It’s equally applicable to policymakers elsewhere... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
216-079 The Role of the Chief Financial Officer This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Christopher Chapman, Anthony Hopwood and Michael Shields. Elsevier, 2008 Abstract This chapter surveys the history, evolution, and current status of accounting systems and practices in India. Tracing the roots of Indian accounting systems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
at HBS and Francesca Gino at Carnegie Mellon, is the development of an instrument to assess learning organizations. We've been developing and testing a survey to help organizations better reflect on how they are doing in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Project, Bucala and four Harvard students surveyed parents, teachers, and students to determine customer demand and gain a clearer understanding of educational needs when building their app. With a human-centered approach to design, they... View Details
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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA
admitted to the Master of Science program only. Tuition & Financial Aid The Financial Aid and Scholarship Board uses the annual Cost of Attendance to determine financial aid awards. Amounts are based on student surveys of direct and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation... View Details