Filter Results:
(3,092)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,092)
- People (5)
- News (588)
- Research (2,094)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (938)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,092)
- People (5)
- News (588)
- Research (2,094)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (938)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value
By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed at increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited... View Details
Keywords: Food Deserts; Food Access; Food Policy; Causal Inference; Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Government Administration
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 5389-18, October 2020.
- Web
Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
distress—requires setting priorities and moving beyond long lists of discrete recommendations. Creating an Economic Strategy: The Value Proposition The value proposition... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
that’s what I wanted to pursue for the summer,” said Kaelyn, who accepted an internship in strategic finance at Nature’s Fynd, a startup that created a new alternative protein. Adding value as a career switcher The MS/MBA curriculum... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
network they need. Careful integration is a key. Q: From the point of view of someone's career in the current economic climate, it would seem wiser to cultivate portable skills as opposed to company-specific skills. Based on your... View Details
- Research Summary
Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices
By: Stuart C. Gilson
Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
me hopeful. Q: How do people make decisions about these big economic questions? A: Economists have a very good way of thinking carefully—scientifically, you might say—about the mechanical effects of an View Details
- Research Summary
The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees
By: W. Earl Sasser
W. Earl Sasser, Jr., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and James L. Heskett complted a multi-firm study that provides further empirical verification of relationships established in their earlier examinations of 'breakthrough' service and the service profit chain.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
It may be time to think about who really creates value in your organization, starting with customers and employees. Harvard Business School professors W. Earl Sasser and James L. Heskett discuss their book, The View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 09 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China
- June 2010 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert Sheen
After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Valuation; Banking Industry; Shipping Industry; Germany
Esty, Benjamin C., and Albert Sheen. "Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships." Harvard Business School Case 210-058, June 2010. (Revised August 2021.)
- 04 Nov 2015
- HBS Seminar
Christian Fons-Rosen, Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics
- 2014
- Working Paper
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe and Susana Garcia-Robles
Venture capital (VC) investment has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, James Tighe, and Susana Garcia-Robles. "Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-024, October 2014.
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
countries side-by-side, exploring them from the 1850s up until the present day, when Chile’s economic strength seems to have surpassed Argentina’s—a reversal of fortune. The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile explores the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- October 25, 2022
- Article
Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business
By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan
Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to... View Details
Keywords: Sharing Economy; Innovation; Economic Growth; Poverty; Production; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Central America
Tiburcio, José A., Lino Miguel Dias, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 25, 2022).
- Web
Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
of capitalism with the full potential to meet social needs. The Solution: Creating Shared Value The next transformation of business thinking lies in the principle of shared value: creating economic View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
mostly fallow for a few decades: the role of morals in careers. Once a major area of research in the 1950s and 1960s, it has “receded in focus” since then, the authors note, even as these issues have arguably become even more relevant in a time of rapid View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- June 2024
- Article
Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal
By: Conor Hickey and Myles Allen
Mitigating short-term global warming is imperative, and a key strategy involves reducing atmospheric methane (CH4) due to its high radiative forcing and short lifespan. This objective can be achieved through methods such as oxidising methane at its source or... View Details
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Research; Measurement and Metrics
Hickey, Conor, and Myles Allen. "Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal." Art. 4043. Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 6 (June 2024).