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- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
When all of the transactions were considered together, employment fell 1.4 percent—a statistically insignificant amount. Since this total includes jobs added when other firms are acquired by the bought-out firms, the researchers isolated... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
pioneering works, scholars now problematize in particular the isolation of the economy as a subject matter and economics as a discipline. They have interrogated the relationship of the discipline of economics with the subject it studies... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
Koning. Isolating the effects of A/B testing Using data available publicly through the website BuiltWith, the researchers identified companies that were up to eight years old that had installed A/B testing software. These tools enable... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
productive to first isolate the fundamental functions platforms perform, of which there are three: reducing search costs (this helps in matchmaking contexts: men and women, buyers and sellers, etc.); making audiences (this is essentially... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Loneliness, in the March edition of the journal Frontiers in Digital Health. The loneliness epidemic Even before the pandemic’s social distancing requirements isolated people in their homes, one January 2020 study found that three in five... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What is HBS START Week?
before section events really get going. What was your favorite START memory? Field Day – it was so fun to bond with our sections over events like Limbo and Dizzy Bat. What is your overall goal for START week? START is not an isolated... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
understand its component parts. [Frei outlines three components of trust—authenticity, logic, and empathy—in her TED Talk]. We can isolate whether or not you're building trust with your peers, with your employees, with your boss, with... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
from an increase in print subscriptions and print advertising revenue, and less so from an increase in digital subscription revenues.” To isolate the effects of digital paywall adoption on total revenue, the researchers used a technique... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
across the continuum of care. DreamworldVR Jean Jung, HSPH Mayank Aranke, HSPH Osaze Udeagbala Jay Lee Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up DreamworldVR is combating loneliness and helping to develop emotional and social intelligence for View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
isolate the issue of race, half the fake profiles were given names that, according to birth records, are common among whites, while half had names common among African Americans. "The choices you make as a manager can have a profound... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
business—it's difficult to isolate the influence of any given organization. That isn't to say that measuring large societal change should never be attempted. "It can be done, but it requires a longer time horizon and an effort to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
are on the same page. The final thing I’ll say: Remote companies have well-established processes where people are socializing and no one is feeling isolated and falling through the cracks. That’s really important right now, especially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
35th reunion at Dartmouth College. “People thanked me for telling their story,” he recalls. “There is so much stigma around addiction, and people don’t really share that they have this problem going on in their family. That creates a sense of View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
in competitive organizations to being one of the only ones in your team or organization with your identity.” That said, choosing to be a team’s token—a member who’s held up superficially as a symbol of diversity—can be isolating and hurt... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost